tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post2895188516713718835..comments2024-02-20T15:17:48.594+11:00Comments on A.E.Brain: Feminism Piled Higher and DeeperZoe Brainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13712045376060102538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-48471054616293554692008-04-04T18:14:00.000+11:002008-04-04T18:14:00.000+11:00WTF? "encapsulates - or encrapsulates - all that I...WTF? "encapsulates - or encrapsulates - all that I despise in Post-Modernist Feminism."????<BR/><BR/>I thought only I could use a phrase like that!! Worse, why aren't your blogospheric cromies lighting up like $2 joints and whining that you are a "massage-inist"?<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work: there is A LOT WRONG with feminism, not just the post-mods. Not least of which is that whole dialectic of who is and who isn't a 'real feminist'.<BR/><BR/>The day that women had to analyze whether or not the are strong, or equal etc is the day they stopped being so, and became paternalizing pedantic replicant whiners... that old expression 'there are those who do and those who teach..." set apart from those who teach by doing.<BR/><BR/>I am laughing my ass off right now thinking about all of those so called 'professors' of knowledge hiding behind their degrees--especially in Womens Studies--as if they have to study to be a woman, and slathering over all of the new young female minds( and often, bpdies) to twist up and smoke....instead of being out there in the field somewhere teaching by example.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5573426.post-48602849979734931402008-04-01T00:45:00.000+11:002008-04-01T00:45:00.000+11:00Quite a few people have noticed that fewer women a...Quite a few people have noticed that fewer women are entering engineering and that female engineers seem to be abandoning the profession in Australia. Apart from the immaturity of too many engineers, the dysfunctional workplaces and prejudice against women no one seem to have any idea why. <BR/><BR/>I am not the only 30-something woman to have noticed this and, in fact, I am within three months of abandoning the profession. If I do, I will not bother to finish off my PhD, but instead will pursue another career altogether.<BR/><BR/>At first, I thought my pointless search for anything worthwhile in engineering might have been a small absence for further study, or maybe my transition, not that I advertise it. However, talking about this with other 30-something women made me feel better - then worse. It seems that most engineering (and project management) environments take the view that a woman of that age will no doubt have kids and *gasp* go on maternity leave. At one interview, I was all but asked whether I had or intended to have kids.<BR/><BR/>In a perverse way, I am almost looking forward to abandoning the whole endeavour. It turns out that the reality of engineering is pathetically dull. I should have studied maths instead!<BR/><BR/>E.Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07421631766366799600noreply@blogger.com