@Kickable @Daemoroth "general awareness and employment initiatives could do a lot for the industry."
There have been and are general awareness and employment initiatives. They are a giant waste of time and money because the proportion of women in computer science fields have actually decreased over the years.
@moncealyo A lot of the "sexist" gamers try to get their girlfriends into gaming. I am one of them and have certainly made headways, but there are major differences in the kinds of games we like to play. I finally got her into first-person games but she won't play any game that has enemies that move and shoot her. She still moves each stick individually to move and look around despite playing through the entirety of Portal 2. She refuses to even try mouse and keyboard games.
@Fernin-Ker I would be okay with affirmative action if it were disclosed to the beneficiary of it. I am Hispanic and I went to a school that heavily recruits Latinos and often crows about the number of Hispanics who graduate. I'm wondering if I really earned my degree or if I was just pushed through as part of some social justice AA program. I'd like to know and then deal with it appropriately. If there's affirmative action in school but not in the workplace, that's a real problem when the beneficiaries of AA get into the job market and suddenly find they can't get a good job because the standards were lowered for them in college.
@danteswart What's interesting to me is that women talk about equality, but when pieces of female privilege are broken down, they scream bloody murder. In Britain they have recently done away with insurance pricing based on gender after a ruling by the European Court of Justice. What is going to happen is that young men's premiums will fall by about 10% and young women's premiums will rise about 30%.
I happen to agree with statistical discrimination. If the statistics show that the average women is a safer driver, then they should reap the benefits of their behavior. But this is the face of equality without reason. It's coming for you.
@Warlord_Irochi @Dragdar You should probably listen to what young white men have to say. They didn't create the patriarchy nor did they benefit from it, yet they are being blamed for it. It will instill bitter resentment in them and there will be mental health problems down the line.
@Feyweather @zico_mahilary You may get trash talked like everyone else. If you are in a place with relaxed manners that is filled with men, the insults will fly and be based on differences, innate or not. These spaces for men will always exist but they are being pushed further and further underground.
@Murtarg777 Sexism is the belief that one gender is superior to the other. Not so, but it certainly does not discount that the two genders are different in many ways.
If the definition of sexism is that men and women generally are different, then I am a sexist.
It is uncontroversial to say that men are more suitable for professions that require physical strength. Coal mining, firefighting, lumberjack.
When you get into white-collar work, it becomes more controversial to talk about preferences and suitability. Some would say that women are more suitable for people-orientated careers, and this would explain why they are more likely to go into psychology than men.
This is not to say that a woman would not thrive in video games or a man would not thrive in psychology. One mistake people often make is getting offended at generalities. That there are exceptions to every rule is implied, but this does not disprove the rule.
I saw that the vast majority of workplace injuries accrue to men. I never thought that this is something that had to be "fixed" in the context of gender equality. Few do. Because how would you actually fix it? Require that more women cut down trees? Require that more women go capture crab? These are male problems to be solved by men. This is the same way I feel about other disparities in life.
@TheHappyDrunk What is off? What is wrong? What is the problem that needs to be fixed?
I saw many female students in accounting but much fewer in economics. I had one graduate level economics class of 12 that was entirely male. Most PhDs awarded in economics go to men.
When I took my core lower division accounting courses it was mostly female. Women are 61% of all accountants and auditors in the United States. This is not a bullshit profession. It is a proud profession with very good lifetime earning potential.
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