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And what are you going to do if your daughter wants to be a veterinarian? Is that a problem?
by crassus 13y ago
And what are you going to do if your daughter wants to be a veterinarian? Is that a problem?
- oskarth 13y agoWhy would he? And why are you asking this question? There's nothing in what he wrote that indicates that he would do that. Please don't bring negativity into this surprisingly positive and constructive sub thread.
- crassus 13y agoPoint taken. I object to the phrasing though. People having their own individual interests, sometimes non-technical, is not a problem. It's cool to expose people to options though! I wish I had access to a male-friendly version of a program like one of these when I was growing up.
- rhizome 13y agoDo you not know that Veterinary Medicine is heavily populated with women?
- jamesbritt 13y agoI think that was part of the point being made.
- mikeleeorg 13y agoSorry you're being downvoted. It's a fair question. I plan on exposing her to as many topics as I can. I'll support whatever path she takes. My job, as I see it, is partly to give her a taste of as many topics as possible, then to help guide her as her interests begin to emerge.
- crassus 13y agoThanks. I find it odd that supposedly pro-female movements denigrate all the things that women have participated in over the years. Women have always been with us, and they haven't been sitting around all day doing nothing! But we tell young girls nowadays that to be valuable, they have to do things that boys are doing. A true pro-female movement would first of all recognize the value of all the work of women over the millennia. And secondly, they would fight against discrimination. But the desire for equal representation in every field comes out perversely anti-female, since it values down everything females are doing and values up everything males are doing. If I have a daughter, it will be okay to me if she wants to be a scientist or a stay-at-home mom. My mom played a big role in my life for which I am forever grateful. That too is valuable.
- supersystem 13y agoIt's not that being a stay-at-home mom isn't valuable it's that you're giving up your independence. For most of history women of course didn't have much of a choice, even if they were educated.