Re:Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate
by skrebbel on Friday December 02, 2011 @02:50AM
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I think I like your comment, but I'm not sure because I didn't understand it. Could you (honest request), maybe try to rephrase it in a way that non-English-language-PhDs can also follow?
Like, what is "supposedly immutable male sexual dynamics"? I understand immutable data, but not immutable dynamics.
Re:Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate
by philwelch on Friday December 02, 2011 @03:29AM
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"Immutable dynamics" is an oxymoron, isn't it?
Re:Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate
by praptak on Friday December 02, 2011 @04:58AM
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Nope, just a shorthand for "dynamics with immutable parameters". Parameters of a dynamic process might be immutable, no contradiction here.
Re:Don't Just Ask: Why Women Don't Negotiate
by JonnieCache on Friday December 02, 2011 @06:34AM
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I agree with you, but I also think that there may be a case that male sexual (and more general) cognition/behaviour actually is less mutable than that of women, and that this might actually be one of the key gender differences. A meta-difference if you will.
Not saying that this is true, just that I am willing to entertain the possibility.
Interesting to see how many comments cite supposedly immutable male sexual dynamics as the cause of this phenomenon - like being unable to respond non-erotically to an assertive woman, or even to a woman who is simply friendly at work.
I don't actually see any reason to assume it runs one way. The (male) song "I didn't mean to turn you on" comes to mind.
Could you ever imagine a woman's sexuality being invoked as a matter-of-fact justification for a workplace dynamic? Not by a man saying a woman's wonton behavior made him act aggressively, but as a result of actual female sexual agency? That is a telling cultural observation.