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Very male dominated. The culture is not good, men speak fast, often cut each other off and finish each other's sentences. There's a bit of blame and other negat

Very male dominated. The culture is not good, men speak fast, often cut each other off and finish each other's sentences. There's a bit of blame and other negativity. I think women would probably find it uncomfortable if watching it on a TV. When there was a woman working with us, she was often put on a pedestal, given unequal room to talk but otherwise ignored and generally had lower expectations on her projects. I don't really know what to make of it, but probably we ought to change how we interact, as it's not approachable by someone who isn't also in a cutthroat mode where they are competing for airtime. I'm not sure why people treated a woman differently either; many of the men in the office have partners, I wonder if that was a factor.

Wissenschaftler 4y ago
I hate when other men turn everything into a competition. Like, we are discussing something during a coffee break, something completely unrelated to our work. Some men still cannot resist turning it into an argument that they have to win. I am not interested in that. I value truth and intellectual honestly much higher.
- anon291 4y ago
  You should look for value in others traits instead of assuming the superiority of your own. While I personally am more like you, I recognize the value that competitive people bring to the table. Hating a group of people due to a personality characteristic is honestly a disservice to your own intellectual curiosity. Have you ever sought to understand why they are so competitive? Also a lot of this is rooted in internalized misandry. According to my wife women also turn everything into a competition. But of course, there's no competition between women and men because all competition is ultimately sexual in nature. Which is probably why men don't notice women's competitiveness.
AnimalMuppet 4y ago
> When there was a woman working with us, she was often put on a pedestal, given unequal room to talk but otherwise ignored and generally had lower expectations on her projects. We have very few women. But the one we have, she earned her pedestal. I was there when we interviewed her. In an interview, you ask questions to see how much the candidate knows. We started there, but with her we switched. Halfway through the interview, we started asking questions because we wanted to learn things. That was different - that's never happened with anyone else we've interviewed.

Wissenschaftler 4y ago

I hate when other men turn everything into a competition. Like, we are discussing something during a coffee break, something completely unrelated to our work. Some men still cannot resist turning it into an argument that they have to win. I am not interested in that. I value truth and intellectual honestly much higher.

anon291 4y ago
You should look for value in others traits instead of assuming the superiority of your own. While I personally am more like you, I recognize the value that competitive people bring to the table. Hating a group of people due to a personality characteristic is honestly a disservice to your own intellectual curiosity. Have you ever sought to understand why they are so competitive? Also a lot of this is rooted in internalized misandry. According to my wife women also turn everything into a competition. But of course, there's no competition between women and men because all competition is ultimately sexual in nature. Which is probably why men don't notice women's competitiveness.

AnimalMuppet 4y ago

> When there was a woman working with us, she was often put on a pedestal, given unequal room to talk but otherwise ignored and generally had lower expectations on her projects. We have very few women. But the one we have, she earned her pedestal. I was there when we interviewed her. In an interview, you ask questions to see how much the candidate knows. We started there, but with her we switched. Halfway through the interview, we started asking questions because we wanted to learn things. That was different - that's never happened with anyone else we've interviewed.