On 9/20/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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