Thread: science is helping racist

When scientific research shows some kind of difference between men and women, how is that sexist? It doesn't say, "Men have better visualization skills... therefore they are better... haha women sux0rz" All it says is the following:

"From a sample of 1000 men and 1000 women, there is a CLEAR difference in visualization skills between the two". The doesn't mean "all men are better at it than all women"... it just means ON AVERAGE, it's the case. How is that sexist? Sexism begins where someone uses that data to only interview men for a position that requires visualization skills. But then, the sexist one is the recruiter.

Originally Posted by Replicon

When scientific research shows some kind of difference between men and women, how is that sexist? It doesn't say, "Men have better visualization skills... therefore they are better... haha women sux0rz" All it says is the following:

"From a sample of 1000 men and 1000 women, there is a CLEAR difference in visualization skills between the two". The doesn't mean "all men are better at it than all women"... it just means ON AVERAGE, it's the case. How is that sexist? Sexism begins where someone uses that data to only interview men for a position that requires visualization skills. But then, the sexist one is the recruiter.

I don't think it would be sexist to hire a man in preference to a woman in a job that required great physical endurance and emotional stability.


Men are better at these particular things; this doesn't make them in any way superior beings somehow.



This isn't sexism if someone did that; it's merely practicality.

Somebody would have to be pretty damn stupid to deny that there are physical differences between the races.
Nevertheless all the research in the world is only ever going to prove that most of these differences are pretty superficial.

The big problem is cultural and social issues which keep some members of the population from integrating effectively with others and perpetuate certain mindsets in communities that are impossible to break.

RACE IS NOT THE ISSUE!

CULTURE IS!!!

Nope, I'm pretty sure it's just race.