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Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Post by Mz »

jusben1369 wrote: post #85
ars wrote: post #31

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> screaming like a small child" perhaps is better. Why is that better? Have you never heard a little girl scream? It's not the same as the sound of a little boy. Let's not let political correctness wash away every difference that makes individuals special.

There are two ways to interpret this. One is the very literal level. Comparing a boys scream to a girls scream. This is what you and many others in this thread do. Is there anything unique about a little boy's scream over a little girl's scream? They're of slightly different pitches but there's hardly any real "difference" that makes one unique and in need of protection from being "washed away". So then you take a st…

You know, I was a military wife for many years. I have lived in places with big, ugly-assed spiders and poisonous snakes and scorpions and fun stuff like that. I grew up with a knife collection and my daddy taught me to shoot a gun by, say, age 8. I was a damn good shot as a kid. When I lived in Germany, I walked everywhere with an infant strapped to my chest and a backpack (often full of groceries) and a toddler often on my shoulders for the walk home. I had the respect of the soldiers, who knew what it was like to hike with a 60 lb. rucksack. A couple of years later, at a different duty station on another continent, I ran into a guy on base. I had no clue who he was, but he sure as hell remembered me hiking everywhere, doing the macho mom routine.

And I would scream like a little girl if I had to be faced with these tree lobsters -- just like I do when faced with flying, giant roaches in godforsaken swampy Georgia.

Give me a big assed spider or snake any day.

You can keep all your conjecture about what wusses little girls are supposed to be. I'm no wuss. Scream like a little girl conveys an evocative image of someone being shrill. The big difference between little girls and little boys is that little girls have the world's permission to express their feelings. Little boys are supposed to "not cry" and shit like that.

Also, while we are having this conversation: The correct interpretation of "Fights like a girl" is "So, they fight dirty?" Have you ever seen a cat fight in junior high? Gebus. Claws in your face and hair being torn out.

FYI: Statistically speaking, if you get into a knife fight with a man, you are highly likely to come away with minor defensive wounds on your arms because men are aggressive and will attack overhanded. Women don't want to cut you. They hold it low down, in a defensive position, and only cut you if you push them into the position of a cornered rat. The result: They gut you or stick it up under your ribs into a vital organ, like your heart. You are much more likely to die from being knifed by a woman than a man.

So maybe you should educate yourself a bit more about what really goes on in this world before you lecture people about promoting gender stereotypes. Because your bias is showing and it isn't pretty at all.

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Post by vacri »

Symbiote wrote: post #78
vacri wrote: post #72

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> You apparently don't actually know any little boys and girls because their screams sound nothing alike. Boys do manage a nice scream, but it doesn't sound the same, especially past the age of 3. I worked as a neurology technician for four years, doing tests on a patient load that was half paediatric, plenty of whom had an induced drowsy state to bring out epileptic activity. Drowsy kid, strange environment, strange…

[1] is a paper showing adults can distinguish boys' and girls' voices from age 4. The "mean fundamental frequency" is the same for boys and girls, but the "formant spacing" (differences in pitches of adjacent vowels, I think) was different. I can't find anything on children screaming. [1] http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentina_Cartei/publica...

differences in pitches of adjacent vowels

Screaming isn't particularly well-articulated :)

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Post by vacri »

gambiting wrote: post #81
vacri wrote: post #71

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there was no connotation of girls hating or loving insects. Just a sound. There was, however, the connotation that girls are prissy and easily scared.

Where? How? There is no such thing said anywhere - if you made such connection in your brain then well, it's your problem. It's a description of a sound, nothing more, nothing less.

You strike me as the kind of person who literally believes in everything a politician says, and is unaware of subtexts. If you think that all that people say is only the pure literal surface meaning of their words, than that is very much your problem, not mine.

Also, the trope is "run away, screaming like a little girl", not just "screaming like a little girl".

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Post by ars »

jusben1369 wrote: post #90
mania wrote: post #87

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So you say girls aren't more scared of rats than boys? They don't scream louder and longer when looking at a little mouse in the corner? They are all macho in your delusional worldview, right?

Can you think of any scientific reason to defend why that would be the case Mania? If not then it's not nature it's nurture. Which is my point. And somewhat ironic you used the term "macho" wouldn't ya say? :)

> Can you think of any scientific reason to defend why that would be the case

Yes. Because they are girls. I don't know what deluded world, or ultra PC world, you live in where boys and girls are the same, or act the same.

The existence of girls that don't scream, and boys that do, despite no difference in nurture is the evidence that it's entirely nature.

It's not absolute "all girls scream", it's simply that more girls than boys do so - much more. And there is nothing whatsoever wrong with that, or with noticing that.

Embrace the differences!

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Post by timv »

davegardner wrote: post #74
NamTaf wrote: post #66

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You're not Australian, so you're not naturally immune to the fear of creepy crawly insects.

Speaking as an Aussie, I'd much prefer to come across one of these in the bush than I would an angry drop bear.

an angry drop bear

Is there any other kind of drop bear?

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Post by gambiting »

vacri wrote: post #93
gambiting wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where? How? There is no such thing said anywhere - if you made such connection in your brain then well, it's your problem. It's a description of a sound, nothing more, nothing less.

You strike me as the kind of person who literally believes in everything a politician says, and is unaware of subtexts. If you think that all that people say is only the pure literal surface meaning of their words, than that is very much your problem, not mine. Also, the trope is "run away, screaming like a little girl", not just "screaming like a little girl".

I think this is a general problem with us programmers - we read everything incredibly literally. If you want to read into subtext then please do, but I don't see it. Fortunately I am not interested in politics.

Re: Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides for 80 Years (2012)

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Post by mania »

jusben1369 wrote: post #90
mania wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you say girls aren't more scared of rats than boys? They don't scream louder and longer when looking at a little mouse in the corner? They are all macho in your delusional worldview, right?

Can you think of any scientific reason to defend why that would be the case Mania? If not then it's not nature it's nurture. Which is my point. And somewhat ironic you used the term "macho" wouldn't ya say? :)

Here you have your science my dear marxist ideologue: girls have tear channels about 4 times larger than boys. Also testosterone prevents/helps to stop crying.

But you really don't care about science. Because you are marxist ideologue and not scientist.

Just next time when firemen rescue people trapped in house demand that in 50% cases they rescue men first. Fight this female hurting culture it is 2015 for goodness sake!!! Not that human genome haven't changed in any significant way in the past 10,000 years

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