On 9/20/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
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.
Nonsense. Women are generally shorter than men. Women generally have a higher percentage of body fat that men. Women are generally more susceptible to breast cancer than men. All generalisations, and all true. I doubt you think any of them are stupid. So why is recognising physical differences acceptable, while recognising psychological differences is not?
Society's version of WP:V, basically. Our culture accepts distinguishing groups of people based on physically verifiable characteristics; but psychological characteristics are much harder to verify conclusively, so we as a society tend to reject acknowledgement of those differences between groups of people.
--Darkwind