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WCT: September 14-18, 2009
maddness:
She's threatening to punch him in a friendly way! Improvement! I know I always prefer threats of physical violence to be accompanied by a friendly smile.
akronnick:
Faye threatening to punch a boy? sheesh, it's practically part of her mating ritual!
Faye, Angus, Astrophysics...I aprove of this message!
snubnose:
Faye FLIRTS !
Damn.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: ysth on 16 Sep 2009, 21:36 ---It's all but impossible to grow up (at least in the U.S.) and not have some level of sexism; all the more so for heterosexism. But you can try to fight against it; to do so, you must first recognize that assumptions are the enemy, then systematically notice whenever you make one.
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Stereotypes are fundamental to making it practical for us to interact with an insanely complex world. What needs to be considered is the inappropriate use of them, and this can be misjudged either way, depending on current views, and whether you are a boor or obsessively PC.
ysth:
--- Quote from: IanClark on 16 Sep 2009, 22:56 ---Which two points then?
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I'll try again, once.
--- Quote from: IanClark on 16 Sep 2009, 10:28 ---A recent anonymous survey returned that 12.9% of women were bisexual (although strangely enough the question: "Are you bisexual?" returned far less), on top of the somewhat standard number of 10% homosexual. So there's a 22.9% chance of any woman with no established information about her sexuality liking girls (Marigold), and for one who has been established to like guys but not to not like girls, it's 12.9%. So, in either case, to assume they were probably straight isn't homophobia, it's statistics. The exact opposite of bias.
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From your base numbers, it should be "for one who has been established to like guys but not to not like girls, it's 14.3%". Of 1000 typical women, you would expect 100 homosexual and 900 hetero- or bisexual, 129 of the latter being bisexual. Your "like guys" limits it to the 900, and 129/900 is 14.3%.
The other point was that unnecessary assumption is the basis of discrimination; if you can't avoid making assumptions, you aren't going to avoid discriminating. The statistics are not a justification; if they were, it would mean it is somehow more right to discriminate against a smaller minority than a larger one.
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