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Re:Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer” by refurb on Thursday September 08, 2016 @09:32PM (#12459060)
Of your three examples, I can think of many woman who wouldn't care about the first two at all. They throw around bitch, slut, whore without concern and they aren't having kids so they don't care about the maternity leave.

Those first two seem more like your personal preferences than something universally despised by women.

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Re:Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer” by morgtheborg on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:26PM (#12459470)
Your argument is that it would "stressful and hostile to everyone equally" to casually use sexist language or not provide maternity leave?

I'm not suggesting an "all women" situation here, but I am claiming all three examples would be significantly more stressful and hostile to the average woman than the average man.

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Re:Introducing “Ask a Female Engineer” by flukus on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:38PM (#12459501)
> I'm not suggesting an "all women" situation here, but I am claiming all three examples would be significantly more stressful and hostile to the average woman than the average man.

So you're saying women need to be treated differently? Sounds a bit sexist.

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