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Torillian on 03 September 2025
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EricHiggin said:
the-pi-guy said:

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?

This is a fun hypothetical but do you have anything to back up the idea? Because I looked up the gender ratio of architects (the people that would be the most interested in aesthetics of a building) and women make up 27% of them while making up 17% of civil engineers. A measurable difference but nothing that makes me think that civil engineering is the domain of dudes while the aesthetics of buildings is ladies' work. 

You can see them as being "naturally a certain way" but when it comes to prescriptions I want everyone to do what they like regardless of societal pressure. If you want to be a house wife or house husband, yay, if you want to work as an engineer also fine. 



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