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That's a whole lot of hypothetical generalizing about women and men, based on absolutely no evidence. Try swapping "men" for "women" (and vice versa) in your co

• sbmassey 10y ago
  It doesn't seem particularly obnoxious either way, as far as I can tell. Do people really have to be scolded for hypothesizing about correlations between sex and other characteristics?
• oneloop 10y ago
  What kind of argument is this? You seem to believe that if the reverse hypothesis "sounds obnoxious" then the direct hypothesis must surely be false. The fact is that if what the parent is saying happens to be true, then the reverse is bond to sound obnoxious.
• thenomad 10y ago
  Let's see: "Reading his comments it made me wonder if men might be disposed to scar more easily (or women are more defiant) from this kind of treatment, creating a negative feedback loop in subsequent jobs and roles which negatively affects their careers. This is not intended to be a criticism of men, but rather it's question which may have important implications. Women may externalize this kind of sandbagging and stonewalling while men may tend to internalize it. If so it may be a much bigger deal than it may appear to a woman because we're damaging our talent pool." Could have maybe used a couple more "tend to" statements, but doesn't seem horribly unreasonable to me. (And looks, in many ways, equally valid as a hypothesis. Not in all elements, but there is a culture of the "strong man" who simply internalises stress and conflict in a lot of places.)