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I do think the original commenter could've elaborated more, but asking for citations in this type of thread seems strange. It's not like politics where you can link to a statement from <representative of political party> to prove a point. There is no single representative of men or women.


> It's not like politics where you can link to a statement from <representative of political party> to prove a point.

Yes, a quote from a party representative is not the kind of evidence called for, but “women control the culture” is a fact claim which does call for some kind of evidence (either directly provided or as a citation to someone else who has provided it.)


No, but this is the sort of thing you'd expect the social sciences to have published research on if it were at all true.


Fair. I guess I wanted them to explain a statement that, to me, seems both wrong and ludicrous, and basically a dogwhistle.




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