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moonshadow wrote:[...] in Chattanooga, 20 out of the 50 cable channels are nothing but news [...]
Be careful with what you consider to be "news" -- much, if not most, of what's available now is thinly-veiled editorialising from one extreme viewpoint or another. Actually ferreting out what's really going on is more of a chore than ever as one must wade through so much muck and grime to gain anything like an unbiased viewpoint. Much of the current rancour that's playing out on the national stage is really the product of the sorts of "news" that folks listen to -- and believe.
I see Carl has beat me to the point. I was going to suggest you forgot the quotes around "news".
Stuart Gallion
No reason to hide my full name
Back in my skirts in San Francisco
I feel as though I should have been more specific in the original title: Suggestions Regarding Transgender Workplace Rights.
Btw, Moonshadow, you're quite right, gender is basically a social/ cultural construct. I haven't really kept up with the social science of it, but almost always they find some biological basis for such social constructs, i.e. elements that are more nature than nurture, but they keep proving to be more and more elusive.
If anyone has more workplace issues or ideas on how to meet them I'd love to hear them, but lacking that I would say this thread has run its course.
David, the PDX Fashion Pioneer
Social norms aren't changed by Congress or Parliament; they're changed by a sufficient number of people ignoring the existing ones and publicly practicing new ones.
They may find a biological basis... but when hunting for a needle in a haystack, how reproducible are those experiments?
Picture this: You have a 99% accurate diamond detector, and are in a field containing 101 rocks. You're merrily going along waving it over rocks, and it goes off. What is the probability that the rock contains a diamond? (Credit to Scientific Regress for the question)
Unfortunately, most experiments are less accurate than that, and there seem to be far fewer "failed" or no result experiments published than ones that find something.
human@world# ask_question --recursive "By what legitimate authority?"
