[Ads-l] Will differential treatment _never_ end?

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Sun Oct 1 02:03:45 UTC 2017


What's the diff between
*half men* (and the other half women)
and
*half women* (and the other half men)
?

Mark

On Sep 27, 2017 12:02 PM, "W Brewer" <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

I was in graduate school so long, that there was a gradual *demographic
shift from about half men (a lot of veterans) to half women*. (I'm not
talkin' transgenders here.) By the time I finished, I was the only guy in
the program amongst a gaggle of ladies.

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