(January 10, 2013 at 1:27 pm)TaraJo Wrote: It's difficult to get past the hard numbers on this. Almost all the studies done on the sociological factors that lead men to do x and women to do y is done by feminists, so there's going to be some amount of in-group bias and confirmation bias. It's been really difficult to find non-biased sources that will tackle the issues.
I'm less interested in 'the hard numbers' than I am in the theory. Take our recent troll's "50% of transgendered people commit suicide" statement. It's probably mostly true, but it doesn't matter nearly as much (to me) as the reasons behind the data (bullying, financial ruin, unemployability, social ostracization, dysphoria, etc).
Quote:And, yes, ultimately we all take personal responsibility for the choices we make, but I'm talking about the influences society has on us that leads us to make certain choices. If you took someone like Einstein and raised him in a society where there isn't good education or where education is looked down on (*cough*TEXAS*cough*) then he probably wouldn't have become the physicist he was known as.
The world would have been fine without Einstein the physicist, but if he's so smart he probably would have made something of it anyway. Texas ain't so bad
My niece wants to move here badly, I can't allow Texas to suck as much as AK 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
