Sexism, god help us (2 Viewers)

Sorry it's only tangentially related to the title but it's not really hellworld and it's not even WTF worthy.

Just.... oh yeah... I know the type.
 
This morning I posed as my sister for about 20 mins to sort something out that she couldn't get to due to work.

Fair bit of flirting going on, even after mentioning my husband and child.
 
My sister in law did a welding course last year. She was the only female on this course. The only female ever to take the course in fact. The instructors took her aside and asked if she would prefer to have her lunch with the secretaries as the men use strong language like "root" (a welding term). I've lost count of the crazy but mostly hilarious sexist shit she had to put up with.

In the end she came top of her class and was awarded a much sought after place on a specialty welding course this year.
 
My sister in law did a welding course last year. She was the only female on this course. The only female ever to take the course in fact. The instructors took her aside and asked if she would prefer to have her lunch with the secretaries as the men use strong language like "root" (a welding term). I've lost count of the crazy but mostly hilarious sexist shit she had to put up with.

In the end she came top of her class and was awarded a much sought after place on a specialty welding course this year.


Your sister in law sounds like a (long suffering) boss.
 
My sister in law did a welding course last year. She was the only female on this course. The only female ever to take the course in fact. The instructors took her aside and asked if she would prefer to have her lunch with the secretaries as the men use strong language like "root" (a welding term). I've lost count of the crazy but mostly hilarious sexist shit she had to put up with.

I initially misread that as wedding (sorry, I'm a pig) and was all confused about what came after. Why was she doing it by herself without her fiance? Why are there no women that ever do it? And then started picturing her in a specialist course full of mid 40's farmer bachelor types and "root" being the official course term for when they teach this pack of virgins how to ride.

I should pay more attention.
 
My sister in law did a welding course last year. She was the only female on this course. The only female ever to take the course in fact. The instructors took her aside and asked if she would prefer to have her lunch with the secretaries as the men use strong language like "root" (a welding term). I've lost count of the crazy but mostly hilarious sexist shit she had to put up with.

In the end she came top of her class and was awarded a much sought after place on a specialty welding course this year.

where was this welding course? i may have to do one for work
 


Rippon’s central message is that “a gendered world will produce a gendered brain”. Her book stands with Angela Saini’s 2017 Inferior and Cordelia Fine’s 2010 Delusions of Gender in rooting out the “neurosexism” that has pervaded attempts to understand difference at the brain level. It’s a juicy history that would make for super-fun reading, if it were all truly in the past. Sadly, the moles keep surfacing. Rippon begins with an 1895 quote from social psychologist Gustave Le Bon, who used his portable cephalometer to declare that women “represent the most inferior forms of human evolution”. She ends in 2017, with Google engineer James Damore blogging to co-workers about “biological causes” for the dearth of women in tech and leadership roles.


@Cornu Ammonis
you do brain science right? what make ye of this?
 


Rippon’s central message is that “a gendered world will produce a gendered brain”. Her book stands with Angela Saini’s 2017 Inferior and Cordelia Fine’s 2010 Delusions of Gender in rooting out the “neurosexism” that has pervaded attempts to understand difference at the brain level. It’s a juicy history that would make for super-fun reading, if it were all truly in the past. Sadly, the moles keep surfacing. Rippon begins with an 1895 quote from social psychologist Gustave Le Bon, who used his portable cephalometer to declare that women “represent the most inferior forms of human evolution”. She ends in 2017, with Google engineer James Damore blogging to co-workers about “biological causes” for the dearth of women in tech and leadership roles.


@Cornu Ammonis
you do brain science right? what make ye of this?

IIRC I have heard pro-trans advocates cite science regarding gendered brains, this could throw a spanner in there.
 
IIRC I have heard pro-trans advocates cite science regarding gendered brains, this could throw a spanner in there.
I'd imagine so, it's a thorny subject that would probably end with me getting cancelled if I was in the public eye.
 

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