tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post437844999731135171..comments2023-09-12T14:31:48.615+01:00Comments on The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money: Crypto-Patriarchy: The problem of Bitcoin's male dominationSuitpossumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02343981042238116686noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-81892888363608384482014-03-05T18:25:01.783+00:002014-03-05T18:25:01.783+00:00"White Man's Fault" is simply a mode..."White Man's Fault" is simply a modernization of the victorian concept "White Man's Burden" <br />flakeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05757050461646456931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-48057646696139426732014-03-02T02:29:33.569+00:002014-03-02T02:29:33.569+00:00Men are slowly waking up to this subtle misandry o...Men are slowly waking up to this subtle misandry of blaming men for the lack of female participation in some fields while also completely ignoring female personal responsibility in the issue. Most women don't want equality, they want an ambiguous state where they get all the rights of a man (and more) but few or none of the responsibility for their own actions. You want to be equal? Then contribute equally. Instead of suddenly busting out the pig tails and the childlike demands to have some one there to protect you from bad people. Men have to do this for themselves, if you want to be equal then learn to deal with the hurtles that men face. Having a penis is not some magic key to success, and your rhetoric is quite misandrist in tone bringing you full circle, perpetrating the behavior you claim to despise upon men, degrading men and women in the process. <br /><br />Try this fun little exercise. Read the article again and switch the male and female gender roles. Pretty offensive and sexist isn't it? Why is it that sexism against males is ok? Like people who think "reverse racism" is not as bad because it polarizes victimization in the "opposite" direction, leveling the playing field via destruction of others. You seem to be of the mind that sexism against males is some how less of a travesty because it is oppositely polarized. You are perpetrating the exact same behavior you claim to despise Brett.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-4420885376994151902014-02-25T10:10:27.975+00:002014-02-25T10:10:27.975+00:00I'm a woman who works in the tech sector, and ...I'm a woman who works in the tech sector, and I haven't been that interested in Bitcoin although I read about it some just to ensure that I have a basic understanding of it. For me, I think a large part of the reason I'm not that interested in Bitcoin is that there are so many interesting technologies available (Should I make models so I can play with the 3-D printer? Should I work on household automation with Arduino? Maybe I should fiddle around with a new programming language, that's always fun.) and I have no compelling reason to pick Bitcoin over some other developments. I'm not deterred by a male-dominated culture and kind of enjoy some of the competitive aspects. <br /><br />I expect that different women are disinterested for different reasons (my reasons are probably not the most common ones, but they are probably not unique - 'lack of time' is an oft-cited reason for women's reduced participation in free/libre and open source development, although this is often linked back to the fact that many relationships are still unequal, with women having more household responsibilities). So addressing lack of participation by women probably requires multiple approaches. People like me are probably the low-hanging fruit, in that we only need to be persuaded that Bitcoin is the most interesting of all the things I could be spending my free time on.<br /><br />One of my friends who is a Bitcoin enthusiast (her background is IT and finance) is interested in increasing women's participation in order to increase utility by making it more universal, and has been focusing on promoting the benefits to women who are not already into technical fields. She recently did an interview for a local magazine and launched a website: http://bitcoin-girl.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-71144103029023308392014-02-19T07:56:11.241+00:002014-02-19T07:56:11.241+00:00"Anybody got theories about why #bitcoin sce..."Anybody got theories about why #bitcoin scene is so male-heavy? Feels like giant cockfest, esp when compared to other alternative currencies<br /> — Brett Scott (@Suitpossum) November 14, 2013"<br /><br /><br />If you're so ashamed of being a man, there are medical solutions you know, Brittney.Darhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739506304036198805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-59632200635111216652014-02-15T14:02:20.119+00:002014-02-15T14:02:20.119+00:00Thanks LeonardThanks LeonardSuitpossumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02343981042238116686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-23354683005374953742014-02-15T00:14:01.117+00:002014-02-15T00:14:01.117+00:00Congratulations to the Mangina of the year.Congratulations to the Mangina of the year.nyctreemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04959693969002700977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-18056716962085007792014-02-13T06:10:45.420+00:002014-02-13T06:10:45.420+00:00"Claim that there is a male bias or discrimin..."Claim that there is a male bias or discrimination against women in a given subject to convince masses of people that men are discriminating against women purposely and methodically."