Michael K Gray wrote:Reverse it and it is equally valid:DeepInsideYourMind wrote:Well this FtB / Skepchick style thing is alive and well in the IT industry too it seems ... http://ashedryden.com/blog/we-deserve-better-than-this
Sexism and misandrony¹ isn't something that happens to "other people". I don't know one man whose life hasn't been affected by it; I don't know a single man who hasn't changed their behavior or the situations they put themselves in because of it. I don't know anyonethatwho hasn't been friends, partners, or family members with a manthatwho hasn't worried for him or seen the way his life gets turned upside down by the way society treats him. These aren't "men's issues", they are societal issues.
That rings 100% true for me.
Especially with the "Glass Floor" effect.
The criminally gross imbalance in family law, and sexual offence laws and the huge dimorphism in rules of forensis that are blithely applied with brutish inequality to either sex. A woman's word holds at least twice the value of a man's in these areas.
Judge Judy indeed.
The disproportionate risk of imprisonment and subsequent ferocious rape suffered by most males inmates.
Most of the horridly dangerous, dirty, back-breaking work is still performed by males.
The near universal risk of death and injury during combat, both state-sanctioned and private, especially with involuntary male-only draft in most countries.
The disparity between median survival age.
And not being able to wear women's pretty clothes. (Oops! Gave away too much there Dan Hughes!²)
Damn that pervasive and powerful Patriarchy for perpetuating these obvious male "advantages"!
Feminists who ignore these very real and very brutal male sufferings can go get stuffed, as far as I am concerned.
Not worth the time of day.
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¹ That is how I think it should be spelled.
² First to get the reference is probably a fan of obscure Aussie comedy films.
No, it is not happening in "IT". In fact, very, very few examples on her list were even work related, and only one could be seen as any form of sexist. "IT" is not a monolithic thing. She's a web developer who has about as much to do with my part of IT as I do with the formal study of platypui.