DraQ said:
Melissan said:
It sounds simple to you because you're male.
Why do you insist that males are better (in this case smarter) again?
You're indeed not a terribly brainy person, but you're doing your other females great disservice by projecting it on your entire gender.
It is you who is not a brainy person, DraQ, because what I said was very simple and to avoid being misunderstood again I even explained with arguments which is what was asked of me before. Did it make any difference? I didn't think it would but hey my issues with how I'm being treated are clearly imaginary, aren't they?
What I meant, Draq, is that its simple to males because males aren't being discriminated and the issues of women seem simple and overstated to them? What issues? There are no issues. Everyone's equal and all that a woman's gotta do is just be herself and speak her mind. Right.
Edit: Here is what a woman whose blog I follow wrote:
"One day, I was sitting in a faculty meeting with the suspicion that women in our department were not being taken seriously. As a statistician, I decided to collect a little data. I drew a cross-tabulation. The rows were gender of the speaker and the column was whether the next speaker responded – questioned, followed up, elaborated – or ignored the comment as if the speaker hadn’t even said anything. Of the speakers, 80% were male (the department was about 50% female) and of those 20%, most of the comments were made by me. Near the end of the meeting,
I made a comment and again, a male member of the faculty made a remark that was if I hadn’t spoken. I pounded on the table and said,
“I said something and God damn it, you are all going to listen to me!”
Then, I mentioned the data I had been collecting during the meeting (believe me, the chi-square was highly significant). The two department chairs present were somewhat embarrassed but no one argued with my data. We discussed whatever the topic was – I think it was reducing our mathematics requirement for general education.
Personally, I don’t have a problem pounding on the table and swearing if that’s what it takes. Three points:
The men in the room didn’t need to be that way.
Not all women are like me.
Not all women should HAVE to be like me. I have a pretty high self-esteem but not so high that I think everyone must be like me because I am so perfect.
Women who support Arrington’s view on Tech Crunch that it isn’t men’s fault that there aren’t more women in tech because “After all, look at me, I’m not complaining and I’m doing great” are perhaps missing the point that
they are doing well because they have certain characteristics that men don’t need to have."
This is how bad it is out there.