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Doesn't it sound super-weird though? You'd never talk about a guy's marital status and the attractiveness of his spouse in his introduction at a tech conference
by seldo 15y ago
Doesn't it sound super-weird though? You'd never talk about a guy's marital status and the attractiveness of his spouse in his introduction at a tech conference; why on earth would you say it about a woman?
- erichocean 15y agoYou would if you were speaking to an audience full of women, where that kind of comment happens all the time. And where, I might add, no one rushes to the defense of men with a "cut the sexist crap" article.
- brown9-2 15y agoSo it's ok if you make these references to pander to your audience? I have a hard time imagining a man saying this about another man in front of any type of audience.
- erichocean 15y agoClearly, the opposite situation is a woman saying something about a man to a group composed 90% of women. And yeah, that happens all the time. Somehow, men deal with it (I know: the horror.)
- thtrombonist 15y agoI don't agree with the idea that because one group deals with it, everyone should. This also discards context -- if something is systemic and happens all the time, it has a different impact than something exceptional.
- yc11 15y agoThese things aren't symmetric. Check out: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/17/tanya-gold-stripping http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/17/tanya-go...
- ben0x539 15y agoMaybe we could hand the poor men some wage disparity to make up for that sort of thing. Oh, wait.
- mcantor 15y agoAnd where, I might add, no one rushes to the defense of men with a "cut the sexist crap" article. Why would they? Men aren't being oppressed by sexism!