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[–]TroonsAreGroomers[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The answer to most of this is that men and women are different. If women want to work in dirty and physically demanding jobs, or in STEM fields, then I wish them all the best and I am sure there are some who are great at what they do. It doesn't change the fact those are outliers and the vast majority of women will choose not to work those roles. The great push from feminists to get women into the workplace only really happened once society had progressed to the point a lot of people could get paid by sitting in air-conditioned offices.

There is a bell curve. Men tend to fall into the category of relatively smart or relatively dumb while women tend to cluster around the mean. This means there are more men with low brainpower (and higher muscle mass than women) who are more suited to physical work. It also means there are more men in STEM fields.

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I agree.

On the other hand, there are still a lot of fields where men are vastly underrepresented (like pink collar jobs) but no one gives a rat's ass about it. Even when it is quite obvious that this has serious implications for the next generation.

Men and women in a mean average are different, and that is why all those pointless fights for virtual privileges are mostly red herrings. When most women don't choose these fields anyway.

At these "Girls In Science"-fairs, I'm always like Skipper from "Penguins Of Madagascar" : "Smile and wave, fellas. Just smile and wave. And look fluffy.".

There are sorts of the bull shittiest things in existence. When you see some overly entitled teacher trying to "force" young girls into asking questions about things they just don't have any passion for whatsoever.