[OT] I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King, Jr.

[James A. Donald]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 07:33:58AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
>> Even less can progs endure the disastrous consequences of applying the same
>> laws to men and women, and they have one hundred and one hypocritical and
>> ingenious ways of ensuring that different sexes are subject to different
>> laws de jure, for example VAWA and Title IX,

On 1/16/2017 10:05 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> Many on this list (myself included) do not live an America - can you
> please summarize in a half sentence, the difference between VAWA and
> Title IX?

Not in half a sentence:

VAWA:  Violence Against Women Act.
effect is that in any dispute, police are required to assume the man is 
in the wrong and the woman in the right.

Title IX:  is a portion of the United States Education Amendments of 
1972, prohibiting discrimination against women.   The major absurd 
effect is that women are supposed to be just as athletic as men, and if 
they are not, male physical activity must be punished and discouraged. 
Also effectively discourages teaching geometry or any area of academics 
were women perform egregiously worse than men, but by far the biggest 
and most absurd effect is on sports, because that is the area where 
female underperformance is most egregious.

But academic areas where women perform better than men, or it can be 
pretended that they do, are just fine.  Title IX prohibits 
discrimination against women, but not against men.  Any unequal outcomes 
to women's disfavor must be the result of evil hateful misogyny, but any 
unequal outcomes to women's favor must be the result of the fact that 
women are wonderful.

The practical consequence of Title IX is that despite the fact that 
women perform lower than men on IQ tests, and have considerably less 
motive than men to get an education, women are massively over 
represented in education.  (Which under Title IX does not count as 
discrimination, though any under representation of women in in any 
specific area, such as sports, does count as discrimination.)