People who are not white males have suffered oppression. We still suffer oppression. Every day, there are alpha males of all sorts trying to keep us in our place. Not just scary, but intolerable, and that’s why we’ve been fighting so hard for equal rights for the last century or so.
I don’t know why you can’t see that this exists, everyday, for the majority of the USA’s population.
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If they didn’t the structure of society would have changed to be more egalitarian.
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All I can think is that @Al_Estok and others here just don’t want to see it, or believe it’s true, because they believe it says something bad about them.
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Oh, ok, so even though it took a full 72 years for women to get the vote, in the last 100 years, 50 of which women have had a modicum of reproductive autonomy, everyone has been able to reverse the conditioning of thousands of years and see women as equal to men.
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Translation, he just doesn’t believe women.
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My high school had a program where students would build and maintain a drag racing car that they could then race at the local track (all supervised, in legal, sanctioned races, and only with parental approval). An interesting discovery was made when they opened it up to girls.
The girls were better. They paid more attention and focused on the details. Their times on the track were just as good and sometimes better, because while guys focussed on beating the other guy, girls aimed at beating their best time.
But they also saw how few women were in the crews and behind the wheel. They quickly figured out that there was no future in it for a girl, because almost nowhere would be willing to hire them on and help them get necessary experience, not with five guys competing for that same position.
These girls were smart and practical. They weren’t going to waste their money and time on a post-secondary education that would leave them broke and unemployed. So they didn’t continue after graduation in most cases.
The gap exists due to the culture of the job and hiring. Girls don’t need role models so much as they need to see that they’ll have a chance, and to know that when they get that chance that the culture won’t be toxic. The stereotype of the mechanic with his desk full of porn and car-girl calendar exists for a reason. I will bet good money that has far more to do with girls* avoiding that field than any innate ability.
*we get pushed towards our initial career choices earlier than even college. By the time they’re women, the cultural programming is already pretty well running.
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Last winter when our shop slowed down, I decided to clean out the industrial fab area including the work desk. Opened up the bottom left drawer and found a softcore calendar from 2014. And all I could think was: it’s simply not enough to just keep that stuff on your phone, guys, is it? Gotta wave that straight pride machismo flag wherever you go, don’t you?
Females looking for a career, please, consider the trades. We need you.
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fortunately we have not yet figured out how to pay people to do that (unless you count politicians with twitter access in the first category and military/CIA officials/government hired mercenaries/etc in the second?)
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