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I didn't talk about the discrimination hypothesis group, let's not fall into the trap of a false dichotomy. Did you watch the video I linked? It's a long time s
by tarsinge 9y ago
I didn't talk about the discrimination hypothesis group, let's not fall into the trap of a false dichotomy. Did you watch the video I linked? It's a long time since I did but I don't remember the word discrimination being even pronounced.
I specifically presented a third hypothesis, that the primary driver is cultural (in the sense opposed to natural, not the "tech culture") i.e women having internalized since childhood "it's not for me", and men internalized "women have a different brain", like stated in the sibling comment. Different interests is not wrong but it's a symptom, same as discriminations exists but they are more of a symptom reinforcing the cause for me.
I don't think the different-interests hypothesis group is dishonest, my opinion is that they are wrong and that some might instead switch to "my culture and gender roles are fine, don't want to mix things up with feminized men and women having boy's center of interests etc..." (and that's often what comes out when I start digging when debating this topic). I disagree with this opinion but at leat it's debatable (vs some pseudo-scientific genetic predisposition).
Edit: for the other cultures point, I didn't say the gender equity was good, just that more women were interested tech in some.