Is There Anything Good About Men?
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Is There Anything Good About Men?
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#2Harrowing.
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#3Is this supposed to be irony? What is this poorly written rambling doing on "Hacker News?"
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#4Is this supposed to be irony? What is this poorly written rambling doing on "Hacker News?"
"What seems to have worked best for cultures is to play off the men against each other, competing for respect and other rewards that end up distributed very unequally. Men have to prove themselves by producing things the society values."
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"Make something people want."
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#5Good stuff.
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#6Is this supposed to be irony? What is this poorly written rambling doing on "Hacker News?"
"What seems to have worked best for cultures is to play off the men against each other, competing for respect and other rewards that end up distributed very unequally. Men have to prove themselves by producing things the society values." = "Make something people want."
It also happens to tie in well with the WSJ article about Draper. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146 )
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#7I remember reading an article by a woman (I believe it was an early 1950s style feminist, ie, a pre-feminist) who laid out the problem very simply: Every field, even fields such as dressmaking, dancing, and interior design, have men at the top producing the greatest work. There are no female-dominated endeavors [1]. I think the (also ironic) title of the essay was "Woman is a failed sex" or something like that.
[1] No longer true. A few things, such as the book publishing business are almost completely ruled by women. Not that "rulership" is necessarily "achievement".
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#8Is this supposed to be irony? What is this poorly written rambling doing on "Hacker News?"
See the parts about attitudes toward risk, and the different businesses men and women tend to start.
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#9This article is more informative for what it implies about the writer/audience than its actual contents. It dabbles in a mess of pseudoscience (plus a generous dose of bolds and underlines) and ends up drawing an absurd amount of conclusions out of paragraphs smaller than a fist.
If anything, this article just plays on the what we already know/read to pander some trite preconceptions.
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#10This article is more informative for what it implies about the writer/audience than its actual contents. It dabbles in a mess of pseudoscience (plus a generous dose of bolds and underlines) and ends up drawing an absurd amount of conclusions out of paragraphs smaller than a fist. If anything, this article just plays on the what we already know/read to pander some trite preconceptions.
> It dabbles in a mess of pseudoscience
Given that this was an invited address given this year to the American Psychological Association, that seems a bold claim to make.