the fact that there were only 4 girls willing to try should tell you
something about the way things are. i won't bore you too much with things,
but we don't live in a vacuum. societal norms, rules, laws, etc. influences
everything and everyone. 2 girls dropping out of the class when there were
only 4 is a large percentage. the limitations aren't imaged, they are real
because of the images of females we are constently bombarded with. people
can'tdistance themselves from the problem, because that only adds to it. in
fact, doing so makes it easier to justify unjust actions, and to construct
an image of a person who is at fault because of their situation and their
inability to change it, instead of seeing how we are all related, and how
we perpetuate these injustices, and trying to resolve them for real. it's
the same with race and class issues...very complicated, but i won't go
there.
maia
--On Fri, Oct 6, 2000 7:56 AM -0700 Nick Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > I currently
> > am the only girl out of
> > 16 guys to be taking a Cisco networking class at my
> > high school...
>
> > Not
> > only am I a girl but I'm also 17 so I get looked
> > down upon by other woman a
> > little bit older.
>
> Yeah, I'm doing Computing at college and there were
> only like 4 girls when we started... now we're down to
> 2 because lots of ppl dropped out... it's a very
> difficult course u c.
>
> Maybe there is something in girls not liking techno
> and IT and stuff like that? I dunno, it seems to me
> that most girls look at their (sometimes imagined)
> limitations first rather than just going for the
> target. Whereas guys have a tendancy to do first,
> think after (or not think at all:).
>
> It's fact that men and women's brains are "wired"
> slightly differently, I don't think this makes one
> more intelligent or able than the other tho... Men and
> women process information differently that's all...
>
> Nick (Dj Pacific:)
>
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