[ExI] female heros?

[SR Ballard]

Psychologists are about 65% women, or around that mark.
Psychiatrists are now about evenly split.

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 9:28 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 8:04 PM, SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And despite outnumbering men in many institutions of post-secondary
>> education they continue to choose lower paying majors, careers, and
>> specialties.
>>
>> I am not interested enough to do the research to find others, but
> psychology, for one, went majority female quite a while back, and that's
> not a low level profession.
>
> bill w
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>> For example, women are more likely to become nurses and men are more
>> likely to become doctors. When women become either nurses or doctors, they
>> choose lower paying specialties than men.
>>
>> Anecdote (for it's super low worth) -- I loved math all through school,
>> and tutored college students while in middle and high school. Men would
>> basically never comment on it at all. Women would always come up with a
>> remark like, "Oh, math is so hard, I could never be good at that." I never,
>> ever heard this from men, even when they were objectively shit at math.
>> Same thing when I lifted weights competitively in High School. Men didn't
>> say anything, but women sure had a lot to say about it, usually negative.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure how much is actually men keeping women down and women
>> keeping each other down, at least in my age group.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 11:49 PM, William Flynn Wallace <
>> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> In colleges and professional schools girls outnumber boys in some of
>>> them.  There will be more women getting jobs relative to men, and that
>>> means more money and that means power.  To elect people, to direct taxes to
>>> your liking.  We almost had a woman president and probably will have soon.
>>>
>>> Women's time has been very slow getting here but it is still
>>> progressing.  Getting to any kind of equality we won't see in our
>>> lifetimes.  The only thing keeping women down in the future will be fascism
>>> if it increases here.
>>>
>>> Men and their religions have kept women down ab ovo.  Pun intended.  Men
>>> won't give up easily.  You'll have to fight them all the way.  Male ego has
>>> to change but that too will take a long time.  And so forth.
>>>
>>> bill w
>>>
>>> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:51 PM, SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> For example Vulvodynia
>>>> https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/vulvodynia/sy
>>>> mptoms-causes/syc-20353423
>>>>
>>>> There are other, similarly mysterious ailments.
>>>>
>>>> Another one is that there are pills which increase male libido, but
>>>> similar pills don't really exist for women.
>>>>
>>>> There's not as must research into menstrual management as you might
>>>> expect, but it's been getting a lot better recently.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 8:49 AM, William Flynn Wallace <
>>>> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Female sexuality & sexual health is more complicated than just
>>>>> orgasms.  And those are the parts of female sexuality and health that are
>>>>> not well explored.
>>>>> sr ballard wrote
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, of course.  Can you give me some sort of idea what you are
>>>>> talking about?  bill w
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 3:38 AM, SR Ballard <sen.otaku at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 12:14 PM, William Flynn Wallace <
>>>>>> foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I taught a class in Human Sexuality in the 80s and 90s and had no
>>>>>>> trouble at all finding research on orgasms of all types.  The first one I
>>>>>>> found was John Watson, who got thrown out of Johns Hopkins University
>>>>>>> because of his sexual experiments with a female grad student (Rosalie
>>>>>>> Raynor of the Watson and Raynor publication) in a basement where they were
>>>>>>> hooked up to various recording devices.  I reckon they did not publish that
>>>>>>> one.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think if you'll look, you'll find gobs of orgasm research.  What
>>>>>>> questions do you want answered?  How about Freud's about the difference
>>>>>>> between a vaginal and clitoral orgasm?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> bill w
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Female sexuality & sexual health is more complicated than just
>>>>>> orgasms.  And those are the parts of female sexuality and health that are
>>>>>> not well explored.
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