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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I'd hope that the courts would allow same-sex schools from K through 12 as options for public schools systems
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Same sex schools are a cop out. It just reinforces the idea that women are too weak to compete.
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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
and then I'd hope that school systems would open up hard core math/science/techonogy schools for little girls and young women.
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Why? Why can't the women go take the hard core subjects at coed schools? I did and graduated at the top of my class.
Women shunned these hard core classes. I often found myself one of a handful of women in the math and physics classes I took. No one forced women to choose art history or communications over physics. They chose that themselves.
The reasons they chose that is because for some, they don't want to look smarter than the guys because this is scary to men. I have scared away several men because of my intelligence. Yes, I agree, good riddance, but after it happens often enough, you see why women might want to shun the hardcore subjects because of how scary that is to men to be with a woman who is smarter than they are.
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Other than education (which suffers from legacy discriminatory societal attitudes), I don't believe women really are subject to much discrimination in comparison to just about any other group.
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Just the opposite is true. Academia is the most egalitarian it gets. The business world is where things are so uneven. I have seen women promoted specifically because they were dumb women and the goal was to make an example out of a stupid women. Then they could say how they tried to promote the women but look what happened when we did!
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But look around these boards and you'll see the effects that educational discrimination has had on women. All the chicks give themselves names like Bambi and post on the fashion board about how to give a better blow job. And, it seems, *some* people trust, e.g., uncy Atticus, to do the hard thinking.
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It isn't educational discrimination that is to blame (although it is discrimination of another sort). At least in my exerience, I was the least discriminated against in academia.
Look at what happens when you do have an opinionated bright woman post on a board. You all call her a man. And if you were to believe I was female, you would immediately conclude I must be an ugly woman to spend time posting here. You would assume that if I would choose to talk politics over say, hanging out with my boyfriend or going shopping, it must be because I have no other choice since I must be ugly. That theme has been expounded upon here numerous times.
