• Guaragaito (he/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 days ago

    Is there literally anything only men like?

    There are male biased things, ie. gaming, woodworking, wingsuiting, cimbing etc.

    but are there any things literally only males like?

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      15 days ago

      Urinating standing up. Its so much messier when you’re a woman and writing half your friends name in snow with it is almost impossible.

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      15 days ago

      Some obscure math, and obscure programming languages. I dunno, but it feels like no women would be dumb enough to devote tons of effort into things like haskell-adjacent languages.

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      15 days ago

      Yes there is:

      Only men like nothing.

      Explanation:

      “Only XYZ like ABC” is equivalent to: “Everyone who likes ABC is also an XYZ.”

      Since everybody likes at least something, there is no one who likes nothing. The statement: “Everyone who likes nothing is also a man” is true because the “Everyone who likes nothing” part results in 0 people. And it’s true to say that everyone in a group of 0 people is a man. It’s also true that everyone in a group of 0 people is not a man.

      But other than vacuous truths, no sentence stating “Only man like XYZ” is true.

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          This woman likes set theory because she was involved in a set theory workshop:

          https://dmg.tuwien.ac.at/sandramueller/conferences/

          But you’re kind of right that it’s not great that math is still a strongly male dominated field. There is not a single woman’s name in the Wikipedia article for set theory, where I first tried to find a counterexample.

          Also, you don’t necessarily need set theory to arrive at vacuous truths. Logic is enough:

          FALSE => [statement]

          Still, I think vacuous truths are fun because they are meaningless. Especially because they have to be considered in math or else your carefully constructed proof becomes invalid.

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            15 days ago

            Well, considering the question was, “is there anything that literally only males like”, and there are in fact women that sexually assault other women, then yes, you are wrong.

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                14 days ago

                While certainly a minority, they are not negligible. Especially so in prisons, where inmate-on-inmate SA can be over 3 times higher for women than for men.

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                  14 days ago

                  where inmate-on-inmate SA can be over 3 times higher for women than for men.

                  You’re referring to the fact that women are 3 times as likely to be victim of SA, not the offender.

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                    I can’t tell if I’m tired and missing your point, or if you misunderstood me.

                    I am specifically referring to inmate-on-inmate SA. As prisons are typically segregated by gender, the offender and victims would both be female in this case. Guard-on-inmate SA on the other hand is mostly male offenders as one might unfortunately expect.

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                    If it’s inmate-on-inmate, and they’re in a woman’s prison, I think it’s safe to assume that both victim and offender were women, no?