rm ([personal profile] rm) wrote2009-03-31 10:26 am

"scarce" resources, college and sexism

And then there's this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23britz.html

It's the sort of thing that makes it hard for me to imagine any world in which women, at least as a group, don't always lose.

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[identity profile] rackmount.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
this was exactly why i posted it.

FIRST prove you're 10 times better to prove that you're anywhere near as good as men.

SECOND prove you're 10 times better because god forbid the guys should fall behind.

wth? or, as i said, damned if you do, damned if you don't. i mean jesus. there are lots of places i considered applying that were man-only until the 60s/70s.