MRAs and mental illness - blaming it on women

[Albadross]

Recently a friend started a social media campaign to find her homeless brother who is addicted to drugs and has several severe mental illnesses.

It got on Buzzfeed, where some absolute cunt had posted saying that it was all because of selfish feminists who shy away from taking care of their children, blah blah, you know the MRA line.

Now I get that people who think this way are obviously projecting, but it still makes me furious that anyone could be such a complete twat - even going as far as questioning why my friend's mother wasn't in any of the photos and suggesting it was her fault for not being there.

I've recently been attacked by men saying that people that have BPD (borderline personality disorder) as I do are inherently evil. They actually seem to make this part of their political ideology - to 'stand against' PDs as if they're something we sign up to voluntarily!

How many of these people are there lurking out there and how worried should I be about being doxxed or whatever just for discussion around sexism/feminism?

[whoputthecatout]

If this idea that it is the introduction of coursework that is giving the girls an edge, how come that when I took the 11+ - a sudden death no coursework exam - in the 1950s girls had to achieve higher marks than boys to get a grammar school place.? That was because if places had been allocated according to marks grammar schools would have seen girls take a majority of places and they wanted an even split.

Just asking.

[noblegiraffe]

This paper from the 80s examines the question of why girls perform better than boys in the 11+ and whether the higher pass mark for girls could be justified www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cmm/migrated/documents/gender-bias-in-selection.pdf

There is some suggestion that girls develop earlier than boys and that some of the selection tests may be biased towards girls' strengths.

Also, as an example of a 'sudden death' test in comparison to linear examinations, it's flawed as (back in the 50s at least) there was no preparation for the 11+. The usual suggestion that boys are better at last minute cramming and regurgitation where girls are better at ongoing assessment wouldn't be a factor here.

[Boolovessulley]

I would always answer the original post with where is the father?
It is as much his responsibility to parent a child as it is the mothers.

[whoputthecatout]

Thanks noble I have seen other research on the anomaly but not that paper. Very interesting.

[Dervel]

I have read, and this is by no means the last word on the subject (i.e. That this data is still being worked on and is contentious) that IQ whilst it averages out the same across genders there are more outliers amongst males.

That is to say more men sit at both the bottom and top of the pile. This would account for men dominating at the tops of a lot of fields whilst simultaneously making up the overwhelming number of criminals in prison. It also explains why women on average do better at school.

For the avoidance of doubt I am NOT making the case for biological determinism here, or insinuating anything about ladybrains. It could just as easily be mostly socialisation.

What I am comfortable asserting is that those of truly staggering intellects (wether male or female) are incredibly precious and rare, so I will always challenge assumptions that lead to gender discrimination.