Eat Your Heart Out Starbuck!
Lets just pretend that the world takes on a conscious decision to train girls to be more “male-like”, just so they are more IT savvy- make them adapt, start them really young. And then lets just assume that perhaps IT is an industry that really was created by men for only the male brain to cope with. You honestly need to be a bloke to handle it.
Fast forward a few hundred years ( I think that’s all it takes, maybe less even) – what will we end up with?
I watched an episode of Battlestar Galactica last night, and for those of you who follow the series, you would have noticed that its a world where women and men dress the same, they share the same locker rooms, they share the showers, they have mixed boxing matches, they fly Vipers and kick-ass just as the men do. And of course with that, they also drink, burp and swear as much as the men do!
There was a little of that in Ally MacBeal, a law firm where the female and male lawyers share the powder room rest room.
Tell me now, how many of you find that appealing?
dek replied:
Is there such a thing as ‘the male brain’?
And why would one need to be a bloke to handle IT?
It is interesting that it is only in the public sphere that the genders (or gender utilities) are segregated.
If we don’t mind sharing at home, what’s the big deal about sharing public amenities?
December 5, 2006 at 3:15 am. Permalink.
giwells123 replied:
This was only hypothetical.
Is there such a thing as the male brain, or the female brain, the chinese brain, the caucasian brain? Its worth another argument. A brain is a brain is a brain. But how you train the brain and what circuits you build into it certainly has a part in determining how a brain works.
Public amenities as opposed to private amenities at home is somewhat different, I suppose , or is it?
December 5, 2006 at 5:25 am. Permalink.