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The political correctness climate is so unpredictable. I'm considered both sexist & feminist due to being a white male who doesn't pay attention to the gender o
by __s 9y ago
The political correctness climate is so unpredictable. I'm considered both sexist & feminist due to being a white male who doesn't pay attention to the gender of my non romantic relationships. Laissez faire ideals makes you an enemy of everyone in an age of 'allies'
- ScottBurson 9y agoI have not experienced this. How does it play out in real life? Can you give some examples?
- nine_k 9y agoEasy. Don't make discounts or other a priori judgments about the other person based on gender. Outside of childbirth, and certain extreme physical activities, assume no difference between carriers of XX and XY chromosomes. Age, culture, experience, etc play by far a bigger role, and make the real difference. For me, this works reasonably well, and meets about equal (quite moderate) resistance from tradition-minded people in countries as different as US and Russia. (This also illustrates that a culture predominant among engineers likely differs less between countries that between different social strata or education backgrounds in the same country. Compared to this, inter-gender differences can be very safely assumed to be zero.)
- greglindahl 9y agoAll those studies showing that basically everyone has an unconscious bias for gender and race don't apply to you?