Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Thoughts/reply (8)

On writing: See, I'm an american and we tend (at least the less "rah rah usa is the best" of us, tend to assume germany, france and the UK have been education systems.  So when we see writing like this out of a UK university, we cry.  "fuck, can no one in this entire world write well anymore??"

On Quotas: if what we are talking about is true equity in "representation", then should we enforce quotas? I've wondered a lot about that on our US national level. Women make, "duh", 50 percent - give or take - of the population. Women are less than 25% of the house and 10% of the Senate. Given just how many issues in this world directly effect women in ways they do not effect men, that disparity is huge when it comes to real world effects. And there are qualified women (though the republicans continue to try to disprove this), who are beaten by men simply because we as a nation gravitate to men as leaders.

So what would happen if you force 50% of our representation to be women, by legal quota? Would that change anything? Would it help? I kinda think it would. I just don't think you ever could do it; but if you don't set up such a quota, how will things ever change?

So a smaller scale - university scale, you say "we are going to enforce a 40% women, 20% ethnic minority on the Board and on any governing body. I know the men would scream blood murder that they are being discriminated against, and that women who are unqualified will be given posts over men who are unqualified.  But this very screaming, to me, would prove the point that having too many men on an "equality" committee defeats the purpose.  SOME MEN ARE NOT EQUAL, but as a population, by and large, they have no grounds for saying it.  So what would such a committee for "gender equality" represent?    And if you say "it's for those few men who *are* discriminated against for being men, then I have to ask, "how many women are discriminated against for each man?"

To me, especially in these types of discussions, and after certain BON troll around here, I want to say "It is impossible to talk about men's gender inequality, when they are the standard bearers we have for economic success, political success, and social success.