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The Push For Quotas For Women In Science
mlimber writes "The NYTimes has a story about how Congress has quietly begun to press for an equal number of women in the hard sciences and engineering under Title IX, which is best known for mandating numerical equality for boys' and girls' sports for institutions that accept federal funding. The problem is, the article says, it is not merely that women face discrimination from male colleagues, though that is often true, or that they are discouraged from pursuing these fields. Rather, women with aptitude in these areas often simply have other interests and so pursue their education and careers in other fields like law, education, or biology. Opponents of this plan, including many women in scientific fields, say implementing sex-based quotas will actually be detrimental because it will communicate that the women can't compete on even terms with men and will be 'devastating' to the quality of science 'if every male-dominated field has to be calibrated to women's level of interest.'"
Of course you think women are inferior to you. You hate them. You find vaginas disgusting and women deplorable. I am sure you have some female friends but only to hide what you truly feel about them. Do you keep them as friends just to make yourself feel superior. This is ridiculous.
Geez, I was going to point out your ridiculousness, but I'm not sure it's necessary. Even if any sane Slashdot reader initially disagreed with the parent, I'm sure your inane post has already driven them to his side.
Here's a tip: If you support a cause, I think you could best help it by staying quiet. At least then you won't be actively driving people away.
How about we focus on the letter B there, I'd vote for that :)
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!
I think we already do. Certainly none of these favor any particular race. For instance, the percentage of whites on welfare is pretty close to the percentage of whites in this country. Around where I live, about half the time I hear of a murder, it is a white person. Hell, there are white mothers that kill their entire family. Now with the right jury and the right lawyer we don't call it murder...
Then there is the drug use. Sure, crack is associated with race, but what is crack. Cheap cocaine. Do we make a distinction if people drink wine or muskatel when we pull then over for drunk driving? No, so why do we for cocaine. And what about pot. Who smokes Pot? You know.
Drugs knows no racial boundries. Our president will only say that has not been a cokehead for the past 15 years... His father ran a cocaine trade through the CIA and the oval office.
We get a distorted view of who abuses drug, and, according to our president, funds terrorists, because the police find it easier to raid the street corner than the country club. Because prosecutors find it easier to convict minorities that high profile persons like our president. In the place where I grew up, all the white kids did drugs, and several of them were addicts. I have friends who make a small fortune running counseling programs to keep rich white kids out of jail, where, frankly, they belong, as the counseling does not seem to do much good. I have a number of white friends who are royally fucked up because of the drugs that they did. I am always alarmed at the number of white people, over the age of 30, that still abuse drugs. They get away with it because, you know. It is dangerous to believe that because one does not fit a profile, one is not in danger.
Then, of course, there are terrorists. Eric Robert Rudolph. Timothy McViegh and Teryy Nichols. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Jay Gregory who is threatening to kill a US judge. The list goes on, but I dont' want to do what you are doing. Blaming women and minorities for you problems.
But I know what you are trying to say, and it is more or less valid, if it wasn't based on a basic bigotry.