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This is the most "not all men" answer I could ever imagine. You literally got angry at the data, not because there's sexism, but because there are other men who exist in other places who aren't sexist.
It's well-documented that women don't go into STEM. When data explains why women don't go into STEM, getting pissy because there are men who are in other fields who aren't sexist completely misses the entire goddamned point.
I think he may have stumbled past a interesting point (his main point was kind of dumb)-
While I would say the STEM crowd is more susceptable to a certain kind of intellectual narcissism that allows shitty behavior, anyone doing this kind of study should hopefully be making an effort to address the idea that if like 1/6 of dudes are extra shitty then are the STEM students uniquely shitty or are they just normal shitty and the classroom breakdown just means that there's like 50% more shitty dudes and half as many targets for their shittyness.
That said, I'd love to see the stats on law schools as they tend have the "bro-est bros"
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Or, hear me out, it's just sexism.
So not worth studying? How do you address things like sexism without attempting to understand it? the tech bro sexism itself might be an overlap with incel culture which may be solveable in a variety of ways or religious sexism which could be harder for a public US institution to address.
IMO it also affects how many extra counselors you'd need to hire to expand tech degrees vs non tech degrees and whether maybe some kind of socializing class should be included in curriculum - this isn't just some game, both the victims and perpetrators are real people who have to be accomodated/resocialized appropriately.
Does the data explain why women don't go into stem, or does it simply state what women in stem self-report?
Don't go into stem, you can't read data. And I say that while honestly not caring about your genitals.
Dismissing sexism within a particular group because it is disproportionately prevalent in that group is, frankly, treating that sexism as acceptable.
You can just as easily extend this approach until you either reach a group where it's evened out, or is the entirety of humanity.
"It's more prevalent in stem? No, you have to look at university students overall"
"It's prevalent in university students overall? No, you have to look at all students"
"It's prevalent in students as a whole? No, you have to look at everyone involved in education"
"It's prevalent in education in general? No, you have to look at public services as a whole"
"It's prevalent in public services as a whole? No, you have to look at all non-private entities"
"It's prevalent across non-private entities? No, you have to look at all forms of work"
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