How are women "oppressed" by men?

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<p>judith butler? is that judge judy?</p>

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<p>Kind of simplistic, but it serves the purpose. Basically, these were found either by stimulating the area or by observing the deficits in a person who had suffered damage to that area. Relative differences in the sizes of each area are one of the ways men and women are different. It also helps to explain the different prevalence of specific mental diseases in men and women.</p>

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<p>Ego - You seem to think scientists are making sexist remarks based on brain structure or something, they’re not, they’re simply acknowleding that female/male brains aren’t exactly the same and that seems to have gone way over your head and you somehow think it’s sexist. Here’s an idea: open a biology textbook, take a neuroscience class, or simply google “parts of the brain” and you’ll be instantly linked to thousands of websites/studies/articles on the human brain and its parts and functions, how different parts of the brain are responsible for different functions. That article Son of Opie provided is good, but there’s definitely not 1 article we can show you, textbooks have been written about this, med students spend a lot of time memorizing each bit of the brain and studying its functions, neuroscientists spend their entire careers studying this, and it can get pretty complicated (as a freshman, i definitely won’t be able to tell you much) but if you’re seriously curious, there’s a ton of research out there.</p>

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<p>“And yeah, charity can be sexist.”</p>

<p>really now, helping people who universities won’t is sexist? really? think about what you’re saying.</p>

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<p>Yes, really now. Maybe you should look up the definition of discrimination. And I don’t even see why you mentioned ‘universities’ since they don’t help one gender more than the other.</p>

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<p>in the media, primarily television, a crystal lite commercial targetting primarily women, has skinny half-naked women, while a sobe commercial has no-where near fit men turning into lizards-btw, sobe had another similar commercial earlier, with an attractive woman…but then again im no feminist, if you want REAL equal opportunity, rid yourself of affirmative action and remove women from the military reserved lists</p>

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<p>listen: like logicwarrior said, it doesn’t matter that there are differences in the brain. what matters is when those differences are used as a way to make one sex seem superior. so, when people say “men are better at x y and z because of their burly man brains” or “women are better and a b and c because of their delicate little female brains,” that bs and honestly both genders should be offended.</p>

<p>but they aren’t, because x y and z are usually the things that get you the power and keep you real paid.</p>

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<p>Give it up stargazer. You’re trying to make an argument based on empirical physiological evidence, while they are intellectually stuck at the level of “gender studies”.</p>

<p>ego, et al, you are just too ignorant to debate properly. You need to get the facts before you continue making completely asinine and incorrect statements.</p>

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<p>Look out guys. The all star debate duo is teaming up.</p>

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<p>almost none of this made sense</p>

<p>the women in the crystal light commercial are half-naked and thin because that is the ideal, and the message in that commercial is that if you drink crystal light, you, too, will be thin and beautiful and be able to prance around in your skivvies. </p>

<p>i can’t even touch the rest because i have no idea what you’re on about</p>

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<p>“men are better at x y and z because of their burly man brains” or “women are better and a b and c because of their delicate little female brains,”</p>

<p>no, my point was that even if men are better at one thing and women better at another, it’s wrong to deny one sex opportunities (like women in engineering) because the average person of that gender is “weaker”.</p>

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<p>sweet, do we get t-shirts?</p>

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<p>Again, you’re seeing people as men or women instead of individuals.</p>

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<p>yeah, here’s your team logo
<a href=“http://public.wartburg.edu/ba325/fall08/PetersenB/SpOlympics_logo.jpg[/url]”>http://public.wartburg.edu/ba325/fall08/PetersenB/SpOlympics_logo.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“Look out guys. The all star debate duo is teaming up.”</p>

<p>it’s pretty sad that the only other person who thinks women are more oppressed than men doesn’t believe in science.</p>

<p>"Again, you’re seeing people as men or women instead of individuals. "</p>

<p>as the other posters in the thread have mentioned, men and women are different. if the best “individuals” happen to be the best men, then you’re leaving out women simply for being women.</p>

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<p>science is a lie made up by the devil</p>

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<p>Oh my god… </p>

<p>no. They’re being left out for performing worse (hypothetically, in the scenario you created). You can’t honestly be this stupid… you can’t.</p>

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<p>also re: 122, thank you for the link, i’m looking into it</p>

<p>i think everyone here is taking my skepticism a bit too far tbh. sorry if i think that years and years of social conditioning is a more probable cause for gender role adherence than the shape of the brain. fap fap fap etc etc etc</p>

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<p>i think you would be surprised by the answer to this question. </p>

<p>eta: the answer is “way more people than you would think, probably including several people on this board”</p>

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<p>“performing”??? what? you think engineering departments should be all male because men “perform” better?</p>

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<p>the department should consist of the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender. Scholarships should go to the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender. I seriously feel like I’m arguing with an 11 year old.</p>