<br /><br />Why the heck does it matter if it is, "purposely". A lot of completely stupid things, which are detrimental to progress, humanity in general, and just plain common sense, happen not because someone it "intentionally" doing so, but because its so completely intrenched in people's thinking that they have no idea its going on, and a large number of people get angry, pissed off, and, or, violent, when you show them that its actually happening.<br /><br />The issue isn't whether or not people are conspiring to cause it, but that it is, in fact, happening, and failing to point it out, talk about it, or change policy, does not solve the problem, but merely perpetuates the delusion that it isn't taking place. And, there is an element of this sort of institutional, ingrained, below awareness, "Oh, I don't think that way.", while never the less acting in ways that help keep things the way they are, in every social movement, and actual case of bigotry, that exists. Its the residue that sits, like slime, on the bottom of the pond, after most of the pollution has been drained out. It takes generations to get rid of, if it ever is. And, worse of all, as long as it remains, there is the potential of a whole new outbreak of it. Heck, we have so called "freedom lovers" suggesting, in their own delusional absurd view of things, that eliminating discrimination laws would be a grand idea, because.. we don't need them any more. I mean, WTF? But, its precisely this sort of, "Oh, well, people are just making shit up, so they can push for more privileges, not because they are disadvantaged.", nonsense that leads these sort of people to ignore every single real case of racism, sexism, etc., in favor of declaring the "war on prejudice is won, so we don't need laws about it."<br /><br />Well, sorry, but.. you have to have your head stuffed so far up your backside that you are seeing light at the end of the other end of the tunnel, to actually conclude that these issues are not actually real. Either that, or you just don't want to see it, and.. any two bit psychologist can tell you that when we want to believe such a thing, we will ignore all evidence against it, and hunt high and low for evidence in favor of it.<br /><br />Though, I suppose, you could also claim the other side is doing the same thing only you have to explain why women are lying when they say that people steal their work, refuse to pay them, grade them lower for equal work, or a hundred other things, including their own parents pushing boys to study "hard" subjects, and either not pushing the girls, or pushing them to be "girly", which means chearing, or cooking classes, or a whole host of other things that direct most of them, practically from birth, in any direction, at all, except sciences and computers. And, you know bloody well that even most magazines, TV shows, etc. push this vision of things, and that a whole segment of so called "conservatives" also push it, to one extent or another, some to extremes. People who, whether we know it or not, may be the tenured professor of a college, or the CEO of the company, or the high school administrator, or even the fraking guidance councilor.<br /><br />So, frak yes ,there are some people "intentionally" conspiring to push this idea that women don't belong in certain fields.<br /><br />But, then there is a vast majority, who just don't see it and unintentionally promote it, by just not seeing the problem, and doing the same things, the same ways, without anything changing much for them. And, they are the hardest ones to break of the habit, since they, literally, don't think they are part of the problem. After all, there are still people out there who are obviously worse, right? Gah!Kagehihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037921279395746555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-91798815847225144752014-02-12T17:51:42.635+00:002014-02-12T17:51:42.635+00:00When someone uses gender like a race-card of inequ...When someone uses gender like a race-card of inequality in a subject of discussion, it should send a warning of the OPs method of thinking. <br /><br />Method 1, the easy discriminiation route= Claim that there is a male bias or discrimination against women in a given subject to convince masses of people that men are discriminating against women purposely and methodically. The author may not think this himself but its easy to draw attention to your cause if you can make people believe that "women" are being oppressed in a given subject to then build a heavy support for your agenda. This agenda usually involves gathering as much academia, then media, then political then judicial support to force your agenda on a society in a given area. Because it focuses on the "interpreted discrimination" of a male heavy field rather than the "choices of women".<br /><br />Method 2, the slow encouragement route= Fact: There are far more men in a field than women. Thought: You want to see more women in this field. Ideas for a solution: Encourage women to invest or work in said field without any mention of gender or sexism or discrimination, bias etc etc. Then allow women to make their own choices yet again to enter this field.<br /><br />So Brett Scott, please evaluate your motives and your thought process in this. I detect a heavy anti-male bias in your writings and a desire to see women involved in bitcoint. Try to drop the bigotry against men and just encourage women to get involved. There may be some men in bitcoin who are jerks but you are suggesting bitcoin is a giant male organization bent on keeping women out. Your wrong, men got involved by choice, women have not chosen such in as great a numbers...yet. <br /><br />Do you want to encourage choice or do you want to force people to bend to your agenda?Vaka2vultrixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980447224856930272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-8547064613727951082014-02-03T23:50:59.755+00:002014-02-03T23:50:59.755+00:00You Won’t Scare a Woman With Bitcoin.
