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0 pointspdabbadabba11y ago0 comments

1) Why should we assume it's "probably impossible to solve the problem of women being harder on women"? 2) How could we solve "the problem of men being harder on women without realizing it" if, as this article illustrates, we can measure the genders' responses to one another independently?

Edit: I've been ignoring this premise for the sake of argument, but now it's time to raise an objection: Men aren't harder on other men. Both men and women are harder on women. This article itself demonstrates this. (It's more complex than just "being harder on." But, in the context of this article I take "being harder/easier on" to be short for "tending to respond negatively/positively to verbal contributions, regardless of the contribution's merit.")

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teamhappy11y ago

I think we all pretty much agree on what is happening and how complex the issue is. What I'm unhappy about is how quickly people seem to reach simplified answers. I'd be amazed to find out that the answer to such a complex question is anything but a long list of many seemingly unrelated things.

Don't get me wrong, misogyny and bias are on that list, but I don't have nearly enough information to even reason about how much of an impact they have compared to all the others.

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