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[Deadpool]

As a former boy, I don't remember boys being told to go into STEM when I was eight, either. Usually we were just going to third grade class and playing with our friends.

 

Be honest here for a sec... When you were 8 (assuming you're not like 15 now, which I honestly don't know...) how many boys were told to grow up to be doctors and lawyers v/ how many girls were told that? Let's maybe say 8 wasn't the age, how about 12?

[jaysfan2014]

LA/OAK is still going.. 5-5 in the 11th, and Sciosia is going to burn out his bullpen at the rate he's using them.. we might see Luke Bard today.

[Deadpool]

Why does it matter if there are women in STEM or not? Does having a vagina somehow make them more qualified? As long as there's no discrimination, I couldn't give a s*** if a single woman is in STEM because that's their choice and I guess I'd rather treat females like adults rather than poor little victims that I have to save.

 

It's not about girls specifically getting into STEM, it's about girls (and boys) being given myriad options, instead of being told "hey, you're going to be this or this and THAT'S IT".

 

The problem isn't with admissions to colleges, or with job discrimination (necessarily), it's with the way they are directed when they're young.

[Boxcar]

Hitler was unquestionably a better leader than Trump. I'm not saying he was a better person, but he was very much a better leader.

 

I guess it depends if you were Aryan. No surprise you'd take Stalin over Trump, given your support for equality of outcome.

 

I mean, you can have any opinion you want I guess but that's a pretty spicy take.

[Hobbs]

Be honest here for a sec... When you were 8 (assuming you're not like 15 now, which I honestly don't know...) how many boys were told to grow up to be doctors and lawyers v/ how many girls were told that? Let's maybe say 8 wasn't the age, how about 12?

 

Uh, again, when I was 8 years old I don't remember being browbeaten into which jobs I should or shouldn't go into. That's not how most kids are raised at that age.

[Boxcar]

As a former boy, I don't remember boys being told to go into STEM when I was eight, either. Usually we were just going to third grade class and playing with our friends.

 

You're wrong. Boys were growing up being told to be presidents and astronauts and scientists while girls were told to stfu and play with dolls. I know this is true because I think it is true.

[Abomination]

Could a mod please clean the crap out of this thread? There's new people coming here now that the MLB boards are gone, and this is definitely not what we want them to see.

[Hobbs]

Deadpool, if your parents and teachers were forcing you into an occupation at 8 years old, I apologize and I sincerely feel bad for you. You were raised by some really s***** people if that's the case.

[jaysfan2014]

Red Sox bullpen really wishes they still had Noe Ramirez-- 1.0 IP, 1BB, 3Ks.. which is better than what Kelly and Smith did today.

[Boxcar]

It's not about girls specifically getting into STEM, it's about girls (and boys) being given myriad options, instead of being told "hey, you're going to be this or this and THAT'S IT".

 

The problem isn't with admissions to colleges, or with job discrimination (necessarily), it's with the way they are directed when they're young.

 

My god, if this is how you think most kids are raised, I feel bad that you had to experience that childhood. I'm sorry.

[Boxcar]

Could a mod please clean the crap out of this thread? There's new people coming here now that the MLB boards are gone, and this is definitely not what we want them to see.

 

You mean the mod that is participating?

 

Btw this is Terminator's fault, I recommend a ban.

 

E: sorry guys, these gender communist types trigger the hell out of me so I regret my participation. I will accept a ban for my actions.

[Deadpool]

Deadpool, if your parents and teachers were forcing you into an occupation at 8 years old, I apologize and I sincerely feel bad for you. You were raised by some really s***** people if that's the case.

 

And if you don't acknowledge the reality of the fact that in the 80s (when I grew up) and presumably other decades both before and after that that children were coached into gender-specific jobs, then I guess you're forgetting history and/or you grew up outside of it. The reason people are encouraging young girls into interest in STEM is to expose them to stuff that young girls traditionally weren't exposed to, and give them the opportunity to see if it's something they like. It's a net-plus for the species.

[jaysfan2014]

Mike Trout 0-6 today.. not a memorable Opening Day for him.

[Terminator]

You mean the mod that is participating?

 

Btw this is Terminator's fault, I recommend a ban.

 

E: sorry guys, these gender communist types trigger the hell out of me so I regret my participation. I will accept a ban for my actions.

 

It's not my fault at all. I am doing god's work over here transcribing that shithole Gendergraphs podcast so no one else has to listen to it. This is Fangraph's fault. I'm sticking strictly to what is being discussed on the internet's favorite baseball statistical analysis site. You guys are going hard on the job stuff not me. If anything, we should ban all Fangraphs links from the board.

[Hobbs]

I clicked on this thread for baseball news and found someone saying stupid s*** about gender differences. I don't really regret giving my opinion. It's a pretty dangerous ideology than needs to be pushed back against whenever it pops up.

