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I wanted to fact check myself.
Despite attempts to increase gender parity in politics, global efforts have struggled to ensure equal female representation. This is likely tied to implicit gender biases against women in authority. In this work, we present a comprehensive study of gender biases that appear in online political discussion. To this end, we collect 10 million comments on Reddit in conversations about male and female politicians, which enables an exhaustive study of automatic gender bias detection. We address not only misogynistic language, but also other manifestations of bias, like benevolent sexism in the form of seemingly positive sentiment and dominance attributed to female politicians, or differences in descriptor attribution. Finally, we conduct a multi-faceted study of gender bias towards politicians investigating both linguistic and extra-linguistic cues. We assess 5 different types of gender bias, evaluating coverage, combinatorial, nominal, sentimental and lexical biases extant in social media language and discourse. Overall, we find that, contrary to previous research, coverage and sentiment biases suggest equal public interest in female politicians. Rather than overt hostile or benevolent sexism, the results of the nominal and lexical analyses suggest this interest is not as professional or respectful as that expressed about male politicians. Female politicians are often named by their first names and are described in relation to their body, clothing, or family; this is a treatment that is not similarly extended to men. On the now banned far-right subreddits, this disparity is greatest, though differences in gender biases still appear in the right and left-leaning subreddits. We release the curated dataset to the public for future studies.
"Overall, we find that, contrary to previous research, coverage and sentiment biases suggest equal public interest in female politicians. Rather than overt hostile or benevolent sexism, the results of the nominal and lexical analyses suggest this interest is not as professional or respectful as that expressed about male politicians. Female politicians are often named by their first names and are described in relation to their body, clothing, or family; this is a treatment that is not similarly extended to men"
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Mostly targeted at our Greek friend, an a bit towards Berz. It got worse as the chain read through
I don't think people tend to comment on male politicians hairstyles and attractiveness. Mocking looks is one thing (President Orange and his hair), but tying it to attractiveness, I don't think so much.
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Kirby said Ukrainians dont want their children taken away and abducted
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Originally posted by Geronimo View Post
Here's lazy bing prompt estimates of *total casualties on all sides* for all of those conflicts:
| War | Highest estimate | Most commonly cited estimate | Lowest estimate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Afghanistan | 241,000¹ | 171,000² | 110,000³ |
| Iraq | 1,033,000⁴ | 461,000 | 151,000 |
| Yemen | 233,000 | 112,000 | 56,000 |
| Libya | 25,000 | 10,000 | 4,700 |
| Syria | 606,000 | 388,000 | 250,000 |
| Somalia | 500,000 | 300,000 | 100,000 |
| Ethiopia | 52,800 | 52,800 | 52,800 |
| Ukraine | 13,200 | 13,200 | 13,200 |
| **Total** | **2.7 million** | **1.5 million** | **0.7 million**
Source: Conversation with Bing, 8/15/2023
(1) Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report .... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...hanistan-iraq/.
(2) Human Costs of U.S. Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War .... https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/...1/WarDeathToll.
(3) How Death Outlives War - Watson Institute for International and Public .... https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/...t%20Deaths.pdf.
(4) Latest Figures | Costs of War. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures.
How the hell can the US, let alone Nuland be responsible for 2/3 of the high estimate? 🙄
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Originally posted by Berzerker View PostCrap huh... Actually the number I saw for the US death toll was ~4 1/2 million, but I dont know when they started counting or how indirectly our hands are on the instruments of death.
Madeleine Albright said a 1/2 million dead Iraqi children were worth the sanctions and that was before we invaded again. We could ask Victoria about that, she was already killing people for the neocon ideology
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Crap huh... Actually the number I saw for the US death toll was ~4 1/2 million, but I dont know when they started counting or how indirectly our hands are on the instruments of death.
Madeleine Albright said a 1/2 million dead Iraqi children were worth the sanctions and that was before we invaded again. We could ask Victoria about that, she was already killing people for the neocon ideology
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Originally posted by Berzerker View Post
at least 2 million... Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Ukraine, and now she's in Niger.
| War | Highest estimate | Most commonly cited estimate | Lowest estimate |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Afghanistan | 241,000¹ | 171,000² | 110,000³ |
| Iraq | 1,033,000⁴ | 461,000 | 151,000 |
| Yemen | 233,000 | 112,000 | 56,000 |
| Libya | 25,000 | 10,000 | 4,700 |
| Syria | 606,000 | 388,000 | 250,000 |
| Somalia | 500,000 | 300,000 | 100,000 |
| Ethiopia | 52,800 | 52,800 | 52,800 |
| Ukraine | 13,200 | 13,200 | 13,200 |
| **Total** | **2.7 million** | **1.5 million** | **0.7 million**
Source: Conversation with Bing, 8/15/2023
(1) Post-9/11 wars have contributed to some 4.5 million deaths, report .... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...hanistan-iraq/.
(2) Human Costs of U.S. Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War .... https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/...1/WarDeathToll.
(3) How Death Outlives War - Watson Institute for International and Public .... https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/...t%20Deaths.pdf.
(4) Latest Figures | Costs of War. https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/figures.
How the hell can the US, let alone Nuland be responsible for 2/3 of the high estimate? 🙄Last edited by Geronimo; August 15, 2023, 23:18.
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WTF do her looks matter? Feels like casual misogyny being expressed here.
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