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Re:An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Fo... by Retra on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:38PM (#9102582)
>"For example, take children of age ~7. Boys love playing with cars; girls do like them a bit too, but it's pretty clear they prefer simulating social interactions, specially dolls talking."

Bullshit. Do you have a source for this, or are you just unaware of how bigoted this is? It is not 1950. I am not going to agree that "girls like dolls and boys like trucks" without some reliable evidence. I'm sure if you marketed trucks to girls long enough and dolls to boys long enough, they would prefer the opposite just fine. Here's what you've been arguing:

    Left handed people prefer not to use scissors.

    Therefore, scissor manufacturers shouldn't bother to make left-handed scissors.

    This is in spite of the fact that, when asked *why* they 
    don't like scissors, they tell you "because they are 
    uncomfortable to use."
"Left handed people prefer not to use scissors because they are uncomfortable, therefore we should not make comfortable scissors for left handed people."

I'm sorry that I'm unwilling to jump on your circular logic bandwagon to defend your obvious bigotry.

PS> I'm still waiting for you to explain why women should be nurses and men should be doctors.

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Re:An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Fo... by darkmighty on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @05:20PM (#9103936)
If you don't believe boys and girls have some fundamental differences in personality maybe you need to get away from your monitor and interact with a child.

You can find countless studies of gender distinction in just about every physiological/psychological aspect, just google it. (your point about handedness is very poor since humans have bilateral symmetry, unlike genders; although some asymmetric brain specialization actually seems to create some fundamental differences in the way left handed people think)

If you didn't get this after all this discussion I'm afraid you never will.

>PS. I didn't suggest women would prefer nursing to clinician work, but it's fairly obvious they would prefer nursing over truck driving.

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Re:An Open Letter to Jessica Livingston About YC's Female Fo... by Retra on Tuesday February 24, 2015 @09:35PM (#9104949)
>If you didn't get this after all this discussion I'm afraid you never will.

No, I won't. I don't see any reason why I would want to 'get' something that is wrong. I'm not a stupid person.

> it's fairly obvious they would prefer nursing over truck driving.

"Fairly obvious" is your standard of truth? Oh, how rational and modern you are!

My mother is a truck driver, you know.

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