most of this list is generated from encounters where there's mixed company : picnics for the little league team, company picnics where most of the ladies are wives of the company employees, that sort of thing.
weirdly to me is that the harshest reactions tend to come from other women, and i don't know why.
i do know most male engineers never have issues, in fact, they never think about the gender stuff. which is part of the problem, of course - they don't think about how acting skewed from gender norms affect people. this is perfectly understandable, because 1) *they* are not acting differently from normal and 2) their collective heads are stuck into numbers, like me.
there are sexist assholes out there, there's no denying this. i find them more in casual social settings than business settings, which apparently backwards from where most ladies experience the worst bits of sexism.
i do think the whole thing is indicative of a society still transitioning from viewing women's proper place as strictly in the home to realizing women can be successful in all professions.
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Date: 2014-06-08 12:37 am (UTC)weirdly to me is that the harshest reactions tend to come from other women, and i don't know why.
i do know most male engineers never have issues, in fact, they never think about the gender stuff. which is part of the problem, of course - they don't think about how acting skewed from gender norms affect people. this is perfectly understandable, because 1) *they* are not acting differently from normal and 2) their collective heads are stuck into numbers, like me.
there are sexist assholes out there, there's no denying this. i find them more in casual social settings than business settings, which apparently backwards from where most ladies experience the worst bits of sexism.
i do think the whole thing is indicative of a society still transitioning from viewing women's proper place as strictly in the home to realizing women can be successful in all professions.
it's a thinky thing.
-bs