SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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) by mojo chan on Monday March 16 2015, @01:07PM
[Citation needed] that women are fare less likely than men to be raped.
And yes, men should get some men's liberation too. Men should not accept violence just because they are seen as weak for complaining about it.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 1) by wisnoskij on Monday March 16 2015, @01:39PM
I said men are far more likely to get violently assaulted in some way, what like 80-90%? Rape in particular seems closer to 50/50 in the stats excluding prison. One could argue that men do not have the freedom to talk about being victimized in that way or have anyone to report it to who would listen, but really we cannot say much without actual statistics.
Isn't that the exact opposite thing we should draw from this? Men are, apparently, privileged by ignoring their fragile and precarious bodily safety.