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Female Engineers: Too Fit For The Role

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Re: Female Engineers: Too Fit For The Role

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You may want to consider hanging out with a different crowd... And you may want to consider actually being more truthful about what you and your pals do do when you hang around. (Not to mention the irony of 5 lines below, in your same comment, using language like "gives a shit"). > Also, this is not "hanging out", this is the workplace. Different standards should apply. Only for puritan cultures, that hold a clear…

I don't give a shit about sexist and homophobic neanderthals who need to put down, intimidate and bully other people to make themselves feel better. And no, I truthfully don't hang out with such scum. You seem to have a very twisted idea of what normal, civilized male behavior is.

>You seem to have a very twisted idea of what normal, civilized male behavior is.

Yes, it's "not giving a shit" about people forced into unemployment, and calling other people "scum" and "neanderthals" (after an extinct race of people -- might as well go full on and use the other n... word).

Swearing, holier-than-thou, casually racist remarks for whole classes of people (as if construction workers described in the article are "sexist and homophobic neanderthals" for making some comments between them in jest as 99.9% of the male population does, and one should "not give a shit" about them).

Way to prove your superior, non-sexist, caring and sensitive "civilized male behavior".

Re: Female Engineers: Too Fit For The Role

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Sexism, bad. But let's keep our heads on straight here.

Just because someone treats you like shit, and you're a woman, doesn't mean it's sexism.

1. Maybe they treat her like shit because she's new, and the feminine stuff is just one reason to rag on her. If she was a tall guy, they'd probably make fun of that too.

2. Maybe they treat her like shit because, for some reason, despite all this, she hasn't actually asked them to stop -- just complained about it on the Internet

A lot of people will get angry at me for this, because sexism is a very real problem.

But not everything is fucking sexism.

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