Thanks for calling a man with a honest opinion a troll. It always improves the situation, don't you think?
I am surprised at the amount of people here thinking that men and women are equal, while women are usually (statistically speaking) better motivated, better at complex tasks, less prone to violence and more empathic than men...
Yeah... I'm calling BS on this until you provide a reliable source. As in, not wikipedia, and not a source that paints everything in a feminist light.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/education/09college.html?_r=1
http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/07/30/2009-07-30_who_makes_the_better_boss_men_or_women.html
http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/03/women-really-are-better-than-men-at.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080220104244.htm
http://www.qatarliving.com/node/1429919
http://www.forbes.com/2010/05/10/women-doctors-patients-mother-forbes-woman-well-being-health.html
Because you were apparently in a hurry, I wasn't able to get more references (or to be more specific, more specific search terms), but these should at least shed some light on my reasoning.
*Cracks knuckles, flexes fingers* So let's get down to it, shall we?
Link 1: Fail perception of an article is fail. At the beginning, it is quite clear about how of the sample they had, most of the boys were only in it for the subject they went to uni for, and the experience. (When I go to uni, I'm going to be in it for Electrical Engineering and related subjects, not in-depth studying of the migration patterns of the moose.) The example of the girl was the cream-of-the-crop, while the guy was someone who wanted to get what he wanted to know, and the fun, and nothing else. If you'd taken the time to read or even skim more than the first page, you'd know that professors say that men also dominate the top when they want to. ("Professors interviewed on several campuses say that in their experience men seem to cluster in a disproportionate share at both ends of the spectrum — students who are the most brilliantly creative, and students who cannot keep up.
"My best male students are every bit as good as my best female students," said Wendy Moffat, a longtime English professor at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. "But the range among the guys is wider.") A few paragraphs further down the page you find this little gem: "Many male students say with something resembling pride that they get by without much studying.
"If I take a class and never study, I can still get a B," said Scott Daniels, a 22-year-old at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. "I know that if I'd applied myself more, I would have had better grades.""
Later on in the article, you get a Ms.Smyers who concludes that because guys are more laid back at uni, it means they don't give a crap about life and think "they can sit back and relax and when they graduate, they'll still get a good job. They seem to think that if they have a firm handshake and speak properly, they'll be fine."" A few paragraphs up, you see this same woman dumped a guy because he tried to limit his gaming problem for her. Sure has people skills, huh?
Later on, it says something about how men screw up more, but is then quick to smother that argument with a simple explanation about how boys are, and how it gets labeled as a problem by teachers who are too lazy to handle it.
The rest of the article pretty much rambles about how guy-girl ratios are changing drastically, however at the end, we run into this: "Still, men in the work force have always done better in pay and promotions, in part because they tend to work longer hours, and have fewer career interruptions than women, who bear the children and most of the responsibility for raising them."
As the author of Dilbert put it, men are more willing to bend over and kiss ass.
Result: Lots of strawmen, nothing that helps your argument.
Link 2:Much shorter article this time. The intro quote even has an admittance to her irrational generalization of male bosses. Essentially all the rest says is that women empathize and communicate better. However we still get this one quote that emphasizes the difference between the male and female boss: "“The same behavior of a woman and man gets judged very differently,” Gallagher says. “If a male boss bangs his fist on the table and says, I want to get that done immediately, people say, well, he has what it takes. If a woman does it, people say, what’s with her? it must be her time of the month.”".
Result: Nothing at all. All it does is say how some women think they make better bosses.
Link 3: Another short article. Congrats. Females can tell faces apart easier.
Result: Girls get the novelty of better facial recognition. Woo.
Link 4: Slightly longer, and more scientific meat. Actually gave me hard facts about how women have better memory than men.
Result: Any more belief in women being better than men was utterly canceled out by the rest of the articles.
Link 5: ... Dear god this article sucks. But to make my point, have all the refutes.
- Yeah... no. And those aren't even Isreali.
- Once again with the memory thing. I'm starting to get the idea that it is the only thing they even remotely have over men.
- Have you ever seen a group of females working together? Just plain no.
- It's because girls jump at the slightest disgusting looking thing. Men suck it up and eat what tastes good.
- Oh hia memory thing.
- What would this be based off of?
- Communication. Otherwise known as gossip.
- Sigh. Memory.
- It's because the ones that don't do well are quick to drop it.
- Correction: They cope differently
Result: Things are not looking very pretty.
Link 6: Another one I can read without laughing out loud. So apparently patients showing more dominance over their female doctor helps them get better?("But what's really interesting is that patients respond differently to women in white coats than they do to men. Both female and male patients are more assertive with female doctors. They interrupt more, and they ask more questions.") Aye-aye captain Women-are-better. And it ends with the author saying they're neutral on the matter.
Results: No argument is even present to be refuted. Not helping.
Face it, you are claiming your opinions are facts. If you'd even taken the time to check your "sources" then you'd know how much fail they are.
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