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Esrac posted...

I think it depends on the personal experiences and dispositions of the individual men and women in the booths. The perspectives of the two white men could have significantly more variance than the perspectives of the man and woman.

Instead, let's put PZ Meyers in one booth with Alex Jones.

Then put Ivanka and Eric Trump in the other booth.

I'd wager the perspectives of Ivanka and Eric are a lot closer than PZ and Alex.

Yes, in that example, obviously there would be a greater difference in the two men. That said, your example is a little disingenuous, because the man and woman are brother and sister, but I get your point. Substitute Eric Trump for... say Rudy Giulani, or whatever.

The point of that exercise, which I admit is pretty rough, was to suggest that until you've engaged with people who come from very different places than you, whether it's gender or race, you don't really get how much different their life experiences are from you than someone from the same race/gender/etc. It took me a long time and a lot of frank conversations for a white boy who grew up in NH to understand how different those experiences could be, and for some folk to suggest "Nah, it's probably similar" given what I know of some of these people is, well...

Furthermore, if you look at the critic base of movies, they're not really broken down by region and socioeconomic position. They're largely liberal and focused around urban areas. So if you were to suggest, hey, rural conservatives are different from urban liberals, yeah, that's true, but let's be honest: how many conservative rural movie critics do you know?
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