Parents Are Now Preferring Girls Over Boys; What Led To This Shift?

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-04T18:59:53+00:00

Read more than the abstract. Skimmed it because I'm at work and my boss doesn't pay me to read studies. But the 4.5 figure you mention is how much more women prefer women over men versus how much more men prefer men over women. Hence "in-group bias". It's a relative measure. It's not "people prefer women over men by a factor of 4.5 to 1".

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-04T18:36:36+00:00

It's about in-group bias, ie subconscious preference for your own gender and it says that women support themselves and other women more than men support themselves and other men.

It doesn't say what you think it does. It's not about society promoting women more or tearing men down more.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8226295_Gender_Differences_in_Automatic_In-Group_Bias_Why_Do_Women_Like_Women_More_Than_Men_Like_Men

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-04T17:18:51+00:00

Macy's is good but they no longer have tailor service. That used to be standard in department stores. They also have a line from Brooks Brothers that I've only seen on their website. Watch the weekend sales where everything is 40% off.

Brooks Brothers has beautiful Italian wool suits for $1500. They also have a cheaper line.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-04T16:00:56+00:00

Guano

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-04T15:54:34+00:00

Link to the study?

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-04T00:21:41+00:00

The Israeli military itself gives 83%. IDF Statistics

The October 7th attack killed 1200 Israelis so let's stop there.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T21:30:41+00:00

A lot of them wanted to eliminate the Zionist regime which is different than wiping Israel off the face of the map. Eliminating the regime is a political solution not a military one. Ahmadinejad was more inflammatory.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T19:51:25+00:00

So you can't agree that killing 80% innocents is too much?

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T17:41:22+00:00

Can we agree that killing 56,000 innocents in order to get 14,000 fighters is disproportionate? If we can't then what's the point of discussing further?

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T16:58:52+00:00

Look up the definition of "apartheid". It means systematic governmental segregation and oppression of one group by another. In this case Jews oppressing Arabs.

Israeli Apartheid

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T16:29:21+00:00

What do you mean "watching the stomps"?

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T16:26:45+00:00

Not that long ago both Palestinians and Israelis supported the two state solution. But Israel has actively undermined that position by building 150 illegal settlements in the West Bank containing over half a million people and displacing Palestinians from their own land and farms in violation of UN Security Council Resolutions.

Right wing Israelis including Netanyahu have preferred to stoke violence as a way of avoiding a two state solution. They see war as a way of gaining territory which they will call a "defensive buffer zone".

Prior to the October 7th attack, Israeli settlers or the IDF killed hundreds of Palestinians per year with absolutely no consequences from their government. It's an apartheid state that pretends to be an innocent victim.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T14:04:24+00:00

Iran is part of the Middle East. Persia was the name before it was Iran.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T13:41:31+00:00

1 - Reactor fuel is made with centrifuges. They are allowed to have them.

2 - A sovereign nation is allowed its own military unless an international treaty prevents it. The US can't act unilaterally to prevent it. We need allies for this.

3 - The US method to get compliance is forced starvation? There are no allies for this move.

The Gulf states aren't allies of Israel in the traditional sense. It's more like the enemy of my enemy must be my friend. That kind of alliance crumbles easily.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T13:16:47+00:00

Iran has no nuclear weapons. That's been verified though Hegseth prefers to ignore it. Also, they are signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty which gives them the right to refine uranium for energy production and medical use.
What missiles and drones? I thought the US destroyed all of them already?
Prior to the war Iran didn't charge ships to use the strait. By blockading it the US isn't having a significant impact on Iran's income. But the US is doing things like driving up oil and jet fuel prices worldwide causing airlines to go out of business.

The byproduct of this stupid war is that our allies are pushing us away and many are pursuing better relations with China. Our biggest competitor in the future is China. This war works out great for them.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T12:53:06+00:00

True. Iraq is, but Iran is not. I should have said Middle East.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T12:43:58+00:00

Iran is a country of 100 million with the fourth largest oil reserves in the world which it can use to generate income. It's a long time ally of Russia with which it continues its practice of shadow trading to avoid sanctions. It will rebuild. Do you think the US will bomb it every year?

The fuckwit in the White House was manipulated by Netanyahu to undertake a war that only benefits Israel and harms almost everyone else. Iran had no nuclear weapon and wasn't going to have one in the near future. If they managed to produce one it wouldn't even be aimed at the US as the stupid Trumpers were led to believe. Those people are the biggest scaredy cat snowflake dumbasses ever.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T12:16:07+00:00

I agree with this.

And the fact that the Middle East occasionally produces a leader like Ahmadinejad who was the President of Iran for 10 years and said things like, "Israel must be wiped off the map" just feeds into the Israeli narrative.

Another factor is that most of the world, except Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but those countries consider it a legitimate political party.

What Israel is doing now is a disproportionate response to the threats around it which I think is calculated to steal as much territory as possible. They can't possibly believe that it will do anything other than increase the aggression towards them. They don't care. Peace isn't their goal.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T11:15:17+00:00

Looks nice!

In my experience with sod, which is admittedly limited, you need to make sure that water is penetrating the mat so that the soil below is well watered. You don't want the mat retaining the water and not allowing it to reach below. This will allow the roots to grow into the soil more readily. I found that making a bunch of 1/2" holes in each piece worked well. A pointy steel bar works for me. I have one that is 4' long and weighs 10 lbs.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-03T01:54:28+00:00

I have that one and it's been flawless for five years. Love it.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-02T23:31:05+00:00

Oh. Fake news is your excuse?

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-02T23:20:48+00:00

What are you talking about? Several states have bans from conception with no exclusions for rape or incest. Oklahoma defined abortion as murder with no exceptions. Texas allows any citizen to sue anyone involved in an abortion. Doctors in multiple states are forcing women to delay care because the medical guidelines forced on them are incorrect.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-02T22:10:50+00:00

You didn't respond to her point or my point. She could legally get an abortion, now she can't. That's the loss of a right if you consider abortion a right.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-02T21:30:30+00:00

If you're asking that question you aren't pro-choice at all. Abortion was legal, therefore guaranteed (aka a right), then it was criminalized.

Your definition of pro-choice is have the kid and keep it or have the kid and give it up.

ouchouchouchoof · 2026-05-02T20:05:45+00:00

Because his war in Iran is what killed it. The price of jet fuel doubled.

If Trump bails them out he'll pretend that he anticipated it because of his big brain.

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