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Of course no one is going to claim that and expect to be taken seriously. But as a fellow girl, in my years socializing in groups I have certainly experienced t
by ambivalents 9y ago
Of course no one is going to claim that and expect to be taken seriously. But as a fellow girl, in my years socializing in groups I have certainly experienced this sentiment. There seems to a tacit agreement that girls that are good at something traditionally male-dominated, like programming or math, are an exception to the rule. In other words, there is a rebuttable presumption of mediocrity in these areas. If you excel at them, good on you, you must be a true whiz to do so in spite of your gender.
- kaybe 9y agoApparently physics checks your gender if you approach it and if it finds you female suddenly makes itself at least twice as hard. At least this is the impression that a large part of the population seems to have, according to what they tell female students of physics. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
- Grustaf 9y ago"good at something traditionally male-dominated" Yeah but that's different, I was replying to someone saying that the general opinion was that girls are not good at anything at all. That is simply not true, almost nobody believes that.
- posterboy 9y ago... over the hole world, on average, and in the past?
- ambivalents 9y agoI interpreted Mz's comment as a somewhat facetious internal monologue I myself am all too familiar with. I agree with you, most people don't believe that, but it is nonetheless a belief that some women internalize after years of the socialization I described above. Yes it's not true that we're not good at anything, but there are subtle and pervasive forces at work in groups that cause women to believe this about themselves.