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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) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday March 18 2015, @01:40PM
About 1 in 6 custodial parents were fathers (17.8 percent). (http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-240.pdf) 20 years ago. Since then a whole generation has comes that is referred to as 3rd wave of feminism and that actively demands that all rape accusations must be treated as true unless proven false. In India, from where I belong, National Commission of Women, the biggest organization of women was forced to admin that 53% of all reported cases of rape were in fact about consensual sex that didn't led to marriage. It is easy to get this data there because the definition of rape covers sex under promise of marriage. You won't get this data in USA because it is culturally acceptable for men to break-up.
(Score: 2) by cubancigar11 on Wednesday March 18 2015, @01:43PM
About 1 in 6 custodial parents were fathers (17.8 percent). (http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-240.pdf)
DiCanio is wrong and 20 years old. Since then a whole generation has comes that is referred to as 3rd wave of feminism and that actively demands that all rape accusations must be treated as true unless proven false. In India, from where I belong, National Commission of Women, the biggest organization of women was forced to admin that 53% of all reported cases of rape were in fact about consensual sex that didn't led to marriage. It is easy to get this data there because the definition of rape covers sex under promise of marriage. You won't get this data in USA because it is culturally acceptable for men to break-up.