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The only thing this person needs help with is how to laugh at the cleverness here. Doesn't this actually push really hard towards a perfect 50/50 split of men

The only thing this person needs help with is how to laugh at the cleverness here. Doesn't this actually push really hard towards a perfect 50/50 split of men and women in the classes anyway? Isn't that exactly what the professor wants?

quickthrower2 4y ago
Think of it closer to a company where the interns are girls, the team leaders are boys (who took the job to chat up the interns) and are now in a position of power and can legitimately ask for time with the girls (in 1-1s). They don’t do anything illegal or even hit on them overtly but it is creepy as hell.
- thepasswordis 4y ago
  Is that what's happening? It sounds like senior level students are auditing the classes, not working as TAs or something.
  - quickthrower2 4y ago
    From OP: > since we routinely have cases where a young man is leading open labs as if they're a teacher themselves (in order to "wow" their female classmates, offer "private free tutoring sessions", etc). Some of the young students in my class take up these offers, and this further demoralizes other female students seeing this happen (i.e. only attractive women being offered tutoring sessions).
- 8note 4y ago
  Are they actually in positions of power? They are not marking papers, and nobody is required by their course to attend said 1-1s
  - wilsonnb3 4y ago
    The whole reason they chose these specific classes is because they are in a position of power in the class via already knowing the subject matter. It's not like they picked random classes that have a lot of girls in them.
    - gameman144 4y ago
      How is this power, though? All the other students can still learn the information just as well as they otherwise would. Knowledge isn't a zero-sum game. I took an art history class one time. One of the students worked at a local museum doing some curation work. I still learned art history, and that one student came across as a know-it-all, but everything was absolutely fine.

quickthrower2 4y ago

Think of it closer to a company where the interns are girls, the team leaders are boys (who took the job to chat up the interns) and are now in a position of power and can legitimately ask for time with the girls (in 1-1s). They don’t do anything illegal or even hit on them overtly but it is creepy as hell.

thepasswordis 4y ago
Is that what's happening? It sounds like senior level students are auditing the classes, not working as TAs or something.
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  From OP: > since we routinely have cases where a young man is leading open labs as if they're a teacher themselves (in order to "wow" their female classmates, offer "private free tutoring sessions", etc). Some of the young students in my class take up these offers, and this further demoralizes other female students seeing this happen (i.e. only attractive women being offered tutoring sessions).
8note 4y ago
Are they actually in positions of power? They are not marking papers, and nobody is required by their course to attend said 1-1s
- wilsonnb3 4y ago
  The whole reason they chose these specific classes is because they are in a position of power in the class via already knowing the subject matter. It's not like they picked random classes that have a lot of girls in them.
  - gameman144 4y ago
    How is this power, though? All the other students can still learn the information just as well as they otherwise would. Knowledge isn't a zero-sum game. I took an art history class one time. One of the students worked at a local museum doing some curation work. I still learned art history, and that one student came across as a know-it-all, but everything was absolutely fine.