Mary Wood wrote:
>
> >If you have ideas for things women CAN do, though.. I'd love to
> >know them. Other than 'be present and visible and competent', I'm
> >fresh out....
>
> Hmmm, take those too-many women who are perpetuating the
> negative female stereotype and beat them to a pulp?
>
> ... or would that not be drastic enough?
Too dramatic. :)
Be subtly bitchy and exclusionary - the way they are to us. Tempt
them into realising that it's NOT OK ANYMORE.
Why don't we apply peer pressure to them, and the males who are
also into 'equalism' apply peer pressure to the males who perpetuate
the stereotypes, and between us we get somewhere?
Note: I've cured stereotypical behaviour (The 'I can't possibly fix
that!' problem) by calmly and quietly leading them into figuring out
what's wrong with the thing that's broken, and leading them to
figuring out a potential repair.
Once they've repaired one thing, it gets easier to lead them to
repairing the next one. Once they've repaired four or five things,
they're into how /good/ it /feels/ to be competent!
I hook them! Worse than drugs!
Jenn V.
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"We're repairing the coolant loop of a nuclear fusion reactor.
This is women's work!"
Helix, Freefall. http://www.purrsia.com/freefall/
Jenn Vesperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simegen.com/~jenn
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