Gender Studies - November 2007

2007-11-09 06:52:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

This place is so damned funny since, really, there ain't no gender here except the gender indicated by an odd little picture.

Hypothesis: the use of gender specific avatars significantly influences peoples reactions to the posts made by the avatar's owner.

Is this too bloody obvious? Is this just too ridiculous?

I've been thinking about it and it wouldn't be too difficult to come up with a protocol. Perhaps take several dozens of statements made here (sans avatar and Id) and have people rate them on a Likert scale (strongly disagree ... strongly agree). I'll bet that not knowing the gender of the poster will make it difficult for some people to determine if they agree or disagree and other people will change from "agree" to "disagree" based on gender.

2007-11-09 06:45:05 · 14 answers · asked by language is a virus 6

Date: 09 Nov 2007 11:35:41 -0800
Subject: Yahoo! Answers: You have received a message from another user!
To: Hello ♥ ~Sigy~♥ ,

You have received a message from another user!

From: (again leaving out his name)

Subject: the offer is off the table

Message: what you did does not fly with me
i do not agree with posting people's emails

take care
keep me blocked I will keep you blocked
back to normal

over and out young lady

2007-11-09 06:43:20 · 13 answers · asked by ♥ ~Sigy the Arctic Kitty~♥ 7

My mum started reading all these romance novels, and books such as Jane Eyre and ever since, whenever someone around her says something against women (like as a joke) she snaps at them, when she didnt before!
I think romance novels cause women to become all pro-female.

2007-11-09 05:15:59 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone tell me why, when a woman is promiscuous, she's condemned and called a "s!ut," but when a man is promiscuous, he's praised and called a "player."

This double standard is unfair and offensive. I think that being promiscuous is wrong for both genders, but why are women singled out and stigmatized whereas men are actually praised for it? It makes no sense.

2007-11-09 04:54:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why doesn't it look natural when a woman is confident and assertive? They end up coming across as being a b*tch.

2007-11-09 04:03:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Thats nature. Its unnatural for men to be submissive and women to be domineering. Thats why feminism can never truely succeed.

The type of equality feminist want can never work. Humans were not ment to live in a Man=Woman fasion. Most relationships where the woman is dominant over the man are unhealthy and unhappy for both sides.

Each gender has its thing. Why should the world change because 35% of women in America think being submissive and feminine is demeaning?

I'm sure everything started out with men in charge for a reason.

2007-11-09 04:03:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the animal kingdom, there is a social construct. Most of the time, the male is the master. Are animals sexist? or is it just nature. Face it, men are stronger, more dominant. That's nature. Why does that threaten feminists so much? IF you believe in evolution, then why deny the course that evolution took?

2007-11-09 03:22:11 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-09 01:17:53 · 18 answers · asked by VILAS S 1

Its concerns are, for example, equality in child custody such as shared parenting, subjecting men to unwanted parental responsibilities, equality in adoption rights, legislation addressing women's needs without consideration for men (VAWA), high incarceration rates and harsher sentences, the lack in health concerns for men (breast cancer v. prostate cancer; which has more awareness and funding into it?)

These are just some of the many examples of it-- more on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculism

Do you think masculism is reasonable or a threat to feminists?

2007-11-08 21:45:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

the following is paraphrased, and inspired the question:

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And how have you chosen to honor your humanity? What is there left for us if all of creation falls around us? There is nothing. No hope, no dream, no future, no life. Unless we turn from the cycle of conflict toward something greater. If we are a dying people, then let us die with honor, by helping the others as no one else can.

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I don't understand.

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Because you have let them distract you. Blind you with hate. You cannot see the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another. We must realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because if we fail in this then none of us will be saved, and we will be only a memory.

You have the opportunity here and now to choose, to become something greater and nobler and more difficult than you have been before. The universe does not offer such chances often

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2007-11-08 19:40:24 · 8 answers · asked by Twilight 6

I had to delete the last identical question because names were mentioned. This question is not about certain individuals, but in general the pattern that I have observed.

2007-11-08 19:19:55 · 18 answers · asked by Lioness 6

Why would any man support equal rights for women, when maintaining the status quo, in theory, is to his benefit?

Why would any woman seek equality rather than superiority?

My answer (it might not be yours) is that our capacity for empathy, to walk a mile in the others shoes - our empathy is a measure of our humanity.

Matthew 25:31 to 45

Whatsoever you do to the least of My brothers, that you do unto Me

Whatsoever you do to the least of My sisters, that you do unto Me

Whatsoever you do to the least of My children, that you do unto Me

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Is our capacity for Empathy a measure of our Humanity?

