tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719356366303333951.post7520686004828042745..comments2024-01-02T04:55:07.853-05:00Comments on Pieces of Me: Q&A #2 - Mrs CH's QuestionsJLKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05396471022931966499noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719356366303333951.post-85685339151970802442009-04-19T16:38:00.000-04:002009-04-19T16:38:00.000-04:00Mrs. CH, I think you are confusing agreeing and di...Mrs. CH, I think you are confusing agreeing and disagreeing with personal experiences. With sexism, women are all individual pioneers because of the fact that we are tokens in science. This is why some older women get pissed with younger women when the whole topic of "strides and waves of feminism" comes up and that younger women have it "easier" because of the older women who paved the way. That may be true IN THEIR LOCALITY. It is NOT true at many other workplaces where her achievements were tokenized, leading to a gross exaggeration that all women would/should/could follow the exact footsteps of THE woman before her. The thing about it is that younger women will repeat many of the same cycles as the older women, almost to a tee. You should check out "Derailing for Dummies." They have a playbook while we forge our own paths because we are outnumbered. It's like the entire Defensive Line against 1 runner with the ball. We may disagree on how to break through the line, but we agree where the goal is.<br /><br />http://www.derailingfordummies.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6719356366303333951.post-89076770152790030592009-04-19T15:47:00.000-04:002009-04-19T15:47:00.000-04:00Thank you for your answers! The one that really su...Thank you for your answers! The one that really surprised me was to the one-up-manship question - I never thought about it that way. I might look at people now differently when they do that!<br /><br />For the last question, I guess what I was specifically getting at was what Candid Engineer<br /><A HREF="http://candidengineer.blogspot.com/2009/03/gender-discrimination-follow-up.html" REL="nofollow"> discusses here. </A> However, I see this issue in a lot of other cases. Think of the two girls fighting over the 1 man (when clearly they should both be angry at the man for cheating/two-timing/etc); women being more aggressive to other women than to men in the workplace; general cattiness/bitchiness toward each other/stabbing in the back mentality (especially in high school).<br /><br />As for other questions - I think I'll finishing reading The Female Brain and Women Don't Ask and get back to you :)Alyssahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01695509619557410413noreply@blogger.com