Rick Scott wrote:
> Unfortunately, this too often seems like a revolutionary concept.
> Sure, things are getting better, but next time you're in the
> supermarket checkout line, take a look at the magazine covers.
> How many of the people on the cover are women? (IME >90%)
> How many of them are there because of their intelligence, wit,
> hack ability or business sense? (IME <30%) How many are there
> as objects or str8 male eye candy? (IME >70%) (Hint: look for
> the models with the vapid "nobody's home" gaze.)
And along the same lines, I've just finished a book called
'Pythagoras Trousers' which talks about gender-bias (mostly historical,
but not completely) in science, most specifically physics.
Apparently there've been something of the order of *ten* females who
have earned Nobel prizes in the sciences. Approx 7 of them for biological
sciences - only three for physics/maths.
(Yes, I'm too lazy to go look it up. And yes, this is 'as of the time
she wrote this', which was in the 90s.)
This is not a lack of desire - it's a lack of opportunity. The only
reason Marie Curie was able to be a physicist was that both her father
and her husband encouraged her & gave her the resources to study &
research.
When Pierre died, Marie was pretty much no longer welcome at the
university where they both worked. For the sin of being female.
(Politicking kept her a place there, but had she been male - well,
she would have had the place of honour that Pierre had had...)
>> Women and men have much, MUCH more in common than we have different.
>
>
> Amen, sister! =)
<grin>
>> After all, you wanted a beginner's guide. Begin with friendship. :) No
>> running when you can't even crawl yet. :)
>
>
> Made this decision consciously a few years ago. I wish I would have
> made it earlier.
People NOT making this decision seems to be the main cause of gender
friction, I think.
After all, if the only relationship you want with a guy/girl is a
sexual one, that's cutting half the human race out of your
possible-friendships pool. I've never understood that.
> Personally, (and as unromantic as it may sound) it just seems to
> make more sense to me to make friends and gradually ease into as much
> intimacy as you both are comfortable with, as opposed to picking
> some random stranger off the street, dubbing yourselves "an item",
> and going from insubstantial banter to sharing your deepest darkest
> secrets in the blink of an eye.
Heh...
Jenn V.
--
"Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture
you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.
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