[Variety] Disney's Boy Trouble: Corp seeking ways to win back young men

[EricHiggin]

the-pi-guy said:

EricHiggin said:

There's another clip I can't find from him (maybe he was on someone else's podcast at the time) where Jordan talks about studies where they take very young infants, young enough that they can't be trained or really have any bias yet, and are put in a room with boys and girls toys and they simply watch to see who picks what, trying different variations of this with different locations and toys and toy placements. It was something very high, like 95% of the time, the boys picked the boy toys and the girls picked the girl toys.

Knowing these things, it's not hard to see why men pick certain roles and why woman pick others, and also why we as a society tend to prefer men and woman in certain roles. There are things that men and woman tend to be more interested in or better at, and we as a society like to be catered to with as much ease as is possible.

It's why as to the housework/chores point, society see's that as more of a woman's role. While "stuff" or "things" have to be done in order to accomplish housework, the men aren't as interested and don't really care about the end result so much which is people. Where as the woman cares much more about the people who will benefit from the chores, which is why the housework they do tends to be done much better and is more appreciated. Same reason why you probably want a female or gay male interior decorator. Hiring a straight man would more likely leave your house feeling empty and dull.

None of this is to say however, that men or woman have to do certain things. Everyone has a choice for the most part, as to what you want to do, who you want to hire, or simply how to divvy up tasks.

I think it's kind of oversimplistic to assume that this is why. 

Even if we 100% assume that it's true that women and men generally prefer different things, that doesn't mean that other things correlate that way. 

If we assume that women tend to prefer socializing, and men prefer computer work. That doesn't mean that those correlations carry to jobs, because a lot of jobs require both. 

Men and women might tend to prefer different aspects of something, but that doesn't necessarily mean that women/men overall likes that something more than the other.  

Computer jobs used to be considered women's work, and it was dominated by women. It was considered secretarial work. At some point that changed, and it's not so much because the job changed or that people changed, but because the culture changed. There was a different perspective on it. 

You didn't watch the video's did you? How does men and woman being more the same on average, and differing in the extreme's, mean that men and woman generally prefer different things? It means on average they're similar, but when it comes to certain things, men and woman are very different.

Like when it comes to building a skyscraper let's say. Most male engineers won't give a crap about how the building looks aesthetically, or how well the spaces inside are laid out. All they really care about is building a thin and super tall structure that won't fall over or collapse. That's it, because it's overcoming a challenge that they find wicked cool. Now the engineering firm is forced to have some people who need to make sure it looks good enough and is well laid out so consumers will like it and will buy into it, but that's a 'because we have to reason, not because we want to'. That's where you would want female or lgbt engineers who are going to care much more so about that and will do a far better job than most straight men would.

Why are people so worried about the natural Earth as it was? Why do they have such a problem with it being changed? Why do some people, see people, as a cancer that's destroying the planet because we're changing it? Why do they want the Earth left alone to be as natural as it once was, for us to learn to live with it as it's supposed to be, yet those same type of people, seem to think seeing people like men and woman, as naturally a certain way, is unacceptable? 

What part of being a secretary correlates to computing? Did the role of secretary not become a position until after computers were invented?