If the truth is sexist, is it any less true?

Question

Often enough times, if one reads the results of a study or statistical fact that favors either sex, (even if just in perception) it is considered sexest and rejected. However, does a sexist fact make the fact anly less true? For instance, (these are merely examples):

- Most serial killers are male.
- 100% of all pregnancies occur to women (lol)
- Women are far more prone to breast cancer than men
- On average women live longer than men by 5 years, (as of 2006).
- Most crimes are commited by men
- Most advance mathematicians, programmers, and engineers are men
- In the Boston Marathon, the males are faster than the females by minutes, (tens of minutes) consistantly

Remember, these are merely examples. They may not be accurate. The point is, (assuming these facts are true) should these facts be rejected simply because they are sexist?

Answer 1

No. Statistics about men or women differ because the sexes differ. That is a fact of life.

Answer 2

Um, your premise sort of presumes that someone WOULD deny these facts... and I don't think anyone would. You're making an argument where there isn't any, because you enjoy thinking that the rest of the world is wrong and you are right.

But a simple statement of fact is different from a full understanding of that fact. Most serial killers are male: why? Do we really know? Most advanced mathematicians are men: why? Again, can we really know why?

We are such social creatures that it is very difficult to tell what may be caused biologically, and what may be caused socially, for example. But if we were to understand the causes of each of these phenomena, we might be able to do something like stop serial killers. Which, I think, is worth considering.

Unless you're okay with serial killers, as long as they're not presumptous feminist serial killers.

Answer 3

Second from the last is sexist. It implies a woman can't excel there. Remember up until around 1960 if a woman was in Medical School and they found out she was going to be something other than a Pediatrician they didn't re-admit her next term. Also don't forget Ada wrote programs for the Babbage engine, and everyone agrees they would have worked.

All the others are probably valid and can be drawn on sexual lines AS OF TODAY, but they don't make it a truth, excpet for #2 and the last one.

It's hard to see a man getting pregnant and a woman's muscles will always be smaller and less powerful than a man UNLESS SHE DOPES HERSELF UP WITH STEROIDS for that testorone boost.

God help us if women sudden develope more natural testosterone and start having beards (and pattern baldness, which comes from testosterone related matters).

Answer 4

Not at all. A fact is a fact, regardless of the "political correctness" of what it states.
What people need to understand is that men and women are very different, physiologically and psychologically. Men do some things better than women, and women do some things better than men. We are supposed to be different, otherwise our species would have died out long ago. I don't understand why any woman would want to be percieved in the same way as a man.
To quote Pepe LaPeiu: "Vive la différence!"

Answer 5

HaHaHa... very funny, but still very true. I like someone who can theorize something like this! Ok I think that sonce these are proven facts that they cannot be ruled as sexist...

Something I have always theorized apon is, if I drop a HUGE block of ice on my foot will it swell? I think I am gonna go ask this... LMAO...

Answer 6

sorry, did you say anything in your question? my sexually equal trained brain deleted all your Sexist statements - thus making them untrue, and ignored!

Answer 7

not less true, just politically incorrect

Answer 8

no, us women don't want your bad statistics lol