How to turn reasonable concerns into outlandishly unreasonable interventions by overtheorizing. Just give kids a couple of different sport choices. washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/06
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the hard part is identifying the things where this reasoning is common place then challenging those assumptions. blowback is real
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The model of oppression is fine. Applying it to dodgeball without empirical evidence that it’s an actual problem with consequences (eg bullied kids being forced to play and being demonstrably traumatized in statistically significant ways) is malpractice of sorts.
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if someone made claims that pornography was harming children who watched it (dehumanizing women, inflating sex expectations, etc) would you apply similar expectations of statistical significance or take those claims at face value? I would but it's quite unpopular I find.
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Actually yes. Social science is not math. Purely analytical arguments without grounding in empirical evidence is kinda meaningless. I’d expect at least anecdotal evidence.
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that's good.
it's similar to the "video games cause violence" arguments from the 90s but now everything points to there being less violence in kids
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