As for the ...You Won’t Scare a Woman With Bitcoin.<br /><br />As for the wo/men and Bitcoin community, I believe that the main reason is lack of passive info source. It is not any of your suggestions, otherwise I wouldn’t spend so much time writing thousands of words. I finally made a conclusion that Bitcoin community is not exclusive, by the way, it just do not let the passive information spread beyond created borders. It is a closed info system in terms of real life communication (real life bit is the most important one). I suppose that it is possible to take the mechanism that works to split up people by gender and find a way to direct it backwards. Providing PInSo, as I see it now, the best and the only way to make informational borders rust with time (and the abbreviation sounds funny to me, which it's advantage). <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00914666190680612745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-45310067182629759702014-02-03T23:47:01.457+00:002014-02-03T23:47:01.457+00:00Back to Encouragement.
Women (just as all the oth...Back to Encouragement.<br /><br />Women (just as all the other people) hardly ever need an encouragement, they need a passive information source. It is harder to create than a message 'let's encourage women in tech', but it builds the only good message - listen to others, make decisions by yourself. Now, when people are constantly talking about encouragement as a life west for others, we perceive that concept as an action for good. Usually people are blindfolded with their desire to help, incapable to understand that it’s just social rails, which lead to the deadend in most cases.<br />I have seen a lot of unhappy woman, who were encouraged to do Math in childhood driven by woman-in-tech ambitions of their parents and teachers or desire to be unique. Even though they are brilliant programmers, they are now experiencing backfire of social prejudice created around tech. Apart from the fact that money came to the scene, when they had got success in profession, now they are being discouraged to change the major by woman-in-tech people. I heard a lot of 'Ooooh, you are doing design now. Sure, math is too complicated for you', since I’ve started working as a designer (from both woman and man). Not as many people, I am lucky to have a good level of resistance for both encouragement and discouragement to not being bothered with these extremely helpful comments. It currently works as a formula - if you can do math && you are woman = you have to do math, otherwise, if you don’t do math = you can’t. I used to teach mathematics and I’m 100% sure that anyone is able to deal with math or programming, but it doesn't mean that they have to.<br /><br />Moreover, I would point out that encouragement is not a conversation between two equal parts, it presumes that the subject’s experience is more beneficial that the one of the object (wrongwrongwrongwrong). Woman are usually been put in this cognitive dissonance been protected, but not treated as equals at the same time (‘nothing very mean, but almost there’ is another form of it). On the other hand, encouragement makes reverse action on bepety-bopety type of men. They feel that big-to-weak message in the word encouragement and start to push back. In their universe the society is trying to make them help less fortunate (encourage woman). All the mechanisms bep-bop is going to use in his everyday life, is concealed games rather than straight actions against woman. These subtle mechanisms require new approaches and division on man and woman doesn’t help to lessen be-bo’s input into society, it is able to deal only with straightforward actions.<br /><br />Discouragement can't be cured by seemingly opposite action - encouragement, but it also can't compete with own experience. People who lack personal experience will start reminding the one gained from the passive informational source. When contradiction occurs, the main magic here is that they start questioning what is right, this seeds of doubt lead to independent thinking. Independent thinking scares people who may try to discourage.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00914666190680612745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-87311757054556138092014-02-03T23:45:11.537+00:002014-02-03T23:45:11.537+00:00Passive Information Source = Silver Platter
