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RisaPlata
05/26/09

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I must say, reading these comments, I am shocked -- SHOCKED -- that so many of you seem to believe you do not fit these categories. I mean, it's almost as if stereotypes, even if "proven" true for a majority of the people being discussed, do not even come close to explaining who a person is or any of the complicated facets of their personalities or experiences that make them who they are! It's like saying that stereotypes are worthless and it's stupid to pretend otherwise!

Silly wimminz. I'm going to go find some menz so they can tell me funny jokes and make me laugh. Even if I don't think they are funny, I will laugh, because The Mirror tells me they are funny and I don't want to appear stupid.
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Skellatrix
05/26/09

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I *love* how everyone is complaining at "Women are better at working in teams." If you actually read that section it says that women are better at making business deals and men are the ones who are more likely to lie, cheat, and stab you in the back! Can't we just celebrate the positive aspects of this bullshit ('cuz that's all it really is) instead of immediately declaring how awful and wrong it is?

Funny, I'm not usually a half-full kind of girl.
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green_ipod
05/26/09

@Skellatrix: I think the reason people don't like that is because in the corporate world (for better or for worse, and I think worse) that is almost an insult. It suggests that a person isn't tough enough or self-possessed enough to lead. It doesn't really prize agency, it prizes being nice and cooperative. Just my two cents, but it reminds me of the patronizing things said to and about women in business.
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Skellatrix
05/26/09

@green_ipod: Oh, I hear you- it's like when people say that women are passive and let others walk all over them. And if there is a real cutthroat business woman, she's a barracuda, or a bitch, or some other kind of animal. But in the actual article it said that women are better at business deals. But who knows, maybe there's some subtext like, we fellatio our way to the top.
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brinkswomanship
05/26/09

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"The Mirror attempts to forge a truce between the sexes by naming men or women "winners" in various categories, all backed up by scientific research."

Oh man, this is a GENIUS tactic! Think about all the other possible truces that could be forged by assigning winners and losers...

Israel: better at military occupation!

Palestine: better at suicide bombing!

Democrats: better at killing babies!

Republicans: better at killing foreigners!

Callie: better at kissing women!

Izzie: better at kissing married men!

It's positively foolproof.
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SomeAuthorGirl
05/26/09

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I guess we're all a bunch of mutants around here.

What's amusing to me (and it's only because it's still early enough for me to not be entirely put off by the world) is how this garbage perpetuates itself.

1. I hate shopping. No one ever believes me... until they try to go shopping with me and I act like a pissed off and bored 6 year old boy.
2. Frankly, I drive awesomely. The only people that think I'm a shitty driver are boyfriends; my father and brothers are perfectly aware that I am, indeed, spectacular (though they do point out that I drive "like a guy," grr).
3. Teams are for people that can't think for themselves.

Yeah, ok, 3 was tongue in cheek (mostly). Anyone who knows me is aware that I hate doing shit by committee.

Going to change my name to SomeAuthorInexplicableWomanMut....
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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
05/26/09

@SomeAuthorGirl: Yes. We are mutated mutatey mutants. There is something wrong with all of us, and any woman, who doesn't slobber over shoes or drive while painting our toenails and talking on the phone at the same time. According to this "study" that is. Fuck that! I'm skilled at aggressive driving, fixing shit McGyver style, using common sense, and being independent and badass. I can box, I can make cool noises, I can fight infections like nobody's business which I know because I hardly ever get sick. I don't like pink and I think dolls are scary and stuffed animals make me uncomfortable.

I guess I'm a man. But with boobs and a vagina.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
05/26/09

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Well, that's almost entirely crap. I know my way around the grocery store because I spend half my free time there. And I'm a far better driver than my husband, and hate to ask for directions. Navigating by landmarks noticeably runs in the men in my family. They all do it. God forbid someone cut down that lightning-struck tree at the fork in the road, or my uncle will be halfway through New York before he even realizes he left northeastern Connecticut.
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Rare Affinity
05/26/09

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Men being better at dieting than women on average has nothing to do with their greater control and everything to do with their different body shapes. Women are predisposed to deposit body fat around their hips and breasts. That is why if you have a man and a woman who start off with the same weight and height, it will be the man who tends to lose weight fastest if they consume the same amount of calories and do the same exercise.
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bluebears
05/26/09

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"found they rely on landmarks to get around"

I admit that I do this all the time but I am confused as to why this makes me a "worse" driver than a man? What does that even have to do with driving per se?
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Snowbunny
05/26/09

@bluebears: Knowing where you're going and how to get there is SOOO lame and woman-ie.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
05/26/09

@bluebears: And somehow the idea that navigating by landmarks makes a person drive more slowly, which also makes no sense, determines the quality of their driving? Because in order to be a good driver, one must be in a tremendous hurry all the time?
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Jack_Burton
05/26/09

@bluebears: I agree - are they saying men use maps or GPS more?

I mean, lighting a shop on fire and then trying to reference it later is probably not as useful as recalling that the post office is across from the Town Square.
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Snowbunny
05/26/09

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Fighting infection is actually something I am very proud of. Thank you, stereotypes, for preventing me from getting staph infections in open wounds.
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Whiskey and Popcorn
05/26/09

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Men can fail at dieting. A fond childhood memory of mine is riding my dad's goody CLOSET and eating myself silly, and him never finding me out because there was just so.much.candy!
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daisen-in
05/26/09

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Also, how in the goddamn hell does using "spatial landmarks" make women poor drivers, by the Mirror's leap in logic? Why then are insurance rates higher for young men? It must be because stop signs and traffic lights count as "spatial landmarks."
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thecameralovesyou
05/26/09

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I dispute the telling jokes thing. My husband is the WORST joke teller ever. But oddly if anyone finds him funny, it's other men. And me and all of my sisters and mom are sitting there like "...Really?"

And how did they do "scientific research" on joke telling anyway?
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vamusical
05/26/09

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I am a better driver than any male I know. It results from driving daily in Georgetown. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Mirror.
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Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.
05/26/09

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I'm a woman and I am exceptionally good at driving, especially at night and on highways. And I am extremely possessive of my car.
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daisen-in
05/26/09

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I would dearly love to see the "scientific research" that indicates that women are biologically predisposed to shopping. It must be the "OMG shoes!" gene. So insulting.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/26/09

@daisen-in: This is why evolutionary psychology is often a load of crap.
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daisen-in
05/26/09

@Flackette Goes Retro: I get my daily exercise by thinking about how infuriating evolutionary psychology is- always gets the ol' heart rate up!
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Snowbunny
05/26/09

@daisen-in: It is located two spots away from the ZOMG FIBER YOGURT gene. They are genetically linked. You either love shoes AND yogurt or you are a feminazi boner killer.
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morninggloria
05/26/09

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I always assumed that the Battle of the Sexes was not Science-based, but MTV Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet-based.
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