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Scott Adams of Dilbert fame has posted a blog entry on gender discrimination. His goal is to gather as many links as possible on all sides of the issue; he intends to try to summarize what's out there in a subsequent post. His blog entry includes a few interesting, possibly insightful comments, for example:
"Some men are bullies and assholes. And most men are assholes at least some of the time. When men are bullies and assholes to each other, we interpret it as exactly that. But if I observe those same bullies and assholes mistreating a woman, I interpret it as sexism. I assume others see it the same way.
"The other day a good friend who works as a massage therapist was describing a time in her past she was a victim of gender discrimination. The story sounded convincing to me. Then I asked if she knew I would not have considered her as my massage therapist if she were a man. Cricket noises."
"My larger point today is that any discussion of gender in the workplace is like two blind people standing on an elephant and arguing whether the elephant is a sandwich or a bar of soap. Both are 100% wrong. That includes me."
Personally, I find Adams' writing to be frequently interesting — he at least tries to find his way around traditional blindspots. Sometimes he even succeeds. Since gender discrimination is so often a topic in technical fields, perhaps Soylentils will find this of interest...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @03:10AM
Shifting your cognitive perspective to just attempt to understand things like Schrodinger's Rapist can be a tremendous challenge from the male perspective.
They used that 1-in-6 statistic again. Very nice.
It makes me physically ill to realize that essay is the only prudent female response to, well, the reality of rape statistics.
Do you question the rape statistics themselves? Do you question how they are collected, what questions they use on surveys, what the sample size is, how they define their terms, or if the sampling represents the population at large?
How would it feel to be constantly demeaned for a normal thing your body does?
You don't get to control what other people find disgusting. I'm disgusted by feces, and everyone has bowel movements. Still, it's disgusting. What about it? Thinking it is disgusting isn't bad.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @03:23AM
Engage in just a tiny bit of metacognition and understand why you think feces is disgusting: you have a natural instinct that discourages you from eating biological waste. Feces ceases to be disgusting after you acknowledge your instinctual prejudice and accept it for what it is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @03:25AM
No, not all disgust can be 'cured' so easily, and nor is it always rational. And again, finding a 'normal' bodily function disgusting is not wrong; it's a personal matter.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @03:31AM
You're totally right. Some idiots have to eat shit before they learn not to eat shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @03:35AM
I'm not sure where that was said, but whatever.