Unfo...Passive Information Source = Silver Platter<br /><br />Unfortunately, constant encouragement of my teachers and family to get a Math degree mattered a lot to my teenage brain, so I entered the Mathematical department after school. That form of care slowly eliminated me as an active part of the decision. Just as many people I lacked the information to make my own decision, and future was presented to me through experience of the other people (aka I was encouraged). Typical and the only environment where encouragement works. What could have helped me to make my own decision is information, but not any kind of it, I decided to call it The Passive Information Source (and I’m too lazy to type it all the time, so PInSo). <br /><br />Looking back at the school years, men of my age would recall sitting with their friends hacking the logic of computer games with speedruns or having a bit more hardcore competitions like writing virus, which opens floppy disk drive. Even if you were not the one doing it, you have got a vital information that people like you are capable to. We keep getting that information throughout our life through the social groups we are in (not deliberately). This is what I call passive information source. It has two functions - to tell you that 'you can do it' due to the short distance with the person who actually does and to constantly deliver unfiltered information in a gentle way, socialising. This is where boys painlessly learn to experiment with computers and be interested in tech, while the information and experience stays in their gender group. You won’t mention in a general conversation with a woman, that you mine Bitcoin, will you? It may sound silly, but this is the root of all evil. On the other hand, girls’ gender group usually get the source of information about fashion, for instance (it depends, of course, I’m talking about typical situation). I believe that due to that passive information centers, the main gender-profession groups are formed in adulthood. It usually takes a lot of effort to plug in, if you didn't have an easy social access to the variety of information from the field. Few times I was left with the necessity to get everything through the educational system(or internet), it works very slowly and requires huge amount of effort.<br /><br />People are usually get that passive information source not deliberately, and then we hear these stories, starting with 'I was lucky to meet Mr.A and it changed my life completely...’ In this case I admire what occupytours do, they seem to be on the right way to deliver the information just in the way it can be accepted by people, who lack the passive information source in this field. By the way, if you look at gender distribution at their tours, I believe it should be around 50/50(?), different age groups etc.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00914666190680612745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-24784279588992711142014-02-03T23:43:01.633+00:002014-02-03T23:43:01.633+00:00Hi Brett. I had no aim to compare 13YOGPP to tech ...Hi Brett. I had no aim to compare 13YOGPP to tech or business community in terms of its impact on power distribution in society. That was an attempt to find something you completely disconnected from on the level of personal communication. Sorry if I actually made you think why you don’t belong there. My theories are hard to explain without the context of my personal experience, since most of them are empirical.<br /><br />Based on your comments, I assume that you seriously think that encouragement is a useful social tool. It took me some time to translate ‘now I feel like I am 13’ to the speakable ideas. Two things about it made me look as the woman on the ecard posted by you: encouragement is usually used as substitution for information, and encouragement is not a conversation between two equal parts. The former makes it absolutely useless, even harmful, for the society, especially in the long run and the latter convinces encouraged in being weak. Encouragement should exists in some form, but I would characterise its current usage with one of my favourite Russian saying 'to hit the nails with the microscope’. <br /><br />There are few thought about it and my answer on 'the cockfest situation'. It won’t be short though, I will have to lessen encouragement value (in the meaning it is been used at the moment) along the way and introduce my idea on how wo/men get the information from the outside world. Another disclaimer: I don't like gender-based division, but I will let it be for now to illustrate the idea better.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00914666190680612745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-61530816394033801992014-01-30T19:56:43.802+00:002014-01-30T19:56:43.802+00:00I agree and I am a woman. And no I don't hate ...I agree and I am a woman. And no I don't hate my own sex, I just think that the kind of affirmative action being applied is so very false. I love my friends and mostly they think the same way as I do. But then we didn't marry thugs who hurt and destroy. Magariethahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10032917969443085692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-2886503251420012492014-01-30T14:41:06.823+00:002014-01-30T14:41:06.823+00:00I think you changed my post. I'm pretty sure t...I think you changed my post. I'm pretty sure that I didn't use exclamation marks, and that I didn't make that typo ("year" not "years"). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-58682836052346602242014-01-30T08:06:38.103+00:002014-01-30T08:06:38.103+00:00Very good article, thank you! Finally: the distrib...Very good article, thank you! Finally: the distribution of Bitcoin is unfair! That's way generated the Biteuro: <br />https://www.facebook.com/biteuro/posts/694589863927232?stream_ref=10Anitja-yogahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12701583630315552340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-13361057800979890532014-01-29T23:19:21.654+00:002014-01-29T23:19:21.654+00:00Hi, Brett!
