Interesting Gender Perspective

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One of my friends has a research lab at a major university...half of the grad students and post-docs he's hired are women. But...he's gay, so perhaps he also has a different perspective on people's innate capabilities.

I'm glad Dr. Barres spoke out, and that it's sparking some debate in the scientific community. Good on him!

Actual quote from a Swedish newpaper:

The organisation where Myriam's working has 14 employees; 11 men, 2 women, and one homosexual.

I swear to the Goddess.

 

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Actual quote from a Swedish newpaper:

The organisation where Myriam's working has 14 employees; 11 men, 2 women, and one homosexual.

I swear to the Goddess.

Sounds about right. *sigh*

 

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Sounds about right. *sigh*

Reminds me of the time I got a look at my birth certificate when I was 14. My gender was correctly marked as "Female", but what shocked me was that apart from the alternative "Male", there was also a THIRD alternative; "Other"!
This was something our biology teacher had never mentioned in class!!!

 

[R. Richard]

Reminds me of the time I got a look at my birth certificate when I was 14. My gender was correctly marked as "Female", but what shocked me was that apart from the alternative "Male", there was also a THIRD alternative; "Other"!
This was something our biology teacher had never mentioned in class!!!

There was the case of Stanisława Walasiewicz [for some unknown reason, she mostly used the name Stella Walsh.] In the 1932 Summer Olympics she represented Poland, running in the ladies 100 meters. She equalled the then current world record of 11.9 seconds, a feat she repeated in the final, which she won.

Stella Walsh was a bystander in an armed robbery in Cleveland, Ohio in December 4, 1980. She was killed, at age 69. An autopsy showed that she possessed male genitalia, although some sources suggest she also displayed some female characteristics. Detailed investigation also revealed that she had the XY pair of chromosomes.

A controversy on her gender remains unsolved, as the situation is further complicated by the fact that many earlier documents, including her birth record, state she was a woman.

The situation with Stanisława Walasiewicz is not unknown. In 1960, Steina Erickson won the Ladies Olympic downhill skiing event. This last, despite the fact that Steina Erickson was seriously ill at the time. Immediately after the Olympics Steina entered a hospital in Switzerland where it was discovered that the major problem was that Steina was actually a man, although Steina had both male and female genitals. A quick bit of surgery put things right and Stein Erickson [same person, more or less] later fathered a child.