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There is a false assumption implied in this article: that the only way to a fulfilling life is having a successful career. During most of human history most of the people weren’t well educated and lead comfortable lives, but they were not living in despair and depression. We are richer than any time in history but have more people suffering from depression. The other often overlooked fact is that men and women are different and make different choices: This fact is unpalatable to feminists. They want every women and men conform to their worldview. You can see how vicious they are towards women who chose to stay at home to take care of kids. This is a kind of soft tyranny. Women, nowadays, have the same access as men to education and every other thing. They can become whatever they want. What else need to be done? Force every women to become scientists, engineers, and CEOs. And the other interesting thing about feminists is they are always cribbing about there being not enough women in STEM, top positions in Fortune 500 companies and politics, but they’re very silent about the near absence of women in border security force, bricklaying, drainage cleaning, and other dangerous occupations. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against women becoming scientists and CEOs. Give good quality education to everyone at school and inform everyone of the opportunities they have. Let them make a choice.
Dear Mr Antony,
All the women quoted in this article have already made a choice of being in STEM fields. They are not being forced. They are all doing great work and yet facing sexism.
Feminists don’t want anyone to be involved in drainage cleaning. It is not considered an empowering job for either men or women. So your comment does not make sense. Some feminists have been asking for women to be included in security forces so your knowledge in the matter is inadequate.
Dear Mr Roy,
First of all I wasn’t directly critiquing the what’s written in the article. I was arguing against the assumption implied in these kinds of articles. Please look at the first sentence. The whole argument is premised on that.
Here is my response to your reply:
“They are all doing great work and yet facing sexism.”
That’s what they are claiming. It can very well be the case that their research is not good enough. Have you heard of the Dunning-kruger effect? It’s silly to claim that every hurdles women face is because of sexism. The whole article is anecdotal and one-sided. Where are the statements of accusees?
Crying sexism for everything is silly. Many things have been put in place to make it easy for women to climb the ladder: quotas, scholarships. (I’m not against any of these things. Let’s make things easy for them). However, allotting quotas implies that women are inferior to men. That is sexism. It implies that women are not capable of competing with men, so we have to make some concessions.
I find it very hard to believe them because, if indeed they’ve been denied those opportunities due to sexism the male scientists would really have been in trouble. Feminists are vicious. You know what happened to Tim Hunt, a Nobel laureate for making an innocuous comment? He lost all his positions overnight. Lawrence summers had to step down as Harvard’s president for presenting scientific data as to why there’s a scarcity of women in sciences. If indeed these women had been discriminated because of their chromosomes, the Male scientists would have lost their job now. That’s how powerful and nasty feminists are nowadays. Even many women find feminism reprehensible.
Marie curie never seemed to have complained of sexism. She was good, so her research was recognized. During those times people thought that women cannot do science well, but that’s not the case now. Einstein was denied Nobel prize for ‘theory of relativity’ because of some men like Gullstrand. Greger mendel’s painstaking research was thrown in trash by other men. At the same time work done by Marie curie was celebrated. What does this all say? People can be nasty to each other regardless of sex. Few groups are nastier than third-wave feminists.
“Feminists don’t want anyone to be involved in drainage cleaning ”
There are feminists who wish openly the death of most men. Haven’t you seen books like “women are from venus, Men are from HELL?” Drainage cleaning is more empowering than being ‘unemployed’ or being an actress for instance, which is mostly visual prostitution (there are good decent movies, which are rare. A country that pledges “girls are sisters” is using girls for titillation. We should be ashamed of ourselves.)
“Some feminists have been asking for women to be included in security forces so your knowledge in the matter is inadequate.”
My point is this: feminists are very loud when it comes asking for quotas in parliament and other positions of power, but they’re not 1/100th as loud for quotas in army and other dangerous jobs. Feminists want power. But if you want to eliminate structural inequality, there should be equality across the board, which they are very not very interested in. (And I don’t know how many fathers would want to put their daughters in harm’s way or how many husbands, if they see hear some strange noise at night, would want their wives to go check 50% of the times. In my opinion women should not be sent to such dangerous jobs.)
What a terribly unfortunate attitude to have towards women scientists Yash Kansal. This is precisely the problem. Misogyny is so very firmly embedded in the minds of so many Indian men that a woman’s success HAS to be attributed to her incompetence, and nothing else. It’s so sad that we are still raising men like these
Actually I have worked as a research assistant in a premier science institute, and one problem I faced was the lack of a decent toilet. The key to the only toilet was in the admin office, but if I arrived early to beat traffic (which was often the case), I had to wait for the admin office to open.
Administrations are so inept at providing even basic facilities for women that and power structures so blind, quite frankly they don’t deserve the genius of women in this country.
