> My example was an interaction between two people, two individuals, and now you're talking about "discussing social groups".
Two people aren't a group?
> Racism and sexism is caused by considering people as "groups" and not individuals, and your solution is to... do more of the same.
You might actually really like Latour, who's a sociologist who argues that his entire field is wrong because of too much abstraction. I've been reading 'Reassembling the Social' lately, and it's fascinating.
That said, I actually disagree that the cause is 'thinking of people as groups,' but you of course are entitled to your opinion.
> All you are doing is entrenching division.
I'm not sure how advocating that we have more women in computer science is 'entrenching division.'
Sure. Sexual discrimination is bad, no matter who is being discriminated against.
It's about false equivalencies. You might want to see the last part of my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5178799
> My example was an interaction between two people, two individuals, and now you're talking about "discussing social groups".
Two people aren't a group?
> Racism and sexism is caused by considering people as "groups" and not individuals, and your solution is to... do more of the same.
You might actually really like Latour, who's a sociologist who argues that his entire field is wrong because of too much abstraction. I've been reading 'Reassembling the Social' lately, and it's fascinating.
That said, I actually disagree that the cause is 'thinking of people as groups,' but you of course are entitled to your opinion.
> All you are doing is entrenching division.
I'm not sure how advocating that we have more women in computer science is 'entrenching division.'