I know very little about Bitcoin, but ...Hi, Brett!<br /><br />I know very little about Bitcoin, but I liked your article and think maybe I have a couple of possible explanations to add to yours.<br /><br />1) Women are poorer than men, so we would have less money to sink into weird shit that may or may not actually be useful.<br /><br />2) Women are known to spend what extra money they do have on things that they think will help their families --- this is why so many microlending firms prefer to lend to them. <br /><br />I think both of these explanations --- that we have less money to spend, and what we do have we are very picky about what we spend it <i>on</i> --- deal with the same thing, that maybe your other commenters and your original post also touched on with their saying women don't take financial risks. Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860246538349067232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-90156869301836528142014-01-29T18:17:32.559+00:002014-01-29T18:17:32.559+00:00" If you accept evolutionary biology (ie you ..." If you accept evolutionary biology (ie you don't live under a rock with the WBC) then you have to accept evolutionary psychology."<br /><br />Some of us actually read up on that subject, not project our own assumptions about it. And, sorry to tell you, but, this "assumption" that just because women have been told how to be for thousands of years, and can't avoid the social BS that pushes them to be that way, from birth, they are that way "naturally", is, it turns out, proving to be total nonsense when examined scientifically (instead of through the lens of, "Well, its always been that way, so obviously, they must have evolved to be that way." Its just not true, at all.Kagehihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037921279395746555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-45375701037521791742014-01-29T18:10:44.369+00:002014-01-29T18:10:44.369+00:00Oh and.. Great, another "libertarian" wh...Oh and.. Great, another "libertarian" who only gets the message that their are "moochers" in the world, but fails to grasp that fact that a) Rand would hate the people calling themselves Libertarians, and said as much herself at one point, to the effect, "I despise what they have done with my philosophy", and somehow, totally and completely, as usual, miss the fact that she was a) a feminist, and b) equated out of control corporations, which steal everyone else's work, to claim it as their own, then give nothing back to the ***creators***, which pretty much describes everything from today's idiot patent system, to perpetual copyright, to corporate law, in which "employment" is **always** a defacto acceptance that everything you every invent will be owned by the people you work for, not you, "looters".<br /><br />But, all you ever hear about from so called libertarian is how the people being robbed blind of their rights, their money, they ability to be anything other than a wage slave, and every single idea they ever personally come up with, while being paid vastly less than some twit whose only "idea" was opening a company, then stealing everyone else's ideas, to make himself rich, are "mooching".<br /><br />I thought libertarians where fools "before" I realized that they can't even comprehend their own supposed philosophy. Now.. its obvious that they are merely delusional - they all think they will be Galt, and yet, they are also all completely blind to the fact that the current capitalist system, as it stands, would eat Galt alive, and leave him in an underpaid desk job, while some con artist, whose only skill is convincing other people to let him steal their dreams, actually gets rich off Galt's ideas.<br /><br />All I can do is shake my head, and try not to laugh at the people selling themselves out, or cry at the fact that they would sell the rest of us to the looters, right along with themselves.Kagehihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037921279395746555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-15482297754589894682014-01-29T17:58:24.103+00:002014-01-29T17:58:24.103+00:00"If women spent less time time and effort bem..."If women spent less time time and effort bemoaning "underrepresented" social arenas and just went out and DID things (what a concept!) they might find themselves "represented" in more areas. Waiting to be "encouraged" is infantile behavior for grown women."<br /><br />And yet another in an endless series of comments from people that have no fraking clue what is actually going on. Here is a hint - they are discouraged from doing things, practically from birth, when they do do things, someone else often takes the credit, even today (and far, far worse in the past), and then, they usually get paid less, for the exact same amount of effort. And, all of that, when someone bothers to pay attention to them at all, instead of keeping them on the payroll for the rare times someone feels they need a "female perspective".