2007-11-08 18:56:11 · 9 answers · asked by Twilight 6

Why do these people become pharmacists in the first damn place, ugh!

SEATTLE - A federal judge has suspended Washington state's requirement that pharmacists sell "morning-after" birth control pills, a victory for druggists who claim their moral objections to the drug are being bulldozed by the government...Critics consider the pill tantamount to abortion, although it is different from the abortion pill RU-486 and has no effect on women who already are pregnant...."On the issue of free exercise of religion alone, the evidence before the court convinces it that plaintiffs ... have demonstrated both a likelihood of success on the merits and the possibility of irreparable injury," Leighton wrote.

The injunction effectively sets up a so-called "refuse and refer" system, allowing pharmacists who personally oppose Plan B to send customers to another pharmacy.

2007-11-08 17:53:37 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I spend a little time in "Religion & Spirituality" (completely nuttily interesting) and "Mathematics" (not quite completely mathematical as it should be but...). I think the dynamic here is a wee bit different. Do you spend time in other Y!A areas? How do they compare?

2007-11-08 17:21:40 · 7 answers · asked by language is a virus 6

Where do you PERSONALLY draw the line as harassment? Sexually or otherwise? Thank you.

2007-11-08 16:27:07 · 15 answers · asked by iambic_chatterbox 4

So that she'll find me attractive?

2007-11-08 16:09:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-08 14:51:28 · 30 answers · asked by Ryancool97 1

2007-11-08 14:41:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Don't they think we have minds of our own and it's got nothing to do with feminism? Don't see me blaming the cavemen for your actions.

2007-11-08 12:47:57 · 12 answers · asked by ♥ Shell ♥ 3

2007-11-08 12:44:08 · 19 answers · asked by Lioness 6

Aha!! Thought I was gonna ask a loaded question, eh?! ;-)

Is the basis for gender conflict between men and women the fact that each will NEVER know (except perhaps for persons of surgical transgender) what it's like to have the other's biochemistry?

2007-11-08 12:28:20 · 6 answers · asked by tornwax 3

First of all this isn't about me and I would never go to a prostitute, if I want sex I'd get married first and only to that guy =) but I'm just curious about a couple of things:

1. What kind of women would go to a male prostitute for sex?
2. What would you think if a woman you know told you she's been with a male prostitute once?

2007-11-08 12:17:21 · 7 answers · asked by Butterfly 1

Are women more jealous than men? Why?

2007-11-08 11:46:57 · 11 answers · asked by lm 3

In my opinion, I don't think I would want one. Maybe during role-play sex or something but to be kept that way, I don't think so.

I just think the relationship could get boring really fast if all your wife did was wait for you to get home and wait for you to give her an order. I prefer a woman I could not just have sex with, but relate and talk to, hear her opinion on matters instead of just agreeing with mine even if she dosen't, and just have a good laugh with.

I know most other guys might think thats weird, but that just me.

2007-11-08 11:18:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'll start :)

Gnu Sense, I admire your intellect and I wish I knew what you know about logic. I hope I will some day. I admire the quality of the arguments you make in your Q&As. I also admire that you will still say some thing even when you know it will get you a lot of flack. For what it's worth I want to thank you

ok who else wants to tell someone in here how they admire them? :)

2007-11-08 11:08:39 · 17 answers · asked by ♥ ~Sigy the Arctic Kitty~♥ 7

If we are all equal before God, by having to give account for ourselves and our decisions, who is to stand against God by denying this acknowledgment as the basis for ALL equality?

2007-11-08 10:58:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-08 10:27:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some feminists believe that, it is possible for women to be 'portrayed', 'paraded like cattle' or 'objectified', in films, beauty contests and in erotic bars, in a way that is sexist or demeaning to them. How is it possible that a woman can be 'paraded like cattle' (as though her intelligence is akin to bovine levels and she has no choice). Why do many feminists think that women can be, 'paraded' and somehow don't think of the complex implications of their decisions when they choose to enter a situation where they would be somehow, 'exploited'. Is it really possible for a woman to be 'objectified'? is that not just patronising to their intelligence? Isn't Mr Universe exactly the same thing? or even male nudity? I ask is feminism patronising to women?

2007-11-08 09:16:51 · 10 answers · asked by patrick w 2

2007-11-08 08:29:40 · 18 answers · asked by ♥ ~Sigy the Arctic Kitty~♥ 7