Random dull video about nothing very much

[SpontaneousOrder]

Not if the experiments were in my living accommodation with the full consent and participation of the others that also lived there.

Sexism is always sexism, regardless of your current location and company. Just as racism is always racism - even if I'm in my own home in the company of my racist friends.

I take back the bit about learning.

[SpontaneousOrder]

I find it interesting you refuse consistently to answer Mudskipper's question and then try to shut her down.

It's interesting that you completely ignore Mudskippers' repeated & deliberate misrepresentations (or outright lies), yet have the wherewithal to spot this curiosity.

Mudskipper can have an answer if she asks a meaningful question. Of course I won't be distracted by her straw man (you can google straw man if you don't know what that means).

She said that Matt Taylor should have apologised for the shirt he wore, yet won't talk about the topic at hand. Instead when I call her out on her hypocrisy she becomes evasive and either invents something new that I've supposed to have said, or invents some fluffy tautology as a 'get out of jail free' card.

[SpontaneousOrder]

This is off topic for the last few pages, but relates to the original few posts:

Recent tweet:

"There is no such thing as sexism against men" - the woman I got banned for calling a scumbag.

https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/533445611543363585




Might add some context to the original few posts.

[mudskipper]

You are right:

Engineering Is a Man’s Field: Changing a Stereotype with a Lesson from India | Guest Blog, Scientific American Blog Network

Maybe this is one of those problems that enforces itself. Few females want to be engineers simply because there are few female engineers, ie they don't want to be sat in a class surrounded by a lot of randy young males with no other girls to talk to or make friends with.

Isn't it simply a repeating pattern - women don't want to enter a male dominated world, so it remains a male-dominated world?

So, making the assumption that it's desirable to try and change that situation, what sort of things do you think could change the perception of STEM subjects being for boys? And/or what sort of things might reinforce the stereotype and put girls off, and can they be avoided/changed? Should change come from the industries, or do the girls need to man up and get over it? Or is there nothing wrong with the status quo?

[NotAllThere]

As an aside, the kingdom of Jordan (I think it was - could have been the Lebanon), ordered Raspberry Pis for all girls at secondary school. I've no particular issue with positive discrimination where women are truly at a disadvantage - whether in the middle east or in the UK or anywhere.

Shouldn't girls woman up, rather than man up?

[mudskipper]

Shouldn't girls woman up, rather than man up?

That was rather my point.

[SpontaneousOrder]

As an aside, the kingdom of Jordan (I think it was - could have been the Lebanon), ordered Raspberry Pis for all girls at secondary school. I've no particular issue with positive discrimination where women are truly at a disadvantage - whether in the middle east or in the UK or anywhere.

Shouldn't girls woman up, rather than man up?

You missed #HeForShe

[SueEllen]

Might add some context to the original few posts.

What you on about?

[SpontaneousOrder]

What you on about?

If you don't know then it doesn't really matter. It's Anita Sarkeesian who is apparently a mod on here.

[NotAllThere]

What you on about?

He's still whining about being banned by Cojak for promoting misogyny. The reason he continues to carp on about it is because he can't see it himself. If he keeps it up, I might ban him myself, on "Jim Moriarty" grounds.