[WikiEN-l] Do NOT appeal bans, for your own sake

[Thomas Dalton]

On 20/09/2007, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> I think the problem is that the specific assertion that was made here
> ("women are more likely to wander off-topic in a discussion than
> men") is debatable at best and can be interpreted as insulting to
> women as rational beings. I'm unaware of any body of scientific
> research showing that men are more likely to stay on-topic than
> women. There's certainly no scholarly or scientific consensus on this
> point. To accept this claim is therefore not "recognizing
> psychological differences," because the claimed difference in this
> case may not exist at all. (Personally, I don't think it does.)

It being wrong does not make it discriminatory.