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[The] main problem here is that software development is not an individual sport. Assessing technical traits means that we are looking at candidates as individuals. At the same time, we will put them in a team context and the project's success will depend on their teamwork. A person's resume or LinkedIn profile says close to nothing about their team skills.
What's more, we know quite a lot about what makes teams effective. Anita Woolley's research on collective intelligence [DOI: 10.1126/science.1193147] [DX] provides extremely valuable insight on the topic. First of all, how do we define collective intelligence? It's basically the skill of a group to solve complex problems. Well, it sounds like the definition of everyday work for software development teams if you ask me.
Why is collective intelligence so important? Exploiting collective intelligence, as opposed to going with the opinion of the smartest person in a room, is a winning strategy. To put in Anita Woolley's words: "Collective intelligence was much more predictive in terms of succeeding in complex tasks than average individual intelligence or maximal individual intelligence."
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday September 24 2017, @07:58PM (5 children)
"the whole gender caste system"
I don't know what you mean by that, but it puts me in mind of what happens when you walk into a wall while aroused. Shudder.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by kurenai.tsubasa on Sunday September 24 2017, @08:35PM (4 children)
If you're assigned the male gender at birth, regardless of your body parts, you're expected to do certain things, such as making oneself available for the military defense of one's country, making oneself economically profitable, and directly contributing with your personal wallet to the marriage/child support/alimony system that basically amounts of cisfemale-only basic income, as opposed to universal basic income.
If you're assigned the female gender at birth, regardless of your body parts, you're expected to do certain things, such as providing babysitting services and giving birth to at least two children (and I cannot emphasize enough that this is a requirement that old women themselves have for young women). Financial compensation is provided by society for each child one delivers to that point that it is possible to receive enough welfare that obtaining employment is a proposition that makes no financial sense (one will be worse off with than job than without, because of how our brain-dead welfare system works).
(Beware the mythical welfare queen. I'm not talking about those. I do not envy women who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, have decided to make themselves into full-time baby machines. I prefer the more traditional route of marrying a man [already have one picked out if only magic would start existing] before having children.)
That's the idea that I'm attempting to capture. I feel that feminism has already been down this road, and they called it the “gender dichotomy,” but then feminism went senile and was taken over gender essentialists who worship the gender dichotomy as The Way The Sky Fairy Meant Things To Be.
A caste system is by its nature artificial. Feminism forgot that there is a component of gender that is socially constructed. The social construction is the caste system. Unfortunately, feminism decided that it was more interested in enforcing the caste system rather than trying to work towards equality without a caste system where people may be individuals who are accountable for and only accountable for their own actions.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @11:00PM (1 child)
Stop with this bullshit. Nobody is "assigned to the male gender." They are observed to be male or female because of their body parts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 24 2017, @11:12PM
They are perceived to be male or female, sometimes mistakenly, on the basis of their body parts. When those parts don't meet a doctor's expectations, surgery is sometimes done:
(Wikipedia [wikipedia.org])
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Monday September 25 2017, @12:47PM
Maybe that's what makes them feel fulfilled. Who are you to say they're not? If most women want to have kids, it's probably because it's a biological imperative, the same way it is for men.
So, you're not that way. You don't have oxytocin coursing through your veins. That's fine. Having children is not a biological imperative for you. But using that as a lens to cast the biological reality for most humans as a "caste system" is gratuitous.
If you're living in a 1950's social reality that makes you feel oppressed, then change your venue to a place where nobody cares. You know the usual places: New York, San Francisco, Portland, OR, Seattle, etc. Avoid the Midwest and the South. Find others like you and form community with them. If the larger culture makes you feel oppressed, stop watching TV and reading magazines and generally participating in it. With the online universe you can hide in the long tail and switch off everything else.
I don't like spectator sports, so I don't watch them. I hate commercial culture so I cut the cord on cable years ago. I stopped giving all those things and all those people my life energy by hating them. Now life is calmer and better.
You can do the same. You put so much energy into hating a reality that you're not gonna change, ever. No matter what you do, no matter how many pejorative terms you lace your speech with, the vast, vast majority of men and women are going to continue to refer to themselves as men and women and have babies with each other. So instead of tearing yourself to pieces over it, find a way to live happily by surrounding yourself with neighbors, friends, and loved ones who accept you for who you are. You've got a lot more to offer the world than a seething cup of resentment.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 25 2017, @12:50PM
Feminism was very enthused to achieve equality, without losing the existing benefits. As soon as the existing benefits started to become threatened, feminism seemed to lose interest in equality.
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