On 2014-01-19 17:16, Bill Stewart wrote:
Sorry, James, but we really don't need sexist or racist trolling here.
One way accommodation, wherein men accommodate female differences, but females do not accommodate male differences, is dysfunctional, as demonstrated by Katherine Hultgreen, and also admits the inequality that it denies. If you call it racism and sexism when characteristically male standards are upheld, this implicitly admits that women are different from men, and therefore in some activities and aspects inferior, while in others, the properly feminine sphere, superior. If women are equal to men, then they deserve to be called out if they fail to live up to characteristically male standards. If on the other hand, women are not equal to men, and require special treatment, http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/11/13/special-needs-employees/ then they deserve a condescending pat on the head when they show up in male forums and need to be gently shepherded to a properly feminine environment, where they will not feel so out of place. You are trying to have your cake and eat it as well, one way equality, wherein women are not only equal to men, but more equal than men. If you call it racism and sexism when characteristically male standards are upheld, this has the unfortunate result that male behavior gets replaced by female behavior: Whereupon you get Katherine Hultgreen doing an Amelia Earhart. If feminism is the principle that women are equal to men, cannot be the Katherine Hultgreen/Amelia Earhart principle that women get special treatment to accommodate their failings and weaknesses. That path does not work. Characteristically male environments are characteristically male because of characteristically male virtues. Characteristically female environment are characteristically female because of characteristically female virtues. If we are to have integration without social decay, then females entering a characteristically male environment need to live up to difficult, stressful, uncomfortable, and unfamiliar standards, as Katherine Hultgreen demonstrated in the most dramatic and terrible possible fashion, and Cari Matchet demonstrated in a more frivolous and amusing fashion.