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Sex ratio on this site?

baden511
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Posted 11/06/09 - 06:21 PM:	#11
Arkady wrote: Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single significant female philosopher. Simone De Beauvoir is the only one I can think of.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 06:22 PM:	#12
Hypothesis wrote: I can pretend to be a woman if you like Picture spoils it
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Posted 11/06/09 - 06:44 PM:	#13
My hair is long enough for me to be a woman, that might help. This forum has under 5 active female members as far as I can tell.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 06:46 PM:	#14
"Women have more important things to do" Curious. We all get eaten by various stuff at one point or another. But I never really thought these things are gender determined. Anyhow... present!
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Posted 11/06/09 - 06:49 PM:	#15
I wonder how many transgendered philosophers there are per male/female philosophers?
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Posted 11/06/09 - 06:58 PM:	#16
Incision wrote: It's roughly one female for every over nine thousand males. Great, now I feel like there is something wrong with me.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 07:09 PM:	#17
Arkady wrote: Off the top of my head, I can't think of a single significant female philosopher. Ayn Rand, George Eliot, Judith Butler... umm... that's all I got.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 07:31 PM:	#18
Actually, this is an interesting question. Perhaps Philosophy is a silly topic for most females. There may be a real research topic here. Maybe there is an inherit difference in male and female brains that allow men to ponder questions that arise due to the inadequacy of language to describe certain topics. Perhaps most females already have an inherent answers to these questions and allow men to ponder them. Mainly to occupy our time so the we have something on our minds besides sex.

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Posted 11/06/09 - 07:52 PM:	#19
Women were denied the opportunity to pursue the same fields as men for most of human history, and in most cultures. They just recently acquired a significant amount of equality, and autonomy, and in some of the world -- they have a hell of a lot of catching up to do. In the example of the three female philosophers I gave, one of them even uses a male pen name in order to be taken seriously. Hard to overlook such obstacles toward equaling the male sex in philosophical tradition.
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Posted 11/06/09 - 08:43 PM:	#20
kkiiji wrote: My hair is long enough for me to be a woman, that might help. Um, for me, no, and I mean that as a compliment. kkiiji wrote: This forum has under 5 active female members as far as I can tell. I really thought it would be more than that. It seems it's significantly less than the proportion of female philosophy majors, which according to Women in Academics is about 1:2 in the US. jsidelko wrote: I wonder how many transgendered philosophers there are per male/female philosophers? Come to Thailand. It's about 1:1:1. Seriously though, I've taught in Universities over here and in the humanities it seems there are as many 'ladyboys' as straight men. It's quite striking. Wosret wrote: I'm kind of effeminate, does that count? You would fit in just fine over here
"Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man." Moses (Numbers 31:17-18) "Do not harm little children" - Satanic Bible. Rule no.9 "And the prize is: Eternal heavenly bliss. Or a peanut. Your choice."

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