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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: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Monday March 16 2015, @11:34AM
For example, where do you draw the limit of redress? Do we go back and make right the wrongs of Mongol invaders?
Even better example is the middle east. That is so dense with historical mistakes, that the movie quote of "nuke it from orbit just to be sure" applies quite well. I honestly think there is no other endgame for them other than that, if its declared to be time to right all the wrongs. However, none of the players likely want to be nuked from orbit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @06:41PM
> I honestly think there is no other endgame for them other than that,
Why is black-and-white thinking so seductive to geeks?
It seems especially so when the geeks have only the most superficial knowledge of the topics they opine on.