The audacity of the men here is breathtaking. They're not even ashamed of attending a career conference for women. This is the backlash against women making gains in STEM. Women are finally begining to infiltrate, even just a little bit, highly paid male-dominated industries, and the menz cannot deal.
https://x.com/rottengirl/status/1709195019792318622?s=20
There are many reasons why men don't want women to infiltrate STEM. I bet one of those reasons is because they subconsciously know that the women who pursue STEM education and careers put way more time and effort into their work than men who half-ass their way through college. Thus, women are percieved as a "threat" in the workplace to them because they know that women will be far better workers and create competition that otherwise wouldn't be there. Good employers (that is, employers who know what is in their best interest) always value what a potential employee can do for their workplace, so it makes sense that women who take their careers and education seriously and build strong portfolios/resumes will be preferred over men who don't. They don't want women to infiltrate because it will raise the standards and make it difficult for them to get by with half-assing.
It was never really theirs to begin with. They pushed women out. Three black women got us to the moon. Men considered coding beneath them before it became lucrative. They looked at it as women's work. You had to be smart and mathematically inclined to be a coder back in the day. Men were only hardware engineers because they looked at software engineering as secretarial work. Heidie Lamar invented the blueprint for Wi-Fi technology that we use today. Ada Lovelace invented computer programming. Women are the original coders. The other day I watched a movie based on a true story in the 1700s/1800s where a man was using his wife to write his novels for him and publishing them under his name. He became a very successful "author" but he didn't write those books. The C-section was practiced in Africa during since the 17 and 1800s safely by black midwives. Perhaps even earlier than that. Forgot which country specifically in Africa, but a white male doctor learned from them and brought this knowledge back to the West and published it taking credit for "the C-section." Yet this medical knowledge came from black women. Men used their physical strength and violence to control and steal from women. The majority of people including many FDS women today are still brainwashed by patriarchy to think that men built society. Women's contributions go completely unacknowledged. The history between men and women is one of theft. Men taking credit for women's inventions and contributions And then passing it off as their own. Thse are the cases we know of. Imagine all the cases that we don't know of because they never came to light. Additionally, anonymous in history was always a woman.
I've experienced the whiplash of this firsthand. I had a high-paying, exciting job at a tech company, but the culture was extremely aggressive and devoid of humanity. It was like a cult, run exclusively by male executives. It's like tech companies are now social clubs for egomaniacal men clinging on to the last vestige of power they have over us (women subordinates).
That is outrageous!! Grace Hopper is not just “a tech conference,” it is one of the largest and best-known women in tech conferences. It’s where many women STEM college grads find their first job, including several of my college classmates. This is why opening women-only spaces to “non-binary” is such BS. It’s unfortunate to be stuck using this word, but I want females to have these career opportunities - not “trans women”, and not “non-binary” males.
This is true. I work in STEM, which involves very lucrative offshore work dominated by men. Every woman who worked there has a story of men setting them up to fail and laughing at them. And of being wolf whistled and sexually harassed. They act like women don't belong there. Offshore workers also have a reputation for being shit at their jobs, not being able to follow simple instructions, because they send things back to us and we can tell they've done it wrong. And it's usually men who did the shitty job. They also apparently spend their offshore time watching football and get pissed off if they actually have to work. Many of them are absolutely shit and lazy at their jobs. More women are starting to enter this work, and they always look like they excel at the job. I've seen them get nominations and good feedback from the clients for "going above and beyond" and genuinely being helpful. That's why the men discriminate women going offshore, they know that woman can suddenly make lots of money like they can and that means they aint shit, they got nothing to offer. Men think all they need to do is work full time and they're got value, now women are doing the jobs only they traditionally did, they feel insecure and threatened.
The comments under that post are disgusting. Basically men celebrating those scrotes who infiltrated because "hooho based, dumb women advocated for trans rights but now it bites them back". They speak as if all women are in favor of men in skirts, when in reality quite few genuinely advocated for it. It was and still is a minority, most women didn't want this shit. But men still use the strawman argument as an excuse to shit on women. Classic.
This genius probably didn't think that just because someone votes for a party, it means that he or she agrees with every single idea the party promotes. Right-wing groups and parties oftentimes promote misogyny and ideals that are inherently patriarchal, while left-wing is more female-friendly but also promotes dumb shit like the lgbtqabc nonsense. Radical, traditional feminism is such a niche nowadays that there isn't a political party just for that. It's kind of a "lesser of two evils"-situation, but of course he disregards that in favor of hinting that women shouldn't have the right to vote. Note the ratio between likes and comments: many people agree with his statement. Should tell you all about how prevalent casual misogyny is especially on the internet.
I read about this on NPR and checked out social media about this and people were claiming "discrimination" because men were not invited. Like boy math is getting ridiculous. BTW I looked up ticket prices for these event and holy crap, that's a barrier for a lot of women who don't have the means to get in and network.
STEM was not originally theirs except for when women weren't allowed to go to college. Somebody wrote "Mean Girls" and things fell apart for a bit, but we've always been in science and math, often leading. They take the few women we talk about on women's day like there aren't thousands more where that came from historically, and even in recent history.