Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men.

Re:Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. by jacquesm on Monday August 30, 2010 @02:06AM (#1645525)

Funny, see, if we really had this gender equality nobody would think twice of it, after all the women are equally capable at combat right?

But we've never seen 'setting up hundreds of your men to be slaughtered by your enemies' as a ridiculous strategy.

They're both ridiculous strategies, and yet we routinely deploy the one and are horrified at the other.

The 'children' bit is just a strawman, as are the 'buses' to use them as human shields. We're talking about prejudice here, and why just changing sex seems to have an effect over and beyond the competence angle.

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Re:Too Few Women In Tech? Stop Blaming The Men. by ErrantX on Monday August 30, 2010 @07:13AM (#1645896)

It's just ingrained primitive instinct; and quite simple psychology really. The social "cost" of a Mans death is much much lower than a Womans.

Loss of 80% of the male population could be recovered fairly quickly, but loss of 80% of the females would be devastating for generations.

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