"Caitlyn Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mainly ignorance. I've always thought that was the main cause of most
> discrimination and prejudice.
IIRC, this discussion began when some (male) poster sent some old,
reworked rhetoric about how males made intrinsically better IT workers
than women, or something like that. Incidentally, the military was
associated with it... I'm not sure how. So, add a little patriotic
rhetoric, and alienate everyone on the list who does not live in the
U.S. I think that it was a special case of ignorance. I'm not sure
that it would apply to each and every person here that didn't like
their boss, or didn't feel like they got enough credit, or money, or
recognition. Would you like to work for a company that is supposedly
enlightened, but they were interested in you because you were
attractive, or you had the right connections, or something that did
not relate to the merit of your work? You would probably find another
job, if possible. How discrimination manifests itself is different
from one person to the next. So how that sort of generlized argument
that me and people like me are discriminated against doesn't really
hold up... what if I got po'd at my boss and shot and killed him?
Would that help society in general? Probably not. So all I'm really
getting at is that each person is a special instance, and each of them
certainly can tell some story about how they were put upon by their
boss, but I don't think that sort of anecdotal evidence applies to all
workers of a group, or that it would help in making work and
compensation more equitable for the greatest number of people of any
field. How you or I would cope with our individual situations
probably isn't relevant in the context of how everyone copes with
their work environments. Isn't that what we were talking about?
Bob
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