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[SerenityNigh]

Yup...and oh so timely.

Textbook

 

[LinekersLegs]

Like what?

I think from a young age lot of kids become aware that some subjects are seen as being as either for boys/girls and there is still peer/parental/sociological pressure to conform. When you are the only girl/boy in a class it can be quite intimidating and any problems make it a bit easier to just quit rather than persevere. There is also often a lack of role models or mentors both within early schooling and in the first stages of your career. There is also practical issues such as balancing child rearing with unforgiving project schedules.

 

[Huyton Layne]

What the hell did that MLK guy do anyways besides cause civil unrest and name a bunch of terrible streets after himself.

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

No, equality means giving everyone the same chance regardless of their disadvantage

So equal opportunity, then.

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

I grew up poor as did the bloke a year younger than me from down the road who owns a successful business and is held in high esteem in his field. We had the same opportunities in life but he did better, should I feel resentment towards him?

No, because you had the same opportunities.

Also grew up poor isn't poor. Its growing up poor.

 

[chicoazul]

Why would there be any resistance to a fair society with equal opportunity for all?

All efforts put into levelling the playing field will reap rewards for the generations ahead. It would at least encourage tolerance, something which seems in short supply amongst the middle aged and older generations in the U.K.

The younger generation turning to adults of late are a credit to celebrating people's differences be that race, gender, religion, disability. And what a socio economic mess we've left for them to navigate. Still, they give me hope for the future. The Alf Garnett fans' days are numbered.

 

[Clint Planet]

What the hell did that MLK guy do anyways besides cause civil unrest and name a bunch of terrible streets after himself.

Bloody social justice warrior, he was. Note he wasn't a woman, mind. They're not clever enough or too ditsy or summat.

 

[Prevenger17]

Like what?

I think you're being deliberately obtuse here Nova. If you can't accept that the perception and treatment of women still has a long way to go, then I fear that their constant rejection of you has damaged you far more than we originally thought

 

[Clint Planet]

True, but there are no guarantees in life. If government is sufficiently poor, it will fail and fall and its promises will come to nothing. Eventually we arrive at an existential point of order, but this is usually dismissed as apocalyptic fantasy. That dismissal is true until it is not. Witness Venezuela as an example. If you can find a comparable capitalist example, I'm eager to hear what you have to say.

Would the banking crisis of 2007-8 count?

 

[SNova]

I think from a young age lot of kids become aware that some subjects are seen as being as either for boys/girls and there is still peer/parental/sociological pressure to conform. When you are the only girl/boy in a class it can be quite intimidating and any problems make it a bit easier to just quit rather than persevere. There is also often a lack of role models or mentors both within early schooling and in the first stages of your career. There is also practical issues such as balancing child rearing with unforgiving project schedules.

For the most part boys and girls like different things. The outliers may feel like they need to conform, but I don't see much that can be done about that.

As for the practical issues, yes this will disadvantage women, but it's their personal choice to have a child.

I think you're being deliberately obtuse here Nova. If you can't accept that the perception and treatment of women still has a long way to go, then I fear that their constant rejection of you has damaged you far more than we originally thought

Norway is rated as the most equal society. And despite every effort and lots of money spent on encouraging male nurses and female engineers, the percentage still hasn't changed.

I know no one will watch it, but here's the documentary showcasing this:

 

[TheFinnFan]

6 days

 

[Clint Planet]

For the most part boys and girls like different things. The outliers may feel like they need to conform, but I don't see much that can be done about that.

Thank you for your expert opinion on this complex, age-old problem. You could have excused society's inherent sexism with a glib comment about "men and women just being different so deal with it" but you........erm.......hang on....

As for the practical issues, yes this will disadvantage women, but it's their personal choice to have a child.

Well, that's a simplistic view, to say the least. Setting aside the societal pressures on young women to have children, I'd say it was very often a joint decision between the woman and her partner.

 

[SNova]

Thank you for your expert opinion on this complex, age-old problem. You could have excused society's inherent sexism with a glib comment about "men and women just being different so deal with it" but you........erm.......hang on....



Well, that's a simplistic view, to say the least. Setting aside the societal pressures on young women to have children, I'd say it was very often a joint decision between the woman and her partner.

But they are different, so deal with it. Yes there are outliers. Let's say we live in your uptopian vision of how you want the world to be. Would you expect everything to be 50/50 men and women?

Social pressure on young women to have children? If only. Have you seen our birth rates? It seems to be the opposite, forget about kids and family, only money and career matter.

I'm much more impressed by someone's family than I am about someone's career.

Men don't rear children.

 

[Clint Planet]

But they are different, so deal with it. Yes there are outliers. Let's say we live in your uptopian vision of how you want the world to be. Would you expect everything to be 50/50 men and women?

Social pressure on young women to have children? If only. Have you seen our birth rates? It seems to be the opposite, forget about kids and family, only money and career matter.

I'm much more impressed by someone's family than I am about someone's career.

Men don't rear children.

I don't know where to even start with this post.

 

[SNova]

I don't know where to even start with this post.

Do you believe men and women to be the same and that only environmental factors account for the differences?

And are you not more impressed with ones family than you are with their job?

If a 60 year old was telling me their life story and they mentioned they sacrificed a family for their 'cool' career I would think that sounds like a cool career, but it's sad they didn't have a family.