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sounds like theres a healthy dose of sexism at play here.
by permo-w 3y ago
sounds like theres a healthy dose of sexism at play here.
- bongodongobob 3y agoNo, there are very real differences between genders. You can pretend there isn't for Internet Points, but you're just wrong.
- permo-w 3y agothere's a gulf between "there are no differences between genders" and mass generalisation based on emotional reaction, and for me this flies a lot closer to the second one
- bongodongobob 3y agoSo you haven't been in a college dorm then.
- petsfed 3y agoI'm not gonna speculate about whether its biological or something to do with how 19 year old men ca 2006 had been socialized up to that point. All I'm saying is that it happened dozens of times, and it was never a woman who pushed that door open.
- joebob42 3y agoYou already gave an explanation before that had nothing to do with any difference in gendered behavior (it was next to the men's locker room), which makes it even more baffling that you're now suggesting that no, it really was because men were less capable of not opening the door.
- petsfed 3y agoIt does look like that, and certainly, that may have been an additional factor, but the main issue is that this exit was the one closest to student housing (dorms and fraternity/sororities) and also to the men's locker room. It was very rare that folks would go out the fire door by the women's locker room, but it wasn't really adjacent to where the newest students would be. To be clear, I identify as male, and have done so my whole life. So this wasn't like "young college male sees a woman to antagonize" or "college female sees sexism everywhere", so much as "young college male somehow believes that 'alarm will sound' is just a bluff". Whether or not that's biological in nature, or just the way 19 year old men circa 2006 were socialized, I won't speculate. But I never saw a woman open that door.
- sandspar 3y agoYou seem all twisted in knots.