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Originally Posted by Strive4health
Lately it's been making me SO angry when people want to deny sexism in the workplace. Why won't people admit it's real and it does happen?
I've had interviews on the phone, and in person where the interviewer (a man) made it obvious through his body language or vocal tone that he viewed me as inferior. I've been treated like a "stupid girl" before, and when I share this with others it gets dismissed as a hallucination. I am NOT hallucinating!
I saw this when I worked in a female-dominated field before. I used to work in direct care with children and adults and saw how men were treated. Some of them were even treated like they were potential sexual molesters  with less respect than their female counterparts. I have even talked to men who wanted to go into nursing or teaching younger children but decided against it despite a strong interest and talent for it. They said "I don't feel like being treated differently." Of course, who wants to be simply because they are a man or a woman?
This just makes me SO MAD! If a person has the ability, drive, motivation, and work ethic to make their company look good, who cares if they are a man or a woman? Why does it matter in an interview if they are a man or a woman if the meet/or exceed the qualifications? Grrr!! |
Well I'm sorry to say it, but the majority of sexual abuse against children is perpetrated by men. So of course, it's human nature that people will be a little more cautious leaving their children alone with a man even though the vast majority of men would never dream in harming a child.
There are differences between the sexes. Part of the reason men are more assertive and negotiate higher wages is testosterone, having lot's more of it helps with this and many woman simply rather then asking, just keep quiet and complain in a passive aggressive way.
This idea of man and woman being 100% equal is just ridiculous though. We're a sexually dimorphic species and people need to remember that. The irony about feminism is that it was created by men, so all you feminists are still really being told what to do by a man.