Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
by hnthrowaway4819 on Thursday February 11, 2016 @06:18PM
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Men-as-homogeneous-group fallacy. Given a high variance, it's entirely possible that the top [small-percentage]% of men hold presidencies, CEO positions, etc, while the large majority of men are suffering a degradation in status, respect, resources, etc. (And objectively so -- look at earnings trends in inflation-adjusted terms for men vs. women over the past 40 years.) The way these two are conflated seems to be at the root of a lot of animosity in the Gender Wars lately.
I'd tend to agree with GP that while existing as a white male today is still "easy mode" in many ways when you do push yourself, there's definitely this feeling that society is celebrating everyone else while you're sort of left on your own without much encouragement.
Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
by jbpetersen on Friday February 12, 2016 @01:58AM
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It'd be interesting to see historical statistics on the variability of different "success" metrics with regard to sex.
Re:Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors
by andromeduck on Thursday February 11, 2016 @07:06PM
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I don't really agree with the sentiment but your example is also pretty poor rebuttal because those are some of the laggiest indicators.
Literally every president in US history has been a man, 80.6% of Congress are men, 95.5% of Fortune 500 CEOs are men, and you're sad that it's getting marginally harder for men and that the country is lacking in strong male leaders?