Stephen Hawking and women

[pjthompson]

Yeah, when you take them for granted, work them into the ground, then announce you have fallen in love with your nurse they get mad and dump your butt to the curb. Big mystery there. But I’m sure all your male colleagues laughed in smugly when you made that remark. You probably don’t have any women “colleagues.”

Sexism is a lot like rust. It never sleeps.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[frigg.livejournal.com]

I am sick and tired of the whole gender debate, and it was depressing to read all those hateful comments to the article. So many people hate me, the person, because I happen to be female?

There should not even be a reason for a gender, etnicity, religion and sexual orientation debate, equality and respect for the individual should be the obvious conclusion. We are all human, why is this so difficult to realise for some?

...and as for women being difficult to understand. Well, apart from the biological aspect, which I believe explains just a fraction of the misunderstandings between the genders, then we are all a product of our environment, and women in most of the world grow up in a different environment than men, despite them being in the exact same location.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I routinely avoid the comments on these arguments because they are always so very hateful. These things bring out the worst people and the worst in people.

And yeah, what you said. Men and women are socialized very differently and I agree that accounts for many or most of the misunderstandings. It's amazing that even intelligent people often fail to perceive this basic fact.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

OMG, those comments!

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I routinely avoid those. They always bring out the hateful and the stupid.