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My statement is quite clear. It's not a blanket statement that 'men are resilient'. It's that men are resilient to leaving tech jobs (and other well-paying jobs
by anon291 4y ago
My statement is quite clear. It's not a blanket statement that 'men are resilient'. It's that men are resilient to leaving tech jobs (and other well-paying jobs) because we're kind of forced to keep working by how families typically end up being set up. That is not a blanket statement that men are more resilient, which would be a statement saying that all male adults are more resilient than female adults, which is not categorically true.
- lapcat 4y ago> It's that men are resilient to leaving tech jobs (and other well-paying jobs) because we're kind of forced to keep working by how families typically end up being set up. But these two things — (1) men are resilient to leaving tech jobs and (2) men are forced to keep working — are precisely what I'm questioning, not a "blanket statement". How families typically end up being set up is a result, not a cause. You're not forced to be typical. Honestly, you make men sound pretty weak, as if they have no agency, and are powerless in the face of society and their spouses.