On 9/20/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/09/2007, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On 19 Sep 2007 at 10:40:02 -0400, "Armed Blowfish" diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
Prohibiting off-topic communication is also discriminatory against the average woman. Men, as a tendency, are often more to-the-point than women.
Making generalizations about what women are like and how it's different from men is also discriminatory against women (average or not).
If you take the literal meaning of discrimination (telling things apart), then yes. If you take the more common meaning of discrimination as prejudiced behaviour, then no. Men and women are different, that's a simple statement of fact, it isn't prejudiced in any way.
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Well I'm female and I find what he said a) incredibly rude and b) untrue. Perhaps not 'discriminatory' but it's still a stupid thing to say (and think). Pretty much any generalisation you make about ~50% of the human population of this planet is a stupid thing to say.