Originally posted by lazs2
tigress... I don't know.. I wouldn't get too upset about the unfairness of it all.
The double standard?
I think that most realize that women can't stand to see a boys club.. there is always a few that can't stand to see men doing anything that excludes women. They have to jump in.
If it is rough.. they decide the activity and the men are at fault and try to make it more womanly.
The same is not true for men tho.. they don't feel left out or picked on when women want to do womanly things with other women.
women wear mens clothes and do mens things.. men don't care to wear womens clothes and do womenly things (the vast majority anyway)
Sooo.. it is not women who "have to live with a double standard" so much as men. It is the women who want to live in both worlds not the other way around.
lazs
Hi Lazs,
Good post in my view.
With regards to the ubiquitous GOBN... we have a GOGN as well.
In businesses I am in we (male and female engineers together) also have the "informal network" which cuts unnecessary red tape and gets the job done, done right, and in an expedited manor.
The good ole boys network (GOBN) can work for men and against them.
Good talent and good work ethics, like the baby, should not be thrown out with the bath water. Not sound business sense, in my view.
Sexual prejudices are, often times, self-defeating. Major corporations like Intel are capitalizing on pockets of seriously talented women who are bypassed by other companies living with a paradigm of assumptions based in antiquity.
WWII opened the eyes of American industry, with regards to the mostly untapped productive resources of women. There were and are men who don't like it and men who do like it.
We, the USA, were "on the ropes" in the beginning of WWII and women flooding industry to free up men to fight in the war was part of what we did to help win WWII.
When many of us got a taste of it all we realized our potential more clearly.
We are not men... most of us, including me, do not want to be men.
But we are not helpless children either.
Ya know, there are women who are also culpable in the suppression of each other. What woman who has been battered in a marriage has not been asked by another woman... "what did you do to bring this on yourself?"
Saw an interesting movie yesterday titled: ENOUGH
It's a work of fiction but an interesting one.
For those of you who have Comcast, it is among the Free Movies in the On Demand area.
..some serious butt kicking and duels of intellect. David and Goliath stuff.
Men were cast in roles of disabling and enabling... like real life.
Jupiter was cool.
TIGERESS
