Biases and most negative behaviors are not built in[1], they are part of experiential memory and hence learnt(and can be erased[0]). Racial profiling, gender ro

Biases and most negative behaviors are not built in[1], they are part of experiential memory and hence learnt(and can be erased[0]). Racial profiling, gender roles and biases in general are established when we are young(or at least open to change) and subjected to norms and stereotypical behavior[2][3]. Women did not magically drop out of Software professions in the 80s it's because WE handed the young boy a PC and the girl a doll[4]. Why is our reaction so visceral to some forms of biases and negative behaviors and not others? It is because we SEE, FEEL and READ about the damage on a daily basis to real people and then, eventually, envision and bring laws into existence that punish such behavior. Eventually sexual exploitation will be seen on a level field with denying the right to vote based on caste or employment based on color of the skin. But it will be permanent only if the good people in power do something, until then we have The Times and WAPO to tell these stories. [0] https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.115.5.459 https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.115.5.4... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Heuristics_and_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow#Heuris... [2] http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-25271-001 http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1980-25271-001 [3] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.872.5825&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.872... [4] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...