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Re: IndyRAGE - All-Girls Comp+ - October 1
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Originally Posted by SoftwareBug2.0
People can be rude or mean for a myriad of reasons. A person being a part of a protected group is not the only one.
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I acknowledge this. And that would be fine if that's all that it was about. But the scenario was posted in the context of an example of gender bias by a person who knows more about its details than any of us, and the person who first took issue with the scenario then made it very explicitly about gender, by expressing doubt at the idea that Smiti would find enjoyment in spending time with them, and stating that things work much better when boys and girls play separately. Even if the people in the original story weren't discriminating on the basis of gender, it was certainly interpreted as such by readers on both sides here.
I apologize if any of my posts were jumping to conclusions.
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Last edited by Joe G. : 16-07-2016 at 01:50.
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