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> Indeed, if we're operating on feelings and perception alone... If additional evidence was to be unearthed that this person is actually a raging bigot I'm sor
by dguaraglia 9y ago
> Indeed, if we're operating on feelings and perception alone... If additional evidence was to be unearthed that this person is actually a raging bigot
I'm sorry, but trying to bring up physical make up as an explanation of why women may or may not be interested in a subject that was denied to them until very recently is ill-informed at best. It'd be like concluding that "gay people aren't interested in getting married, based on the last 200 years of history until 2015."
> Indeed, if we're operating on feelings and perception alone, then firing this individual probably makes a lot of sense from a PR standpoint.
It's not PR, it's HR and legal. Nobody is trying to hang him in a public plaza, but there's a pretty solid argument about him being a future liability.
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- collyw 9y agohow was a subject denied to anyone?
- dguaraglia 9y agoAre you kidding me? I'll give you a hint: go back fifteen years, and watch the ads on a single day of TV programming. Then classify who the cleaning and cooking ads are targeted to, and who the ads for high tech widgets are targeted to. Then come back and tell me there's no expected gender behavior.
- collyw 9y ago"may not be interested in a subject that was denied to them until very recently" No TV ad is from 15 years ago was denying anyone anything. They were playing to certain stereotypes, yes, but thats completely different from denying someone a job in tech.
- dguaraglia 9y agoAnd you believe the stereotypes were completely unrelated to the roles society assigned to the genders? And that those roles might affect the choices people might make during their lives? It's kind of unbelievable that people who are willing to take a single study that says pre-natal testosterone determines all future behavior at the same time are happy to dismiss hundreds of other studies showing the impact of gender stereotypes.
- collyw 9y agoIt's still not denying anyone anything.