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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 750739" data-attributes="member: 7240">Well, every federal election, we get these stats in our local media. It'll be about two years before we get another election and thereby the next set of updates in these stats from the media. Our demographic census data breakdowns are expected from the 2001 census soon so maybe I'll be able to give you more current stats soon. It may also be that Columbus has indeed surpassed us and the media here are just chauvinistically hanging on to outdated stats. It may also be that we're engaged in an apples & oranges debate because different percentages of our total urban areas' populations are within the core municipality. For instance, Vancouver's per capita gay population stats may be upwardly skewed because the gay community is concentrated in the City of Vancouver, which comprises only 25% of the Greater Vancouver population.Or it may be that Vancouver is still closer than Columbus to being North America's gay utopia. OK -- back to the gender debate:To continue to respond to those disagreeing with me on the original subject of this thread, as in Al's latest post, seasong said it best: I am offering useful generalizations not true generalizations. I think I've repeatedly indicated that I believe female behaviour and motivation to be more diverse than male behaviour and motivations. And yes, I acknowledge that there exist amongst women all types of people. I just find it distasteful and unpleasant to have men playing extremely masculine women or comic book charicatures of women even though such women exist. Thus, I think the "everyone's different" doctrine is insufficient justification for prohibiting GMs from making decisions to prevent people harming suspension of disbelief.Finally, Gez's assertion that gender differences should be treated identically to all other differences between groups of people (such as differences of height) is not supported by any credible academic work. Read a Women's Studies text book if you want to understand why your suggestion is ridiculous.</blockquote>

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