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Scott Adams Muses About Gender Discrimination — and Wants Your Links

posted by janrinok on Monday March 16 2015, @02:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the perspective dept.

bradley13 writes:

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...

 
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  • (Score: 2) by tibman on Monday March 16 2015, @03:56AM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 16 2015, @03:56AM (#158220)

    Since blogs were the pre-cursor to "social sites", is everyone using a social site "very egotistical"? When twitter came out everyone was complaining that 140 characters wasn't enough talk about anything. Turns out that most people prefer a sentence and a link over paragraphs and in-line images.

    I could be so wrong, i don't keep track of this stuff anymore. Maybe when everyone left blogs for MySpace/Facebook/whatever a core group of assholes remained behind.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @11:26AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @11:26AM (#158301)

    When twitter came out everyone was complaining that 140 characters wasn't enough talk about anything.

    It is.

    Turns out that most people prefer a sentence and a link over paragraphs and in-line images.

    How does that contradict the first statement?

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Monday March 16 2015, @02:18PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 16 2015, @02:18PM (#158363)

      A sentence can easily fit inside 140 characters and a paragraph cannot. The second blockquote was just a longer way to say your "It is."

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