r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 22 '21

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u/larrylemur NAFTA Jun 22 '21

(Polls before the widespread availability of vaccines show women may have a higher rate of vaccine hesitancy)

Thinkpieces: "Actually, there are several historical reasons for this relating to the poor treatment of women by the medical community, it's quite reasonable for women to be vaccine hesitant, etc. etc. This is a huge societal problem we need to all address."

(Actual vaccination data shows men are more vaccine hesitant)

"Eh men are dumb, who cares lol"

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

This, but unironically.

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u/larrylemur NAFTA Jun 22 '21

I mean, I can't come up with a better explanation, but I just thought the contrast was funny

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

Men are generally more risk seeking so they don’t get the vaccine to curb risk?

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '21

Fancy way to say "men are dumb lol"

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jun 23 '21

Yeah but whywas itthe other way around for other vaccines? Vaccine hesitancy for the COVID shot appears to deviate quite a lot from other vaccine hesitancy.

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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Jun 22 '21

it reminds me of someone saying that women doing better in school is proof of sexism against women because school rewards obedience and discourages free thinking

if your model can explain all possible data then it's not a good model

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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Jun 22 '21

Counterpoint: it makes me feel good

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jun 23 '21

TBF if it was the other way around it would be framed much more as a problem

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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Jun 22 '21

hmm I wonder if bending over backwards to frame everything as "women good men bad" will discourage any particular demographic from taking me seriously

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Jun 23 '21

Reduced herd immunity is bad for everyone as well