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Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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Re: Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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> I find it alarming that a scientific organization has rules that restrict free speech using such vague, subjective language. Feminism has always been a sexist power movement, and the natural outcome of that is always authoritarian social policy. At it's core, feminism is about the sole focus on accruing benefits and status for one sex (or gender, depending on who you ask). Feminism fights for women's rights, but no…

Could you please follow the guidelines more closely? > Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. > Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Additionally, this is a pattern with the account that needs to change: > Please don't use Hacker News primarily for politica…

I believe that I followed the guidelines:

- The topic of discussion was feminism, its application to institutions, and the consequences of that. I didn't introduce any topic.

- This post is directly related, and discusses how the impacts observed in the article extend from the philosophical basis of the movement and its long-term choices about which political battles to engage in.

- The post itself, and subsequent ones, were upvoted.

- The only fact that was contested was the status of men as a minority at university, which I provided a citation for.

- My post was direct, and used plain language for its points, but was not uncivil.

As far as I can tell, you're utilizing the code of conduct to empower a minority trying to censor my speech for political reasons to shut down discussion.

You are of course free to engage in politically motivated censorship as a private website, but I'd suggest you enumerate what you believe I did wrong instead of hiding behind vague allegations.

Vague allegations of violating decorum, sans factual refutation or even a challenge on the substance of my post, are the tools of a tyrant.

Re: Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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This is a glorious example of where the truth is hated simply because it’s inconvenient and utterly fails to support the sociopolitical narrative.

The reaction of the far-leftists to evidence like this is what has pushed me clear out of the left and into centrism. I will never become a conservative (that philosophy has even more patently bankrupt ideas it still desperately clings to), but I cannot consider myself “of the left” anymore. I simply cannot abide those levels of toxicity and religious-like ideology against which any dissent is heresy to be punished and crushed.

Re: Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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> I find it alarming that a scientific organization has rules that restrict free speech using such vague, subjective language. Feminism has always been a sexist power movement, and the natural outcome of that is always authoritarian social policy. At it's core, feminism is about the sole focus on accruing benefits and status for one sex (or gender, depending on who you ask). Feminism fights for women's rights, but no…

> If you're part of feminism in an academic context, you're part of a majority power movement, which routinely denigrates and attacks the minority gender in blatant violation of Title IX. Are you saying men are "the minority gender"? What planet do you live on? People who are academics are still part of the general population.

There are more women than men on Earth.

Re: Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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Remember a week ago when this site scoured a public GitHub repo to ensure a woman physicist wasn't getting more credit than she was due? Imagine having to conduct yourself in your professional life as though you were under persistent threat of audit by some know-nothings if you stuck your head up too high. I would go insane.

Or you know, work hard and have integrity by not taking undue credit or unfair favoritism so that any audit by "know-nothings" (?) becomes fruitless. The reason for the "audit" is that looking closer at stories like this very often reveals a hidden truth: it's made up fluff to push an agenda.

Re: Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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I think the single most interesting result from this whole thing is that there is near equal representation of both men and women in the law profession. I wonder why that is? What was counted as a person in a "Law profession"? Where support staff and secretaries included? If it was just lawyers, what are they doing right to get equal representation that everyone else does wrong?

It is an interesting question, through I think I suspect the answer has to do with the values that profession provides to the employee. In many studies we see a gender difference in men valuing high pay over other aspects in work place, and women valuing social respect and a feeling of helping more than high pay. The legal profession, and I suspect pro-bono lawyers in particular, provide tends to a value of respect and being helpful, while high profile cases brings in the high pay. It would not surprise me if men and women would give very different answer in surveys on why they entered the legal profession.

Re: Why Are Women Under-Represented in Physics?

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I'm pretty amazed as well, honestly. I think people get too emotional when you even discuss this topic. I may disagree, I may even be offended, but so what. Downvoting to oblivion, blocking, banning dissenting opinions is literal censorship. If you disagree with me, write a response that shows how dumb I am and then move on with your life. That said, any hints I see at trying to force an equality of outcome at the ex…

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