[5ToolPhenom]

Hey guys, I wonder if anyone knows of a good site with free streaming games? I'll probably pony up for MLB TV sooner than later, but I was wondering if there was any alternatives in the meantime.

[Terminator]

Hey guys, I wonder if anyone knows of a good site with free streaming games? I'll probably pony up for MLB TV sooner than later, but I was wondering if there was any alternatives in the meantime.

 

Google "reddit mlb streams"

[5ToolPhenom]

Thanks man. I'll give that a try

[5ToolPhenom]

A-Rod in the booth for ESPN on the SF/LA broadcast. He's actually quite personable on the air. I'm pleasantly surprised.

[P2F]

Mike Trout 0-6 today.. not a memorable Opening Day for him.

 

Bust.

[P2F]

Hey guys, I wonder if anyone knows of a good site with free streaming games? I'll probably pony up for MLB TV sooner than later, but I was wondering if there was any alternatives in the meantime.

 

http://www.sportshd.me

[Hobbs]

The reddit stream I used today worked pretty well. Is MLB TV really even worth it?

[5ToolPhenom]

This is great. Thanks! Love the avatar BTW! Rodneys the best:o

[5ToolPhenom]

Damn, Giants are making Kershaw look pretty ordinary. Panik took him deep and he's already given up 7 hits and 2 walks over 4.2 innings

[Bobthe4th]

The reddit stream I used today worked pretty well. Is MLB TV really even worth it?

 

Only if you either instead to watch delays of games, pick the audio, or watch through your phone or games console IMO. HD streams are easy to find.

[Jimcanuck]

Damn, Giants are making Kershaw look pretty ordinary. Panik took him deep and he's already given up 7 hits and 2 walks over 4.2 innings

 

Kershaw doesn't look comfortable.... has issues with the back

[metafour]

See, here's your problem with this line of thinking... "women don't want these kinds of jobs" is because that's basically how a lot of women are raised, the problem isn't that there aren't openings for women, any competent hiring manager would hire the best qualified person, but because women are discouraged from a young age from pursuing STEM, they don't. Frankly, I think that's a very, very stupid way to raise kids, and it's probably costing us some damn good STEM types that could be doing amazing things for us as a society.

 

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate).

 

We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this ******** notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter ********. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

[jays4life19]

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[BTS]

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate).

 

We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this ******** notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter ********. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

 

Jesus that was savage

[ChrisS]

No, you are 100% wrong. Any psychologist worth anything knows that there are clear gender-differences in behaviour which ultimately play a giant role in occupational interest, hence why despite massive environmental intervention in Western nations to "push females into STEM", the number of females who are willing to do that type of systemic-based work barely fluctuates. No society proves this more than the Scandinavian nations who are ahead of everyone else in "workplace equality" (and have been for decades) and yet somehow possess the greatest ratio of female to male nurses, and male to female engineers on the planet (its like 20 to 1 or 25 to 1 for each). You see, in these first-world nations where there is little poverty, when you give people the option to do anything they want (ie: you downplay environmental factors), you naturally empower biological factors which drive females to jobs that revolve around compassion, caring, nurturing, etc....ie: nursing, teaching, pediatrics, etc. You see far greater female participation in STEM fields in developing nations like India, Southeast Asia, China, etc. which practice far stronger forms of "patriarchy", why? Because there is a giant environmental factor which pushes females to those higher paying fields in those countries: the economic need to provide for your family which may be a bunch of farmers or other poor rural peasants. Girls in these nations aren't "taught" to be IT professionals or engineers, you are talking about societies wherein females are still expected to do nothing but take care of the family, yet alas the economic factor of the environment they belong to gives them a reason to strive for those jobs. That doesn't exist in Canada, or Sweden, or Norway, etc, etc, (or at least it exists at a far less significant rate).

 

We have entered a dark-age in academia wherein biology supposedly no longer exists, all driven by this ******** notion of post-modernist egalitarianism. The idea that everyone, regardless of gender, is some sort of "blank slate" is absurd and utter ********. They have found behavioural differences in infants that are barely weeks old. They've also found significant links between testosterone and behaviour. They know that children with higher levels of testosterone will develop communication and social sense at a slower pace. The reason why males dominate STEM is because the male brain is wired towards interest in those tasks; just like females dominate nursing, primary education, psychiatry, PSW work, etc, etc. Anyone with a working brain should understand why the sex that is tasked with birthing and raising children would have a natural biological preference towards working with kids, for instance.

Bingo.

 

It’s interesting that in places where woman have the least equality, least freedom and the most oppression, they are represented in STEM fields at a higher rate.

 

Left wing nut jobs can’t get it through their heads that the average woman has no interest in becoming plumbers, construction workers, sanitation workers, software engineers etc etc etc

 

Woman place more value on work/life balance. They want less stress and responsibility. One of my best friends works a corporate job and she has had opportunities to move up, make more money and have increased responsibilities. She has flat out told me she doesn’t want the added stress.