Comments on: Morning Cup of Links: Natural Gender Inequality

By: Khatti

Khatti — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0000

The Matt video is not a fake. You could tell that his “expose” was a total satire with increasingly incredulous explanations—especially the Boeing plane in the pool and the robots that they put new skins on for every scene.
At first I was horrified that it might be a fake, since it is one of my favorite videos, but then as I continued to watch it became apparent what Matt was doing. Satire is lost on some people, I guess.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:27:00 +0000

Orion, you should watch the linked video. You can skip ahead if you need to.

By: AB

AB — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:25:00 +0000

@ Orion:

The video is not a fake. At first it seems very possible that it is fake, but as he continues on, especially when mentioning how they put a Boeing airplane in a pool and then just filtered the image, it is easy to tell he is just joking.

It is all real! :)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:34:00 +0000

I cannot believe the gender inequality article.

Yes, people are different. Equal work, equal time, equal ends deserves equal pay.

It sickens me that someone would try to use science to argue against ethics.

By: Orion

Orion — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:14:00 +0000

I actually find it very sad the Matt video was fake. It’s a beautiful video. Bummer.

By: Mensch

Mensch — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:47:00 +0000

Shouldn’t Headline #2 have read “outbox” instead of “inbox”?

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:43:00 +0000

As a philosopher, I occasionally get taken to task by a sciencey type for what I do. Get rid of all this unverifiable talk about right and wrong, and embrace naturalism, they say, and everything will be right and fair. But would it? The gender equality thing is why many philosophers don’t do that– we’ve looked at what that sort of ethical system would entail, and, excuse the imprecise terms, it just doesn’t seem ~right.~

By: gus

gus — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:10:00 +0000

Headline number ten should have been number one.