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> "different people like different things" This is not without influence though. If you grow up always seeing men as doctors and women as nurses, when you deci
by pyre 12y ago
> "different people like different things"
This is not without influence though. If you grow up always seeing men as doctors and women as nurses, when you decide that you want to go into medicine it will set your expectations about what your should strive for. To say that seeing something always be a "certain way" does not subtly influence people ignores basic human nature.
If you (as a boy) see knitting as "something that girls do" you may suppress your interest in it as a child because you don't want to be ridiculed. This just further re-enforces the idea that only women are interested in knitting. There may be the rare male that dares to not care what the prevailing social winds are, but we can't necessarily rely on people always ignoring societal pressures. Discouraging the societal pressures in the first place is much better.
- Karunamon 12y agoWe agree, but the problem is I see comparatively little effort being expended to change those perceptions as I do effort expended on (and now apparently, provably so) misdirected outrage at pay and candidate selection and such. How does one even go about proving that the "social pressure" is or isn't more than monkey-see-monkey-do? I think I understand the theory, but I definitely don't understand what its logical basis is. The further I dig, the further I see more subjective a priori assumptions.