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To: ChewedGum

Actually, men breaking into an all female school seems the more perplexing.

I'm a woman in a male-dominated field (I'm a software engineer) so I understand what drives women to compete in places they "don't belong".

But when men break out of their assigned roles (to become, for example, cheerleaders, flight attendants, nurses, housekeepers, or elementary school teachers) other, "manlier" men, often question their sexuality or worse.

Sure... you can "get the chicks" if you're in those fields... but it just targets you for abuse. I don't get it.


48 posted on 12/08/2004 2:24:49 PM PST by bigLusr (Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur)
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To: bigLusr
But when men break out of their assigned roles (to become, for example, cheerleaders, flight attendants, nurses, housekeepers, or elementary school teachers) other, "manlier" men, often question their sexuality or worse.

Sure... you can "get the chicks" if you're in those fields... but it just targets you for abuse. I don't get it.

Not to mention that the pay and prestige is usually lower for "traditional" female jobs.

56 posted on 12/08/2004 2:28:47 PM PST by saquin
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To: bigLusr
but it just targets you for abuse

Maybe they like abuse.

59 posted on 12/08/2004 2:30:10 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: bigLusr
Actually, men breaking into an all female school seems the more perplexing

There are no men demanding admittance.

Read the article:

A decision by Wells College (search), which has been all-women since 1868, to begin admitting male students in order to boost enrollment has riled female students.
This is a decision by the college administration. They aren't getting enough students as an all-woman college. Not enough women want to go to an all-girl college to make continuing as an all-girl college financially viable, most likely
94 posted on 12/08/2004 6:13:16 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice)
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