These kinds of articles and conferences are so strange: the actual question is “why aren’t women happy with low social status”. I call it “why does a shitty male programmer get paid more than a good female teacher”.
My conference summary:
Why aren’t women’s brains like men’s brains? Why don’t women get more men’s jobs? Why doesn’t medicine…
These kinds of articles and conferences are so strange: the actual question is “why aren’t women happy with low social status”. I call it “why does a shitty male programmer get paid more than a good female teacher”.
My conference summary:
Why aren’t women’s brains like men’s brains? Why don’t women get more men’s jobs? Why doesn’t medicine ignore women more? Why doesn’t erasing female sex as a concept make women happier? Why don’t we tell children more often that growing up a woman is valueless? Are women low status because of biology or social conditioning? In medicine, “Dosing women the same as men may be suboptimal, and affects men who insist they are women.”
Very important questions all, indeed Professor Higgins!
The money quote:
“Daphna Joel countered this by pointing out that women are generally happier in gender-egalitarian countries compared to those with strict gender roles, like Afghanistan and Iran.”
Translation:
Women are generally happier in societies that value them than those which don’t.
That is generally called a tautology.
Staggering insight.
Lerner and Lowe said it best in 1964, and to music!
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair.
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that?
Why does every one do what the others do?
Can't a woman learn to use her head?
Why do they do everything their mothers do?
Why don't they grow up, well, like their father instead?
Why can't a woman take after a man?
Men are so pleasant, so easy to please.
Whenever you're with them, you're always at ease.
Would you be slighted if I didn't speak for hours?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Of course not.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Would you be livid if I had a drink or two?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Nonsense.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Would you be wounded if I never sent you flowers?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Never.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Well, why can't a woman be like you?
One man in a million may shout a bit.
Now and then, there's one with slight defects.
One perhaps whose truthfulness you doubt a bit,
But by and large we are a marvelous sex!
Why can't a woman take after a man?
'Cause men are so friendly, good-natured and kind.
A better companion you never will find.
If I were hours late for dinner would you bellow?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Of course not.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
If I forgot your silly birthday, would you fuss?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Nonsense.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Would you complain if I took out another fellow?
Pickering
Never.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Why can't a woman be like us?
[dialog]
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so decent, such regular chaps;
Ready to help you through any mishaps;
Ready to buck you up whenever you're glum.
Why can't a woman be a chum?
Why is thinking something women never do?
And why is logic never even tried?
Straightening up their hair is all they ever do.
Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside?
These kinds of articles and conferences are so strange: the actual question is “why aren’t women happy with low social status”. I call it “why does a shitty male programmer get paid more than a good female teacher”.
My conference summary:
Why aren’t women’s brains like men’s brains? Why don’t women get more men’s jobs? Why doesn’t medicine ignore women more? Why doesn’t erasing female sex as a concept make women happier? Why don’t we tell children more often that growing up a woman is valueless? Are women low status because of biology or social conditioning? In medicine, “Dosing women the same as men may be suboptimal, and affects men who insist they are women.”
Very important questions all, indeed Professor Higgins!
The money quote:
“Daphna Joel countered this by pointing out that women are generally happier in gender-egalitarian countries compared to those with strict gender roles, like Afghanistan and Iran.”
Translation:
Women are generally happier in societies that value them than those which don’t.
That is generally called a tautology.
Staggering insight.
Lerner and Lowe said it best in 1964, and to music!
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair.
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that?
Why does every one do what the others do?
Can't a woman learn to use her head?
Why do they do everything their mothers do?
Why don't they grow up, well, like their father instead?
Why can't a woman take after a man?
Men are so pleasant, so easy to please.
Whenever you're with them, you're always at ease.
Would you be slighted if I didn't speak for hours?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Of course not.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Would you be livid if I had a drink or two?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Nonsense.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Would you be wounded if I never sent you flowers?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Never.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Well, why can't a woman be like you?
One man in a million may shout a bit.
Now and then, there's one with slight defects.
One perhaps whose truthfulness you doubt a bit,
But by and large we are a marvelous sex!
Why can't a woman take after a man?
'Cause men are so friendly, good-natured and kind.
A better companion you never will find.
If I were hours late for dinner would you bellow?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Of course not.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
If I forgot your silly birthday, would you fuss?
COLONEL PICKERING:
Nonsense.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Would you complain if I took out another fellow?
Pickering
Never.
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Why can't a woman be like us?
[dialog]
PROFESSOR HIGGINS:
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so decent, such regular chaps;
Ready to help you through any mishaps;
Ready to buck you up whenever you're glum.
Why can't a woman be a chum?
Why is thinking something women never do?
And why is logic never even tried?
Straightening up their hair is all they ever do.
Why don't they straighten up the mess that's inside?
Why can't a woman behave like a man?