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Re:Why Don’t More Men Pursue Female-Dominated Professions? by mildtrepidation on Monday October 07, 2013 @12:10PM (#6509176)
All the absolutes in here make it very hard to get on board. Americans are not Marxist automatons any more than American culture is something so well-defined that you can reason about it reliably with generalizations like this.

I'm not a cultural anthropologist, so I'm not going to bother suggesting this Marxist origin theory is wrong or even not a large contributor, but I will certainly point out that you're reducing something very large and very complex involving a whole lot of vastly different people with different motivations, backgrounds, and goals to a simple, homogeneous, no-moving-parts summary that's so burdened with subjective assumptions as to be unsupportable.

Re:Why Don’t More Men Pursue Female-Dominated Professions? by spindritf on Monday October 07, 2013 @12:11PM (#6509185)
The point is not whether it's wrong. The point is that a particular perspective dominates. And observation does seem to confirm that.

Also, when did simplification become a bad word? Simplification is great. Half of (university) physics is just a collection of really clever simplifications.