Are women and men not to be allowed to make different decisions as to how they choose to spend their time and live their lives?
I have been beaten in chess by exactly 5 people. EVER.
One was a female. Dang was she good! (Another was a male officially rated as a Grand Master. Wow was it fun when I managed to beat him!)
The female is also gorgeous.
She could play competitively, as could I. We both have other things on our plates though. More lucrative things. No discrimination here.
IOW, the article makes very good sense.
I see this in the STEM field.
A couple years ago, I coached a high school robotics team. We had several girls and with one exception, they all filtered over to the marketing and administrative areas of the team. While they loved the team and frankly, the girls were the ones more responsible for some awards the team got, not the on field performance, they didn’t really care about the programming, electronics and mechanical aspects.
My son majors in aerospace engineering. Virtually every college brochure he got featured young students on the front cover. He attends a very small engineering university where he knows nearly all the students. He told me that they either use stock photo’s or bring in models for any student life promos.
For one, he doesn’t recognize and of the girls and secondly, there are less than a dozen females students on campus.
They're not even allowed to have separate bathrooms.
My passion for football means I should definitely be allowed to play in the NFL. The fact that I’m an out of shape, over 50 female should have absolutely NO bearing on my ability to be recruited, drafted, and signed to a huge long term contract. After all, I love football. Oh, and nobody on the any of the other teams we play better hit me, tackle me, or go after me, because that would be racist.
All men are created equal...................but it goes downhill after that....................
I saw a commercial this weekend that showed a symphony orchestra with a black conductor. I am sure black orchestra conductors exist, but they have to be extremely rare. I’ve watched many orchestra performances through the years and I do not even remember seeing a black orchestra member, let alone a conductor (unless Wynton Marsalis was a guest trumpet player). So many commercials now feature the intelligent black people and the dumb white people (like the investment commercial where the black people are calmly reviewing their portfolios while the white people across the street do a lot crazy stupid, hysterical things to keep from reviewing theirs), I guess I should not be surprised. I wonder if orchestras will start to suffer in quality and become affirmative action havens for mediocre musicians?
Men are highly underrepresented as knitters, babysitters, flight attendants, secretaries and nurses. Among other things.
Do we need national government programs and ngo social groups along with celebrity awareness commercials to right these wrongs too?
I was in a chess club in junior high. We would have fallen on our knees and worshipped any girl that wanted to join.
My blonde, cheerleader sister was the first woman in her BSEE class, way back in the late sixties. It was considered a big deal back then. Maybe it still is?
Affirmative action made sense years ago because of the great injustice done to black citizens. It should have been a temporary 50 year plan...
Choice is GOOD only if you want to kill an unborn child; of which; about 3,300 will die today.
Three Thousand three hundred Future American citizens.
and we worry about Muslim terrorists?
The country has gone MAD!
I’ve often stated that basically liberals want to put a gun to everyone’s head to push them into things they have no interest in. That is the only way there might be “parity” amongst groupings. Force. Which is what communism is.
I’m a woman, was an engineer. Fewer women than men in school and the field. Some women hate it when I answer that I don’t feel discriminated against as female (90% of the time, with some possible exceptions). I happen to love machinery, but I have no delusions that most women are like me.
Now I’ve been a housewife since bearing my child. The discrimination trying to be a professional again comes from the big gap on my resume. If I was a man who’d raised a child I’d also have trouble getting back in. My risk.
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