These FFS articles are very inspiring. They're a powerful antidote against the daily gaslighting and misogyny.
No, Virginia, there is no such thing as a male lady.
I send virtual hugs, kisses and fist bumps to Deta Hedman and Riley Gaines, two awesome women, and of course to Kara for spreading the truth every Friday.
Sounds pretty straight forward. No frills attached. Our government is demanding we accept a religious idea, that a mortal can transcend the laws of nature. I thought only Jesus did that? I do not consent.
I had a discussion that left me dissatisfied on why chess should be sex-segregated; darts is similar and it came to me this evening.
I don't believe you would find Females directly compete with each other the same way Males directly compete with each other in risk-taking sports.
It's really that simple.
Any contest which has a component of risk taking will, over large number of trials and players, always show an unbalanced outcome for opposite-sex competition vs same-sex competition.
The source of the difference has many hypotheses, I believe the most successful will be based on neuroendocrine effects: testosterone tends to suppress negative emotional response to projections of negative outcomes, and prolactin enhances it.
In less woo woo : when people consider how a decision may go badly, testosterone makes it harder to feel bad, prolactin makes it easier to feel bad.
Testosterone is not an antidepressant but it has an amazing ability to suppress, for instance, the emotional response of crying when events don’t go in a direction we want.
High-testosterone/low prolactin = high threshold for bad feelings = low risk aversion = aggressive risk-based competition
Low-testosterone/high prolactin = low threshold for bad feelings = high risk aversion = conservative risk-based competition
Chess, darts, sharpshooting - skill, not strength-based sports but they involve risk-taking will always show unbalanced outcomes in different-sex competition, biased towards men.
By contrast, I suspect medicine, finance, security and disciplines where you need to be conservative, long-term outcomes will probably show, comparing different-sex trials, an imbalance with bias towards women.
A follow up: I’m starting to see multiple studies which claim that patients of female doctors
“Of 458 108 female and 318 819 male patients, 142 465 (31.1%) and 97 500 (30.6%) were treated by female physicians, respectively. Both female and male patients had a lower patient mortality when treated by female physicians; “
These FFS articles are very inspiring. They're a powerful antidote against the daily gaslighting and misogyny.
No, Virginia, there is no such thing as a male lady.
I send virtual hugs, kisses and fist bumps to Deta Hedman and Riley Gaines, two awesome women, and of course to Kara for spreading the truth every Friday.
bravo to Hedman and yet again to Gaines
Sounds pretty straight forward. No frills attached. Our government is demanding we accept a religious idea, that a mortal can transcend the laws of nature. I thought only Jesus did that? I do not consent.
I had a discussion that left me dissatisfied on why chess should be sex-segregated; darts is similar and it came to me this evening.
I don't believe you would find Females directly compete with each other the same way Males directly compete with each other in risk-taking sports.
It's really that simple.
Any contest which has a component of risk taking will, over large number of trials and players, always show an unbalanced outcome for opposite-sex competition vs same-sex competition.
The source of the difference has many hypotheses, I believe the most successful will be based on neuroendocrine effects: testosterone tends to suppress negative emotional response to projections of negative outcomes, and prolactin enhances it.
In less woo woo : when people consider how a decision may go badly, testosterone makes it harder to feel bad, prolactin makes it easier to feel bad.
Testosterone is not an antidepressant but it has an amazing ability to suppress, for instance, the emotional response of crying when events don’t go in a direction we want.
High-testosterone/low prolactin = high threshold for bad feelings = low risk aversion = aggressive risk-based competition
Low-testosterone/high prolactin = low threshold for bad feelings = high risk aversion = conservative risk-based competition
Chess, darts, sharpshooting - skill, not strength-based sports but they involve risk-taking will always show unbalanced outcomes in different-sex competition, biased towards men.
By contrast, I suspect medicine, finance, security and disciplines where you need to be conservative, long-term outcomes will probably show, comparing different-sex trials, an imbalance with bias towards women.
A follow up: I’m starting to see multiple studies which claim that patients of female doctors
“Of 458 108 female and 318 819 male patients, 142 465 (31.1%) and 97 500 (30.6%) were treated by female physicians, respectively. Both female and male patients had a lower patient mortality when treated by female physicians; “
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-3163