ETA: Please read this before this post. Note that this is not a post about RaceFail.

My head is full of thoughts and ideas, partly based on my RaceFail readings, particularly thrown up by
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I'm feeling stressed and bothered by the world ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone for your feedback on my rasfc farewell. You've really helped with my sense of closure, plus reduced the amount of "what is wrong with me?" sensation (which sensation I believe is proof I'm actually a normally-socialised human being, unlike apparently most of rasfc ( Read more... )

I wrote a long rant to farewell rasfc. Then life intervened (my emotional energy in writing it was already interfering with my job yesterday and I just had to take a break, and get some work done). And now I'm thinking why bother post it?

( I'm putting it here for the record, in case anyone cares. )

I think JAD was trying to offend me here, but somehow I'm charmed and amused that either my gender online is not obvious, or I behave sufficiently outside his gender expectations to upset him?

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From: James A. Donald Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.composition ( Read more... )

David Friedman on rec.arts.sf.misc (still part of the thread of doom, of course).

In article ,
"Suzanne Blom" wrote ( Read more... )

This is not about genetic/innate differences between men and women affecting ability to be scientists. It's basically a response to an issue that came up in an argument I'm no longer taking part in, because in the course of hunting around for some references that would be relevant to my argument, I found a very interesting paper looking at high- ( Read more... )

This is an attempt to explain why I've mostly ignored all David Friedman's (and Larry Summer's) arguments/claims that the reason there are more very-high level male scientists and engineers is that, while genetic/innate average intelligence does not differ between the sexes, the standard deviation of (genetic/innate) intelligence does differ, so ( Read more... )

Or at least, the overlap between LJ and rasfc/rasfm ( Read more... )

So, you're taking part in an argument about what the currently-observed large excess of male scientists and engineers mean. Is there a genetic/epigenetic/innate difference between men and women, or are there systematic differences in how they are raised ( Read more... )