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Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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How is it not stereotyping to assume that women are weaker than men?

Because sexual dimorphism is real, but it isn't as simple to apply that to things that can be affected by society and culture.

I'm glad you agree that sexual dimorphism is real.

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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Oh stop it already. This gendermainstream bs is getting pushed out because there is a agenda behind it.

Genders are in fact different, its nature its good that way and it should stay that way. But there is a open agenda that is out to make everybody equal. And I am not speaking of equality in a rights sense like PAST feminism was about and reached its goal in the west. These people can not stop the see sexism everywhere but its in fact only nature everywhere.

Genders are different and I really hope they stay different and will not artificially turned onto a weirdo sauce of people who get a kick out of "I am not 'defined' by gender roles" but ultimately become unhappy. You can not have a formula of what 'should be' and expect it to work for 2 very very different kinds of people.

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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I dont see apache helicopters mentioned anywhere, which makes me doubt this works rigor.

We're here for a civil and substantive discussion, and this kind of trolling is not that. Please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thats not trolling, thats a humorous jab at the fact they were too eager to draw sweeping conclusions based on a, while promising if fine tuned, shotgun methodology to classify gender, but since you were so quick to shout out troll, there, i spellt it out for you.

Im glad atleast some folks find the post funny.

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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I dont see apache helicopters mentioned anywhere, which makes me doubt this works rigor.

As in "She Apache helicoptered him in the face"?

"along with his heart, she stole his last remaining shilling. But he should have known better than to surrender his heart to an apache attack helicopter" more like

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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post #151
post #146

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Because sexual dimorphism is real, but it isn't as simple to apply that to things that can be affected by society and culture.

I'm glad you agree that sexual dimorphism is real.

Of course, it doesn't explain everything about sexism though. You're basically making an appeal to nature fallacy about the roles of women in media.

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're here for a civil and substantive discussion, and this kind of trolling is not that. Please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Thats not trolling, thats a humorous jab at the fact they were too eager to draw sweeping conclusions based on a, while promising if fine tuned, shotgun methodology to classify gender, but since you were so quick to shout out troll, there, i spellt it out for you. Im glad atleast some folks find the post funny.

> ... were too eager to draw sweeping conclusions based on a, while promising if fine tuned, shotgun methodology to classify gender

I'm not sure exactly what this means, but you didn't say this—you said something deliberately inflammatory on an already controversial topic. We need commenters not to do that here because it sparks tedious flamewars by which our intellectual curiosity (the reason this site exists) is decidedly unsatisfied.

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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This whole story is sexist. Any scientific study that concludes anything other than 100% behavioral sameness between men and women must have been done by Nazis. /s

Please stop breaking the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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Unfortunately, every single difference of any significance is often took to be sexist and (of course) wrong sexist. Why are the top 100 chess players men? Sexism. Why are there more male than female programmers? Sexism. In non-romance movies, why are there more male leads? Sexism. There is legitimate wrongful sexism, but they aren't usually found in first world countries. It's as if we ever agreed there was a signifi…

Right - there's no wrongful sexism in first world countries and there is no difference in the messages males and females are given during their upbringing about how they should behave in society. Also, family courts make perfectly fair decisions. /s

> Right - there's no wrongful sexism in first world countries

I don't think you read my comment, because it disagrees with that statement.

Re: Gender and verbs across 100K stories: a tidy analysis

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Unfortunately, every single difference of any significance is often took to be sexist and (of course) wrong sexist. Why are the top 100 chess players men? Sexism. Why are there more male than female programmers? Sexism. In non-romance movies, why are there more male leads? Sexism. There is legitimate wrongful sexism, but they aren't usually found in first world countries. It's as if we ever agreed there was a signifi…

Actually there is a very good biological explanation for why this is the case: men are more varied than women. Because until the modern era men were expendable and the victors impregnated the women for the next generation. http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm

I don't understand how that theory would make women less varied.

Successfully carrying, birthing, and raising the next generation depends almost entirely on the mother.

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