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This is a horrible analogy. It sounds really pretty at first glance, but the question is never addressed as to why that's the situation to begin with. In real l
by drharris 13y ago
This is a horrible analogy. It sounds really pretty at first glance, but the question is never addressed as to why that's the situation to begin with. In real life, everybody can equally use an escalator. Does the up escalator have a sign saying "Men only?" No. Are men pushing women down? No. What is preventing women from using the up escalator?
Maybe the real question is why her analogous women are looking for elevators and going up the wrong escalator instead of just doing it the way everyone else is?
- king_jester 13y ago> Does the up escalator have a sign saying "Men only?" No. Are men pushing women down? No. In terms of the analogy, yes men are pushing women down and the escalator is men only, whether explicitly stated or implicitly understood. This analogy is overstretched though, a lot of the discrimination people face is institutional in nature.
- drharris 13y agoFrom what I've seen, men who actually push women down get thrown off the escalator, so to speak. I don't think men are actually pushing women down. Crowding them out, maybe, but not pushing them down. Of course I'm not in SV, so who know what brogrammer stuff goes on there.
- john_b 13y agoThe main problem with the analogy is that it presumes its own conclusions. This isn't usually a big problem for analogies since they're not supposed to be the core of an argument, but in this case the full post is one big analogy, so it doesn't really hold up.