Hardly a mental crouch my friend, I have too many projects going on to spend much time worrying about an attempted zinger.
And the lack of STEM careers for females is a really multifaceted problem. If you listen to the crazy 3rd wave feminists they’ll likely say it is all our fault, but that’s not true.
Really? My oldest daughter got accepted into five medical schools across the country.
I don’t think she’s going to have a problem with a STEM career.
You don’t date much do you?
Do you believe in hard wired differences between men and women? I mean outside of the physical. Or are men and women largely interchangeable and only physical characteristics separate them?
Nope, but she will likely help contribute to the doctor shortage due to sex differences.
My sister is a paediatric dentist, and now with 2 kids she works all of 2-3 days per week.
Not since I have been married. But that has nothing to do with the fact that you have taken (and continue to take) alternatively silly and dangerous positions on things of public importance but tragically you are allowed to vote.
I think you misunderstood me. Or perhaps more likely, I wrote inarticulately. I do not hold that the lack of women in STEM is due to some barrier or some patriarchal nonsense. I hold it is because women by and large have not chosen to pursue it (although there are more and more going into medicine recently; I am thinking engineering/science/technology more).
I think women are perfectly capable of both performing well and being accepted in STEM tracks–both educationally and socially. There is a well known tendnency for certain careers to be female or male dominated, but in my opinion this represents choice, not some socially “unfair” barrier.
I think your daughter chose well and she will do great things.
I’m surprised your wife allows you to talk to men with dangerous positions on the Internet. Or did you find a way around the parental controls?
Here’s another dangerous view for you guys:
Women are best suited and most happy being stay at home full time mothers relying upon their husbands to support them than being full time careerists.
They will never enjoy a life of competing with men, instead being complementary to men is where they strive and are most happy.
What’s old will become new again.
Edit: I’m speaking in general terms, small amounts of ultra high IQ women will be happier in careers than motherhood
You shouldn’t be surprised - she, like me, understands that the holders of such views are themselves small, half-educated, and overcompensating for something, and they are easy sport.
On the topic, though, I understand your confusion - you see, we Americans have a good historical line of appreciating strong women as strong women, not continuing to subordinate them because we feel insecure about our sense of masculinity. That your retrograde view of women - inherited from wherever you hail from - conflicts with that proud American tradition, well, that isn’t our problem to fix, aye?
This much is very, very true.
However, there is a substantial portion of our female population who VERY much identify with the traditional viewpoint, that there is nothing to be ashamed of by staying in the home and raising children.
To say that women who love to do that are somehow being subjugated, is just as bad as Raj’s views to the contrary.
I think there’s a pretty big difference between this:
Which is true and a reasonable assertion.
And this:
Which is your standard theraj generalization, which is absurd and pulled directly out of his ass.
I will respond to your posts, but for those of you criticizing my views, please answer what I wrote below:
Completely agree, and I am very close to some who so exactly that, and that is what I firmly believe.
But they do this based on wisdom and intelligence, and they make an informed choice to do so, not because they must yield under the need to be suvservient or relegated to such a role because they are inadequate to other tasks.
Yes, I re-read the post…I was only speaking in defense of women who identify with traditional roles.
I 100% agree with this.
A decision that depends totally on individual life choices.
Boy this definitely full of fembot speak.
Every male-female sexual relationship has a dominant and submissive. Chances are since are completely oblivious to this, you are in all likelihood the submissive.
I would like to point out that I am no way suggesting women’s rights should be taken away, opportunities for employment, education etc.
I am saying they are happiest in a subservient role to a man, raising children and being a homemaker.
I consider parenting an extremely challenging job. No I am not a parent myself, but when I see my sister and her husband constantly on full alert ensuring their small children do not injure themselves, waking up in the middle of the night to constantly tend to them, feeding them teaching them etc I see how difficult dedicated parenting truly is.
I do not place a successful career over parenting. They are equal. A subservient woman is not a low achiever or even less of an achiever than her husband who works full time.
And the ones I know who have gone the fully traditional route actually do so from a very independent, feminist angle - they reject the idea that simply because homemaking/childraising has been devalued by society and “The Market” (because it isn’t measured in income), the role is lesser or without value. Interestingly, they see the traditional way as a countercultural exptession, in a way.
Sure thing, Einstein. All of us are waiting with breathless anticipation about what the single man who didn’t grow up in our culture and has no children has to say about the right and proper way to behave in a marriage and raise children.
Hilarious.