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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @08:00AM
Yep. That's how it goes.
Women. Can't live with 'em, can't keep 'em in a cage in the basement. Sigh.
No. wait. That should be.
Women. Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em.
Wait. No. That's not right.
Women. Can't live with 'em, can't make a decent souffle either.
No. This is difficult. Okay. I got it now.
Women. Can't live with 'em, unless you're willing to be a reasonable human being who will listen, compromise and make decisions that benefit both people.
Aww...that's too hard. Fuck it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @03:29PM
I thought the canonical version of this was:
Women! Can't live with them; pass the beer nuts! [google.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @10:54PM
No, that's still not right.
Women. Can't live with 'em, can't establish an acceptable halfway point.
Just about everything I've seen is always gifted to the woman. Seats? Jobs? Money for being in a minority that's greater than 50% of the population?
There's an old propaganda line that a woman needs to work twice as hard to be thought half as good as a man. A few months ago, at my work, there was a study that showed that women think they're better at everything. Funny, I don't think I've heard a woman admit that a man might be better at something than she is.