Women Rule and Men Drool..... Says CNN.
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I can completely understand that view Pat, however, our entire Quality Control department are women, the entire Book-Keeping staff are women, the foreign exchange department has one male out of 20 and all these departments never see/speak to customers. Much like Adam says, the majority of the entire company are women.
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makare
I always figured the computer was a chick because an omnipresent dude voice could get creepy quick. Not really but it would be funny to make it creepy hehe.
Computer? .. yesssss captain, nice pajamas.
Computer? .. yesssss captain, nice pajamas.
So, not very?
I also missed it. I was so curious!
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Wait..that's all he said?
LAME.
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Biannoshufu
what and miss my chance to tantrum? Are you NEW to the Internet?
"Mod-community"? It seems like there is a more appropriate word for a group of mods. Mod gang? No, that's not it. Mod team? Nah. Mod pod? Not that one either.LOL, nah, it was just stupid. In case he decided to hang around though I figured I'd let him/her know just how welcome that kind of stuff is by the mod-community.
Dammit, I can almost put my finger on it...
A murder of mods.
Necronic
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I think the most damning factor about men represented in that walking abortion of an article is the fact that it was written by one. The only evidence given in the article for anything is :
1) More older dudes play video games than younger dudes. Which could easily be countered by the fact that more women are playing video games than before. Maybe women are doing worse!
2) The Hanna Rosin article, which.....I haven't made up my mind about it.
Basically this dude just repeats the hanna rosin thing. WHOOPEEE.
Also men are better than women because.
BECAUSE.
1) More older dudes play video games than younger dudes. Which could easily be countered by the fact that more women are playing video games than before. Maybe women are doing worse!
2) The Hanna Rosin article, which.....I haven't made up my mind about it.
Basically this dude just repeats the hanna rosin thing. WHOOPEEE.
Also men are better than women because.
BECAUSE.
Necronic
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I'm going to retract my comment, more or less, but I still disagree with the conclusions of the article and the general tone being set in here.
Any comparison to "the good old days when men were men" is facile. Men actually have it much harder today than they did before. There is more competition for jobs thanks to Civil Right's movement (which I totally am cool with by the way". Just being a white married man is not enough to get a high paying job. You need a college education, and you need it in the right field. Ward Cleaver majored in Philosophy, for instance. In todays world that would mean that Beaver would be lucky to have a christmas at all.
Blue Collar, the 50s alternative job for men, is another name for unemployed these days. When people talk about the increasing unemployment for men it is almost entirely attributed to the recession's accute impact on and the general decline of the blue collar workforce.
So what about the idea that women are getting more degrees than men? This may be true, but lets break it down a bit because, as the 99% are finding out, not all degrees are created equal.
The single best college degrees out there are in engineering. And women only account for 20% of those degree seekers. This number is slowly growing but by the time it becomes significant the american economy will already have exploded.
In the pure natural sciences they are doing better, but you are still only seeing 30% or so, not exactly a dominance. And, interestingly, most are in biological or social/psychological sciences, which (sorry to offend anyone here with one of those degrees) are not particularly valuable without a graduate degree.
What about computers, another strong field? Well, this is by far the worst, with only 15% of graduates being women.
So there you have three of the best degrees out there for hirability, salary, and job stability, and women are a laughably small proportion of it.
There are also other sides to this of course. Two other incredibly valuable degrees, medicine and law, are equally represented by both men and women, and nursing, one of the best careers out there for pay/job stability, is so insanely dominated by women (94.6%) that the idea of a male nurse is still kind of funny. But that's mainly because it makes me think of Meet the Parents.
This isn't meant to be a dig at women, it's meant to be looking at the real picture. A picture where men are still dominating the technical fields, a picture where, without men, the fields that keep america running would crash and burn.
So, even if you figure out a way to procreate without us, you still need us for science/math. Unless you can, as a gender, man up and learn to do it yourselves.
Any comparison to "the good old days when men were men" is facile. Men actually have it much harder today than they did before. There is more competition for jobs thanks to Civil Right's movement (which I totally am cool with by the way". Just being a white married man is not enough to get a high paying job. You need a college education, and you need it in the right field. Ward Cleaver majored in Philosophy, for instance. In todays world that would mean that Beaver would be lucky to have a christmas at all.
Blue Collar, the 50s alternative job for men, is another name for unemployed these days. When people talk about the increasing unemployment for men it is almost entirely attributed to the recession's accute impact on and the general decline of the blue collar workforce.
So what about the idea that women are getting more degrees than men? This may be true, but lets break it down a bit because, as the 99% are finding out, not all degrees are created equal.
The single best college degrees out there are in engineering. And women only account for 20% of those degree seekers. This number is slowly growing but by the time it becomes significant the american economy will already have exploded.
In the pure natural sciences they are doing better, but you are still only seeing 30% or so, not exactly a dominance. And, interestingly, most are in biological or social/psychological sciences, which (sorry to offend anyone here with one of those degrees) are not particularly valuable without a graduate degree.
What about computers, another strong field? Well, this is by far the worst, with only 15% of graduates being women.
So there you have three of the best degrees out there for hirability, salary, and job stability, and women are a laughably small proportion of it.
There are also other sides to this of course. Two other incredibly valuable degrees, medicine and law, are equally represented by both men and women, and nursing, one of the best careers out there for pay/job stability, is so insanely dominated by women (94.6%) that the idea of a male nurse is still kind of funny. But that's mainly because it makes me think of Meet the Parents.
This isn't meant to be a dig at women, it's meant to be looking at the real picture. A picture where men are still dominating the technical fields, a picture where, without men, the fields that keep america running would crash and burn.
So, even if you figure out a way to procreate without us, you still need us for science/math. Unless you can, as a gender, man up and learn to do it yourselves.
BananaHands
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Yeah sure, that is why they all married for money, except Franklin... who did not marry.
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