Do Facts Matter?

I posted before, but it seems to have been lost in the ether.... Long story short, you asked:

Is this an issue where people are open to empirical persuasion?

My answer: What makes you think there really are issues like that? Do people really respond to logic when it comes to tax policy? Trade policy? Education policy? Environmental laws? Abortion? Gay marriage?

Some people are persuadable. Most aren't. Whatever supports their inherent biases will be believed unless and until there is overwhelming logical and anecdotal evidence followed by public acceptance by most the most charismatic fellow opponents of the theory.

Like when Clinton embraced welfare reform and got some lefties to go along with him after decades of reflexive opposition.

Yes. People are not stupid. Most women aknowledge that there are objective indexes by which they are not discriminated, but the idea is that to publish you need lab space, assistants, sponsors, budgets, time to work (while having to care for a man and children), and so on. And that in the access to the building blocks of work performance, they are in disadvantage. Moreover, women say sexist society makes it more difficult for them and they need to spend more time in simple routine tasks, such as shopping, make up, hairdressing. It is not that they are inferior, but the world is built for men to succeed. How I do know? I am married to a poylische woman who complains day and night, and forces me to pay her special primetime consideration (such remembering her birthday) just for the fact of her being a woman. In other words, women demand extra attention and special advantages, because they are women, except when they are xantippean harpies.

Some people are and some people aren't. Those that are, are probably already successful. Those that aren't, will continue to look for others to blame.

Not that anyone would actually do this, of course, and completely hypothetically but if you could get what you want by mau-mauing rather than actually doing or creating anything (which you may or may not have the ability to do, who knows?), isn't it prudent to mau-mau?

They have conditioned you to give in when they mau-mau. It doesnt work the other way, they are indifferent to your mau mauing.