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To: NYpeanut
Chill out.

With one exception that I think was missing the /sarcasm tag, you were the first person to truly fly off the handle. I guess it's a girl thing.

I'd be fascinated to see what you can come up with in the way of Venn diagrams (which at least 70% of the time are pure cr*p) that somehow proves there is not a gender gap.

Of course there is a gender gap. Men and women are different. Every single study that starts out trying to prove differently either flounders on the rocks and shoals of reality or ends up getting trounced for falsifying data. By and large men are more violent and separational (things are good or bad, black or white, not shades of gray) whereas women are more nurturing and bonding. Men are basically stronger, women have bodies better adapted for long life. Women are designed to live long miserable lives and men short violent ones. Yes, there are exceptions. But those descriptions work on a statistical level for the population "Male Human" and the population "Female Human."

Given these differences (and every one of them is backed up by a relatively unbiased and peer reviewed study), it's no wonder that women and men, by and large, cannot decide on what the "right" candidate is.

To men this is an argument to repeal the 19th Amendment. Since you're obviously wrong. (separational, remember) To women it's a reason to make us sleep on the couch.

Chill.

595 posted on 11/19/2001 7:36:29 PM PST by Abn1508
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To: Abn1508
Before I consider your advice to "chill" I must clarify that I have never argued that there is not a gender gap. Of course a gender gap exists in voting patterns.

What I have argued is that a gender gap (racial gap, education gap, religion gap, facial hair gap, bad teeth gap, etc.) is no reason to remove voting rights from other members of a group with similar characteristics. That is common sense, and I have to suffer foolish attacks when I point it out, but I can take it. If I was ignorant enough to point out that there is a racial voting gap and use it as a tirade to remove voting rights from all members of that particular race I would sound really, really stupid and evil, right? I would give "conservatives" a bad name with my ignorance. Then I would get yanked from FR, and I would deserve it.

I usually ask these guys why, in the light of the overwhelming male gender in gun crimes, 2nd amendment rights should not be yanked from men (same lack of logic here), but they never answer. I guess the premise sounds too stupid.

Sorry you do not like the Venn circles. They are just an introduction to deductive logic (elementary kids do them), and if they are wrong, then you're either doing them wrong, or missing the point.

705 posted on 11/20/2001 1:15:45 AM PST by NYpeanut
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