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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @05:39AM
I love Dilbert, but I don't see how Adams has anything more to contribute on the gender issue than any other random person who's been in the workplace for 15+ years.
There is no reason as to why any random person cannot have insight on the subject, this isn't a subject which requires significant domain-specific knowledge. Nice poisoning the well there.
Re/code [recode.net] is run by a feminist (well, two people, one of whom is a feminist) who doesn't shy away from covering gender topics. They're giving gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Ellen Pao vs. Kleiner Perkins discrimination lawsuit, for example, although they try to cover it in an unbiased way, noting when Pao had some tough days on the cross examination stand. Re/code also covers a lot of the GamerGate stories. Yeah, it's slanted towards the feminist side but that's how you get to hear about the issues ... it's like in a courtroom trial, the prosecution always goes first so the jury can learn why they're there in the first place.
Blatent slashvertisement (errr... soyvertisement?), and irrelevant to the current topic.
This comment shouldn't be +4, it doesn't contribute anything worthwhile to the discussion.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @02:05PM
Re/code [recode.net] is run by a feminist
It also is bigoted... It assumes no one else other than those who are discriminated against can say anything. It basically subsumes that unless you have 100% understanding you can not help at all. It is a tactic used by those who want to shut down the other side and not listen to them and only have their message heard. They do not want to hear the other side. It assumes that the best way to fight bigotry is to have even more bigotry. Which it does not. It just creates even more bigotry from the original group.
Discrimination/bigotry/racism is a 2 way street.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday March 16 2015, @02:14PM
So why shouldn't a link to a site specialising in the subject under discussion be allowed?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 17 2015, @03:25AM
It doesn't specialize on the subject, and I didn't say it's not allowed.