There is a false assumption implied in this article: that the only way to a fulfilling life is having a successful career. During most of human history most of the people weren’t well educated and lead comfortable lives, but they were not living in despair and depression. We are richer than any time in history but have more people suffering from depression. The other often overlooked fact is that men and women are different and make different choices: This fact is unpalatable to feminists. They want every women and men conform to their worldview. You can see how vicious they are towards women who chose to stay at home to take care of kids. This is a kind of soft tyranny. Women, nowadays, have the same access as men to education and every other thing. They can become whatever they want. What else need to be done? Force every women to become scientists, engineers, and CEOs. And the other interesting thing about feminists is they are always cribbing about there being not enough women in STEM, top positions in Fortune 500 companies and politics, but they’re very silent about the near absence of women in border security force, bricklaying, drainage cleaning, and other dangerous occupations. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not against women becoming scientists and CEOs. Give good quality education to everyone at school and inform everyone of the opportunities they have. Let them make a choice.
Dear Mr Antony,
All the women quoted in this article have already made a choice of being in STEM fields. They are not being forced. They are all doing great work and yet facing sexism.
Feminists don’t want anyone to be involved in drainage cleaning. It is not considered an empowering job for either men or women. So your comment does not make sense. Some feminists have been asking for women to be included in security forces so your knowledge in the matter is inadequate.
Dear Mr Roy,
First of all I wasn’t directly critiquing the what’s written in the article. I was arguing against the assumption implied in these kinds of articles. Please look at the first sentence. The whole argument is premised on that.
Here is my response to your reply:
“They are all doing great work and yet facing sexism.”
That’s what they are claiming. It can very well be the case that their research is not good enough. Have you heard of the Dunning-kruger effect? It’s silly to claim that every hurdles women face is because of sexism. The whole article is anecdotal and one-sided. Where are the statements of accusees?
Crying sexism for everything is silly. Many things have been put in place to make it easy for women to climb the ladder: quotas, scholarships. (I’m not against any of these things. Let’s make things easy for them). However, allotting quotas implies that women are inferior to men. That is sexism. It implies that women are not capable of competing with men, so we have to make some concessions.
I find it very hard to believe them because, if indeed they’ve been denied those opportunities due to sexism the male scientists would really have been in trouble. Feminists are vicious. You know what happened to Tim Hunt, a Nobel laureate for making an innocuous comment? He lost all his positions overnight. Lawrence summers had to step down as Harvard’s president for presenting scientific data as to why there’s a scarcity of women in sciences. If indeed these women had been discriminated because of their chromosomes, the Male scientists would have lost their job now. That’s how powerful and nasty feminists are nowadays. Even many women find feminism reprehensible.
Marie curie never seemed to have complained of sexism. She was good, so her research was recognized. During those times people thought that women cannot do science well, but that’s not the case now. Einstein was denied Nobel prize for ‘theory of relativity’ because of some men like Gullstrand. Greger mendel’s painstaking research was thrown in trash by other men. At the same time work done by Marie curie was celebrated. What does this all say? People can be nasty to each other regardless of sex. Few groups are nastier than third-wave feminists.
“Feminists don’t want anyone to be involved in drainage cleaning ”
There are feminists who wish openly the death of most men. Haven’t you seen books like “women are from venus, Men are from HELL?” Drainage cleaning is more empowering than being ‘unemployed’ or being an actress for instance, which is mostly visual prostitution (there are good decent movies, which are rare. A country that pledges “girls are sisters” is using girls for titillation. We should be ashamed of ourselves.)
“Some feminists have been asking for women to be included in security forces so your knowledge in the matter is inadequate.”
My point is this: feminists are very loud when it comes asking for quotas in parliament and other positions of power, but they’re not 1/100th as loud for quotas in army and other dangerous jobs. Feminists want power. But if you want to eliminate structural inequality, there should be equality across the board, which they are very not very interested in. (And I don’t know how many fathers would want to put their daughters in harm’s way or how many husbands, if they see hear some strange noise at night, would want their wives to go check 50% of the times. In my opinion women should not be sent to such dangerous jobs.)
What a terribly unfortunate attitude to have towards women scientists Yash Kansal. This is precisely the problem. Misogyny is so very firmly embedded in the minds of so many Indian men that a woman’s success HAS to be attributed to her incompetence, and nothing else. It’s so sad that we are still raising men like these
Actually I have worked as a research assistant in a premier science institute, and one problem I faced was the lack of a decent toilet. The key to the only toilet was in the admin office, but if I arrived early to beat traffic (which was often the case), I had to wait for the admin office to open.
Administrations are so inept at providing even basic facilities for women that and power structures so blind, quite frankly they don’t deserve the genius of women in this country.
If you want to be a scientist and you are competent.
Everything else is just an excuse.
Maybe they aren’t competent enough and are present just as a token like the IIT reservation