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Have you ever considered things that men have to deal with and are not being able to put them in terms of 'being male in the X industry/community/field"? This
by cristianpascu 9y ago
Have you ever considered things that men have to deal with and are not being able to put them in terms of 'being male in the X industry/community/field"?
This is not to minimize anything a woman has to go through, but let's, at least, not compare as if it's on equal terms. If we're able to talk about women issues at all, isn't that because women and men are different? Why compare it so easily and uni-dimensionally?
BTW, what about cases where a woman approaches a man about a technical matter, but with a _romantinc_ interest? Where's the real danger in that? We, as grown ups, should have the tools to dismiss politely romantic interests. It's the same case between men and men/women, as it is between women and women/men. It's part of life. The expression 'unwanted advances' is by far the craziest accusation one could make to a person. Man or woman.
- linkmotif 9y agoA man worries a woman won’t like him. A woman worries a man will kill her.
- megaman22 9y agoThe chances of that happening with your typical Dilbertian white male software engineer are vanishingly small.
- linkmotif 9y agoAnd then there is reality: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides-women/534306/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/07/homicides..., etc.
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- LeifCarrotson 9y agoThe parent said that the chances of that happening are vanishingly small. Your source (and your source's source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6628a1.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6628a1.htm) support that statement: > The CDC analyzed the murders of women in 18 states from 2003 to 2014, finding a total of 10,018 deaths. > The overall age-adjusted homicide rate was 2.0 per 100,000 women. 18 states, tens of millions of people, and an inconceivably small number of homicides in reality. The overwhelming majority of women are not murdered by men, but live a long life and die of heart disease, cancer, or other old-age diseases. Even when you only consider the age range in question - call it 18-64 - the leading causes of death are still unintentional injuries, cancer, heart disease, and suicide: https://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/2014/all-females/index.htm https://www.cdc.gov/women/lcod/2014/all-females/index.htm There is a spike in homicides up to a staggering 7% of all deaths for the 15-24 age group, but that's only because young women almost never die, there's little real danger but an awful lot of fear surrounding this topic.
- linkmotif 9y agoYes most people die of natural causes.
- kentrado 9y agoGeez, men are a bunch killers. Why can they be more like women?
- progressivebaka 9y agoWell statically a man should worry whether both a man or a woman would kill him. Because as a whole, men kill men in a higher rate than they kill women. And, women kill men more than they kill women.
- troupe 9y agoLisa Nowak