Sexism you have personally experienced or have heard of? *READ POST 1*

Kimsang wrote: »

It could be a directive of the HR department. Its all about quotas these days, in Iceland companies have to prove gender pay equality, which has led to similar events of men being sent home earlier.

I remember reading recently UL announced female only professorships, because only 25% of professors were female. Funny that 25% of candidates that stand for election are female, and 25% of the cabinet are women.

Here's a piece on Sky News' The Pledge in which Greg Dyke former BBC director describes the time he made the BBC more diverse because it was 'hideously white' - by setting up kangaroo courts.

Something similar is happening in the name of gender equity. Funny how in more egalitarian countries we see more sexual dimophism.

The only places where you see "equality" is in China and the old Soviet States...where women work side by side with men across the workforce...they don't seem to have the same problems as we do over here...apart from highly unstable economies and poverty, no press freedom, questionable elections that is!

Kimsang wrote: »

It could be a directive of the HR department. Its all about quotas these days, in Iceland companies have to prove gender pay equality, which has led to similar events of men being sent home earlier.

I remember reading recently UL announced female only professorships, because only 25% of professors were female. Funny that 25% of candidates that stand for election are female, and 25% of the cabinet are women.

Here's a piece on Sky News' The Pledge in which Greg Dyke former BBC director describes the time he made the BBC more diverse because it was 'hideously white' - by setting up kangaroo courts.

Something similar is happening in the name of gender equity. Funny how in more egalitarian countries we see more sexual dimophism.

No I checked and it's not a directive. It's something this person does alone.

I believe the article is from the UK and they just reused it for the examiner. Horrendous advice from a agony aunt.

if that artical was from a man that wrote in saying he knocked up his ex girlfriends and was wondering should he tell his fiance, the advice would be to tell her and be all about how he should have resected his fiance and how horrible he is ( and rightly so) . its a huge double standard

iptba wrote: »

https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2019/0310/1035494-gender-quotas/

While some might argue that this is not full discrimination, it could have this effect for some individuals who wish to stand

I'd say it could be challenged by independents.

ligerdub wrote: »

Not exactly an extreme case but RTE providing us with yet another example, this week via the Claire Byrne show.

Apparently there is now going to be a National Day of Free Self Defence classes for women. This was an initiative by a woman who was violently attacked by a stranger. This was a noble endeavour on her behalf no doubt, but the narrative around this was that women are more likely to be victims of violence and at one point Byrne asked if perhaps there should be some lessons for men.........not to attack women! How bout no Claire?!

What about the plethora of men who are attacked without provocation, of which there was still a huge number of people, more than women I understand. Why isn't there a drive or national recognition for men to have a day for free self defence classes? As always the victims are always framed in terms of one gender only.

The joke is the self defense classes will probably lull allot of women into a false sense of security.

Any class they did have for men, well do you think the animals that are abusers will really give a ****.

not looking to Hollywood to right the ship but as there is slim pickings

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Pawwed Rig wrote: »

So some had been castrated but that is OK?

The politics are a fair bit more complex than that fluffy article makes out alright -


Hijra used to be translated in English as "eunuch" or "hermaphrodite", although LGBT historians or human rights activists have sought to include them as being transgender. In a series of meetings convened between October 2013 and Jan 2014 by the transgender experts committee of India's Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, hijra and other trans activists asked that the term "eunuch" be discontinued from usage in government documents, as it is not a term with which the communities identify.


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Kimsang wrote: »

Yes according to modern feminism this is precisely ok.

Feckall to do with modern feminism.

https://twitter.com/BenHowe/status/1136082671396884480

My daughter has autism, it would not end well for teacher that handed this out.

The worst part is that this made the news only because the unfortunate kid happens to be autistic; Nobody seems to have an issue with the fact the prize was for the "Most Annoying MALE". I can't find information if there was also a "Most Annoying FEMALE" prize; It's difficult to find more accurate articles, especially seeing as many minor US news websites are currently freaking out about GDSP and simply putting a "no can't do" blocker for European visitors.

If the prize was just for the "most annoying MALE", well the fact the boy has his share of problems doesn't even factory in - this is a TEACHER, an educator that is supposed to be fair and evaluate students based on their study efforts and results; Someone which holds such a bias to go to the trouble of organizing the whole shenanigan should never be allowed in the field again.

Calhoun wrote: »

It is crap that it's being ignore but hopefully something like this will make them think twice .

I don't know any school that would have got away with this in my day.

About the last part...probably they wouldn't have gotten away with something as stupid as a "most annoying" prize; However I remember clearly how during my school days, different policies were in place everywhere for boys and girls.

From primary school (circa 1986) to the day I finished school (whereabouts 1999), there were always different rules, where girls were trusted to "do the right thing" and boys would have various kinds of boundaries enforced on us.

For example, girls were allowed to go for toilette breaks in groups of 2 or even 3, often disappearing for the whole lesson (especially in the senior years), while boys were only allowed out of the class one at a time, and after 2-3 minutes, you could rest assured the teacher would send one of the janitors knocking on the stall door. Pretty embarrassing if you were having one of these "shouldn't have eaten that spicy salami last night" moments .

During secondary school there were entire areas of the building (e.g. labs and wherever there was something valuable), where boys weren't allowed unless escorted by a member of the staff, while girls could come and go as they pleased.

The justification? But obviously that boys are "messy", "unruly", "misbehaved"; They break things, they steal, they lie, they make noise; All of this said without a problem, seriously, straight to your face. Girls, on the other hand, were always trustworthy and well behaved...

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0610/1054532-the-issues-with-how-the-irish-media-represent-domestic-violence/

Article entitled: The issues with how the Irish media represent domestic violence

Subheading: Analysis: How the media shapes the national understanding of domestic violence really matters, but unfortunately, it often tend to give audiences and readers simplistic, inadequate and distorted representations.

Article: only talks about domestic abuse being perpetrated on women by men.

A worthy topic, but ironically commits the sins she talks about. Not surprisingly, nowhere for the public to comment.

A Dutch university will only appoint female academic staff for at least the next 18 months to improve its gender balance. In what it calls a “bold” move, Eindhoven University of Technology has introduced a new program, the Irène Curie Fellowship — named after celebrated scientist Marie Curie’s daughter — to only appoint female professors, associate and assistant professors.

Just saw that on linkedin. That seems fairly shocking.

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Just saw that on linkedin. That seems fairly shocking.

A Dutch university will only appoint female academic staff for at least the next 18 months to improve its gender balance. In what it calls a “bold” move, Eindhoven University of Technology has introduced a new program, the Irène Curie Fellowship — named after celebrated scientist Marie Curie’s daughter — to only appoint female professors, associate and assistant professors. The university has the Netherlands’ lowest proportion of women in its academic workforce with 16% of full professors, 15% of associate professors and 29% assistant professors. •

I've looked into this a bit more and have seen it described as an engineering university. They seem to be ignoring the fact that engineering has one of the lowest proportions of female undergraduates and the like.