I just read a paper on 'gender-fluid geek girls' which claimed men in tech make less eye contact with attractive, feminine women & this is sexism. ' No data on this but even if true, could shyness/awkwardness be a thing?https://twitter.com/mjaeckel/status/981190080814551040 …
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This is the problem with starting with your conclusion that patriarchal & misogynistic attitudes underlie everything. It doesn't matter what the findings are. They will be spun to support that.
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Find that men make *more* eye-contact & casual conversation with conventionally feminine women & this will be objectification & entitlement & seeing women in terms of attractiveness rather than as professional colleagues.
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Find that men make *less* eye-contact & casual conversation with conventionally feminine women & this proves that being typically feminine causes women to be dismissed at work because misogyny.
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The assumption that bad motivations on the part of men must underlies everything is what is so poisonous. If someone is having difficulty looking at you or chatting with you, I'd be inclined to first, try putting them at their ease and second, leaving them alone.
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It's a weird thing that people who talk so much about systems of power which manifest socially also seem to assume that women have no power to influence a social environment when, in fact, we almost certainly have more on average.
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Because we are, on average, more attuned to social nuance and more concerned about how it should be. I am not terribly good at social nuance and find I am much more likely to offend women with failings of this than men. There are more rules in female company.
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Where the workplace is concerned, I disagree vehemently with that assertion. For 25 yrs., I've seen men mediating virtually every interpersonal or professional dispute.
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You find that men make more rules about social niceties?
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