<br /><br />The bloody dealer is stacking the deck, and you are whining that they just need to play more hands. Get a bloody clue.Kagehihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09037921279395746555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-32361290600427365612014-01-29T16:58:35.797+00:002014-01-29T16:58:35.797+00:00Hi Brett, what a great article. Thanks for writing...Hi Brett, what a great article. Thanks for writing it. And great links too - should keep me going for a while :)<br /><br />I like the tweet 'cos it's tech'. I agree. When people hear 'virtual' they hear 'geek'. But is it just women who stay away? What about non-technically engaged men? <br /><br />Since I am a software developer as well as a writer I have written a few posts on why there are not more women in IT but I think because programming is not taught in school, only young people who identify with the geek culture get into programming and the bitcoin demographic is a reflection of this.<br /><br />Your comment about science-backed racism strikes a chord. I don't think women are encouraged into the tech industry when we are constantly being told we're better at multitasking and men are better at maths. Even if it were true that men are predisposed towards technology, I don't think the disparity in numbers reflects a natural divergence. There are many more factors - as you have so thoroughly examined in the above.<br /><br />Thanks.<br />Fiona Fiona Pearsehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00322089620930374315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-10437697612183000292014-01-29T16:08:37.571+00:002014-01-29T16:08:37.571+00:00Brett Scott can't make an argument without pla...Brett Scott can't make an argument without playing the race or gender card. He's a self-hating mangina and a leftist toadie for his femifascist masters. IOW: he has nothing to back up his BS except to attack his critics Keep preaching the truth, Stuck Mud.CrossoverManiachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10018175089887071733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-8263123131451016432014-01-28T22:13:57.412+00:002014-01-28T22:13:57.412+00:00You, on the other hand, couldn't succeed with ...You, on the other hand, couldn't succeed with all of those factors. Congratulations, maybe you are gay? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-51459289932639103822014-01-28T22:09:42.868+00:002014-01-28T22:09:42.868+00:00Wow, what a triumph to apply your ideology. You co...Wow, what a triumph to apply your ideology. You could use it to reveal the hidden insights about a colony of mushrooms just as well. What tendency of society are you really talking about, though? Women do easier work, men work harder. Women have value automatically, men are nothing unless they earn it. Do you women-worshipers honestly want to change this arrangement by finding ways to make women worthless like in the East, where women do indeed hold their own better in technical fields? Oops, those poor women are suffering under penisarchy too, a perpetual grievance for you to address, even in a lesbian society. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-111076801074854012014-01-28T21:22:25.107+00:002014-01-28T21:22:25.107+00:00"I am very aware that males and females in so..."I am very aware that males and females in society are socialised in such a way as encourage them to 'like' certain things"<br /><br />That's absolutely asinine, devoid of evidence, and contrary to existing evidence that shows that boys around the world will behave as boys. If you accept evolutionary biology (ie you don't live under a rock with the WBC) then you have to accept evolutionary psychology. Boys and girls will have different, innate predispositions. This is why there are universal behaviors that extend beyond boarders, beyond cultures. Travel around the world and watch as boys partake in rough and adventurous play and girls partake in nurturing play. <br /><br />Boys are far more likely to get hurt because they are far more likely to see if they can climb the tree, to see if they can jump over the ditch, to see if the can swing out over the lake on the vine. Granted, boys and girls can be socialized away from natural behavior, instilled with a sense of fear for snakes for example and girls can be socialized to be more aggressive and risk prone. However, if we do NOT socialize children to behave in a certain way, then we get the exact kind of behaviors you are railing against.<br /><br />Basically you are an individual who seeks parity (when # men > # women) and ignore otherwise. You would rather a boardroom be diverse with people from all backgrounds rather than consisting of the people who have put in the time to get there. Equal outcome as opposed to equal opportunity.<br /><br />"As for Pinterest, I didn't claim that women are not interested in cooking, fashion and home decor"<br /><br />No, but you certainly don't seem to have given talks or written blogs about it either. For you #women > #men == OK!<br /><br />The Deviant Sophisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03273633546946413840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454624189383327908.post-22875727823498021982014-01-28T21:05:17.981+00:002014-01-28T21:05:17.981+00:00This is probably the most retarded article I'v...This is probably the most retarded article I've ever read.<br /><br />To the author: Please, get the most vicious form of cancer and die.<br />Please, I beg you. Either that or kill yourself. Please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com