No it's reversing the social history too. Why would the scenarios in the story have ever come up if the social history hadn't been reversed?
tl;dr whoosh
It's also reversing the gender biology. And that's a problem.
I'm kinda hoping this is a joke, but I'm also guessing not.
The point is you would feel as helpless and frustrated as women do now if the tables were turned and the entire social structure was set up so as to belittle you and give you little recourse to respond.
Also men and women are very similar in terms of values and attitudes towards sex regardless of the prevailing popular myths.
Re:Men In Tech
by NotMyMorals on Saturday May 12, 2012 @01:10PM
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>Also men and women are very similar in terms of values and attitudes towards sex regardless of the prevailing popular myths.
In the sense they both expect different values and attitudes towards sex from men and women.
Keep your religion-derived asexual "men and women are the same" nonsense to your church or feminist club.
Re:Men In Tech
by KaoruAoiShiho on Saturday May 12, 2012 @01:57AM
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>prevailing popular myths
Lovely arrogance.
Please look up Terri D. Conley and Sexual Strategies Theory.
I have to disagree. It's actually pretty trivial to create a situation that puts men at the same disadvantage, and it happens all the time in other industries. Heck I saw it really happen when it was supposed to be a joke.
That's basically a completely false premise.
Because of biological facts and the resultant social history, men and women have completely different values and attitudes to sex. As such this story seems pretty unrealistic to me.
That's not to say that patriarchy doesn't suck and that women doesn't face a lot of adversity in tech and so on.