Reply #95: Not only no, but HELL NO. [View All]

[Manifestor_of_Light]

I was born in the 50s. I went to college, worked hard, and got a Juris Doctor (law degree).

However, did it help me get a job??? No it didn't.

I've had male bosses and female bosses too, put me down and belittle my abilities.

It doesn't help that I am five foot three. Tall people like to intimidate short people, and I include tall women in that.

I get no respect, like Rodney Daingerfield.

Movies and the media are all about men. For example, in The Dark Knight, there is one female character, Vicki Vale, and she gets killed off quickly. There goes half the audience, because at a movie you will find somebody of your own gender to identify with. This tells me that only men are important and only male activities are important. There are plenty of movies with no, or very few, female characters. Violence and gore are glorified. Torture, stalking and murder of women is very common in movies and TV shows, to the point that it is routine.

Same thing with the Sunday talk shows. Women are not thought to have important opinions about politics, science, or whatever. They must defer to men.

The GOP thinks that women are so stupid they will vote for an idiot like Sarah Palin, because she is allegedly equivalent in experience and competence to Hillary Clinton. They hate women and don't understand womens' issues at all. Most of the men are probably closet gays.

:grr: :wtf:


One true story: In 1974 I was doing temp work down close to Mission Control, near NASA in Houston. I was working for a contractor as a secretary.
My boss said, "Richard Feynman, I'm sure you don't know who he is".
I said: "He wrote the Feynman Lectures on Physics".
Then he said: "Carl Sagan, I'm sure you don't know who he is".
I said: "He teaches astrophysics at Cornell".

He shut up after he got shot down a second time.

He thought I was a stupid little 18 year old college student. I was dating guys that were physics/math majors so I knew about Sagan and Feynman.

What a jerk, but sadly, all too typical.