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Late-term abortions are almost always for emergency cases anyway, regardless of what the law says. After all, the more advanced a pregancy is, the riskier it is for the woman to terminate it.
A procrastination in of itself
Note that I belive the ban still applies if the baby has died in the womb or if the birth would kill the baby anyway and perhaps seriously harm the mother.
I'm sure that there are other reasons for late term abortion in the US, especially as I believe some states make you have to wait a certain amount of time after deciding with deliberatly convoluted rules designed to run out the clock so that a women can't get an abortion.
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@ Antiteilchen, technicalities maybe? The two usually go hand-in-hand.
... Wait, your baby can die and you won't have a misscarriage? That is something I did not know.
And if the bill has no exceptions for medical concerns that is problem, but only rape and incest are specified, so it seems to be non-medical in this case.
Yup. Sometimes labor has to be induced to get it out, especially if the baby dies late term. Happened to my mom, and she does not recommend it.
edited 26th May '16 10:56:07 AM by Bur
i. hear. a. sound.
Lovley now I have even more reason to fear pregnacy.
>.<
Don't I know it. Her doctor even waited a full month after his heart stopped. Why? Who knows!! But unsurprisingly having a dead baby in you for a month is very bad for your health.
i. hear. a. sound.
A study suggests that 50% of misogynistic tweets come from other women.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36380247
Not really an expert here, but I don't see how two words can coralate to levels of misogyny.
edited 26th May '16 3:13:20 PM by Imca
How many of those tweets do they read for context? If it's complaining about slut shaming, calling someone an attention whore, or relating things that happened to them that day then it shouldn't count.
Yeah, I think they need to do more tests and over a longer period. They also need to filter for people using those terms sarcastically or using them to oppose abuse. Their current methods, if they are that simple, might be prone to false positives.
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But I still consider it a minor miracle that I managed to pass Graduate level Statistics, so I can't be sure.
edited 26th May '16 3:17:46 PM by Rationalinsanity
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You all do know the article linked to the actual study, right? I suggest reading it directly instead of relying on second-hand accounts of what they did.
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The Mod with the Migraine
Speaking of women online, female PC gamers now outnumber males, if only barely.
For all practical purposes it's a 50/50 split, but once you get into decimal places, female PC gamers do slightly outnumber males. Women represent 50.2 percent of PC gamers across all genres, including social (Facebook, Kongregate), versus 49.9 percent for men. The scales dip slightly further toward women when it comes to the RPG genre, with 53.6 percent of the market made up of women, while men represent 46.5 percent. In the FPS and MMO genres, however, 66 percent of players are men.
Senior analyst Stephanie Llamas wrote in a follow-up blog post that the growing popularity of "casual platforms" has helped reinforce the false assumption that women are primarily casual gamers. But the reality, says Llamas, is that half of female PC gamers in the US consider themselves either "mid-core or hardcore gamers."
"It is true that 58 percent of mobile gamers in the US are women. But it is also true that just over 50 percent of American PC gamers are women," she wrote. "In fact, women are the largest gaming demographic for PC role-playing games (54 percent) and they represent almost 40 percent of MMO and digital console gamers. So to say that women are just casual gamers is empirically false."
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It's one of those thins that can happen with rounding sometimes. 50.15 rounds to 50.2 and 49.85 rounds to 49.9 so even though the raw data ads up properly the rounded figures don't.
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Rounding error. The actual percentages are probably right around 50.15 and 49.85, both of which would be rounded up under normal math methods.
Anyway, I'm now in the minority (since I do play RPGs on PC), so...yay?
edited 26th May '16 4:52:49 PM by TotemicHero
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
Rounding discrepancy between the survey results and the significant figures published. Pretty typical.
Accounting for nonbinariness in a study like this is probably less so?
edited 26th May '16 4:56:19 PM by Noaqiyeum
The Revolution Will Not Be Tropeable
No results for strategy games (both turn-based and real-time)?
edited 26th May '16 4:57:51 PM by Quag15
Real Time Strategy is pretty dead.
My personal experience though within the modding community is heavily male dominated, but thats just anecdotal and not an actual study.
Amused
Admittedly not many people in the modding communities make there gender obvious. I have heard of quite a few female ones in the Skyrim modding community.
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The command and conquer moding comunity was....
Extreamly tight knight, every one knew every one it was nice.
edited 26th May '16 5:16:29 PM by Imca
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Tight knit. (I'm sorry. For English.)
I do have to wonder about other strategy games and the like. For example, I'd definitely like to know how many Armello (a digital board game) players are women.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
The law in the night
I don't know either, it's been a while since I left Moddb forums and everyone was really nice there too.
Out of all FPS communities I've been Planetside 2 was the nicest one, which is also helped by the unusually high average age of PS 2 players. I was kinda amused having a female platoon leader being active in the voice chat with no shit talking happening.
Warframe has also seems to have a decent female player base, but you wouldn't be able to tell from the game alone.
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Amused
If you check the official in Real Life pictures of Warframe player thread you will likely find that half if not more of the players are young gals (teenager to young adult).
The Mod with the Migraine
Mostly what bugs me about it is that yes, clearly, women are gamers and have been for years, yet this is still treated like some kind of shocking news event. I bet more women would be in the FPS community if the average player didn't act like an asshat to them.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
I wonder if the fact that the Neptunia franchise being put on PC has affected those numbers for RP Gs or the other way around. Despite its reputation as a Fanservice franchise, the demographics are supposed to be more than 50% female and its PC releases have been a massive success despite some rocky launches.
If only Tecmo Koei would put the Atelier Series on PC, they are floundering on Vita.
