Women report not “getting up the nerve” to ask questions, so researchers propose that “question time be unlimited” at scientific talks. Because, you know, time is a construct. If you won’t hang around waiting for others to speak, you must be a misogynist.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202743 …
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Note the paternalistic attitude of all of this. Feminism sure operates by the rules of male-hyperagency, and female-hypoagency. I mean, we could address the problem with assertiveness training, but alas, feminists seem to want their comfortable hypoagency.
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I'm curious: have you ever been subject to sexism in the context of your profession? If so, what is the proper remedy?
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I'm sure you mean well, but she hasn't invited you to ask questions about her personal experience in a public forum. Why do so? I can't help noting the irony of Heather's pinned tweet: "Engage me as a human first."
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It is a very reasonable question. My understanding is that most women experience this sort of thing (it is far from rare). Since she is sceptical of typical efforts, I wonder what her remedy might be.
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@HeatherEHeying's general position is that a) we need to address facts and data rather than anecdotes of individual grievance, and b) solutions to sexism shouldn't reduce all women to shrinking violets. So any single experience might be of limited use. /1 -
In this particular case, I understand her argument to be that lack of women's assertiveness is remedied by increased women's assertiveness, not by decreasing men's. 2/
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There's also an argument that the facts do not soundly substantiate the theory here. I would argue that most people lack assertiveness and that the gender variance could be misleading. 3/
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Say for example that 70% of men and 95% of women lack assertiveness. The following would then both be true: a) Most men lack assertiveness. b) Assertive people tend to be male. They are not contradictions, but complicate the issue. 4/
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To suggest that the remedy is for men to speak 2nd, is to ignore the fact that most men, too, lack assertiveness. A logical solution then is to increase ALL people's assertiveness, rather than ask the segment that suffers marginally less (but still highly) to be silent. 5/5
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