Philosophy Now Forum

Really? It's all just a figment of the imagination? If they aren't like that then why aren't they protesting about the way they are portrayed, or portray themselves? It is, after all, one of the strongest lobby groups in the world. Okay, well all I'm saying is that not all Gays are like what societ...

Homosexuality: yet another thing the yanks have ruined. If they are just men who are attracted to other men then why all the obnoxious affectations? The whiny, high-pitched voices, the cattiness, the waxed eyebrows, the fake tans, the general shallow annoyingness that a large number of them carry o...

I used to love having sex for one reason only and that was to reach union with God. Sexual pleasure was my way of being with God who is in my opinion pure ecstasy. But I've now found a way to know God without having to have sex ..so now I really detest having sex, I find the whole performance so me...

Homosexuality: yet another thing the yanks have ruined. If they are just men who are attracted to other men then why all the obnoxious affectations? The whiny, high-pitched voices, the cattiness, the waxed eyebrows, the fake tans, the general shallow annoyingness that a large number of them carry on...

you realize that the use of military force allowed you this opportunity to ask the question in the first place... condemning the conqueror in his language says more about the conquered ... -Imp I never 'get' that particular argument. How do you or anyone else know what the world 'might' have looked...

going to war to liberate Europe from tyrannical Nazis only to surrender it to tyrannical soviets... holocaust here, purge there... why haven't you defected yet? -Imp Is it our concern, though? Should we engage in wholesale destruction to save someone else from their problems? I mean the tactics of ...

So self-absorbed.

... ''Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.'' Are you suggesting I become an 'AEA' member in order to see the 'full text'???? ... Just a lot of assumptions. I can't comment on these 'findings' because there is no access to the actual r...

So, if you fancy backing up your 'stated research', be my guest. Otherwise, f@ck off and let the rest of us engage in thinking without needing to suffer you appearing to use it as an excuse for personal attack. Education-line Home Page What's in a name? Experiments with blind marking in A level Exa...

Popper may well work for physics but in the ...ologies I doubt he holds much sway and even in the former it is not always to disprove an observation that a study is carried out. As soon as I hear 'pseudoscience' I know I'm talking to a pseud. I take your point about the Berlin Orchestra but the who...

WTF? I'm not saying I'm right! I just want evidence! What is so weird about that?? That link you posted was ambiguous at best. No studies cited. No mention of which orchestras or whether they still do this today. It looks as if the piece was written by a couple of 'feminists' with an axe to grind. ...

Why are you changing the subject? My post was a related one, whether the OP was right or wrong the subject was gender-bias in selection or grading processes and I thought it interesting that this topic had been addressed in the 70's and 80's by symphony orchestras and had been shown to be a reasona...

Arising_uk wrote:
The point is no-one is 'practicing' it, it's subconscious.

That takes the cake.
And I did follow your link. I assumed there must be more to it, but there are no examples, no evidence, no controlled studies mentioned. They have a link to something, but it goes nowhere.

Did you bother to read the paper? Well you didn't even bother to read this thread. Actually there's far more evidence for bias AGAINST boys in the school system over the past few decades. That's obvious and well-documented. The education was deliberately and systematically changed to give females a...

Ok. Nothing there whatsoever about any studies being done on it. If orchestras practiced gender bias they would only be shooting themselves in the foot. Did you read the thread? The example you were commenting about was the opposite of what the research found to be true. PC strikes again. By all me...