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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) by Pseudonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @08:19PM
Yeah, except for the part where I am a bisexual crossdresser with a boyfriend who's still dealing with gender dysphoria. (I am white, though!)
I suspect you have an account on SN but would rather not deal with the fallout of hordes of "white male heterosexuals" storming on this website to reply to every reply you make. I understand that.
But please take your cowardly uninformed two-faced hypocritical opinions and post them somewhere other than SoylentNews, or atleast have the balls to do it with your main identity and face the scrutiny of your opinion. I thought this website was PEOPLE? THAT IS: ALL PEOPLE. Even people who you determine must be male and heterosexual and turn out to not be.
If I was out of the closet to my immediate close friends and family? I would've used my actual internet pseudonym to tell you this:
tl;dr: Fuck off, coward. You're out of your element.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @09:02PM
> I suspect you have an account on SN
I remember you.
Apparently you have multiple accounts on SN.
Not really the best position to be throwing stones from.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @10:48PM
Original AC back again:
Pardon me, but your original post seemed to be enraged that "it's okay if heterosexual white men are being stereotyped and oppressed because they're the majority and they're the opressors!" I think, given the content of your missive, that my assumption was reasonable, though apparently incorrect.
Your suspicion is incorrect. I always post AC. I would rather that people judge the content of my post, rather than engage in petty grudge matches.
Ouch! That hurt!
Now I have a message for you: if you look for something to be offended by, you will certainly find something every time. Without fail. Stop looking for ways to be offended. You will probably be much happier as a result.