Racism and sexism: how are they different?

Thats what she said

 

OK You win the internetz DK. That was funny as hell.

 

Someone's gotta keep it fun kid lol

 

Maybe we just have dirtier minds than most...

 

I can say asshole in 3 different languages and 10 different dialects ha ha ha.

"IT" won't be around. Maybe I shouldn't say "IT" last time I did Admin gave me an infraction.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

Thanks, Mikey.

 

OKay DK, that is my son's joke LOL

 

On the mark jaisee, well said bro.

That is my sentiments wholeheartedly.

I'm not owed anything by anyone, I live my life positively and with good values and may the chips fall where they do.

 

One of our posters has a new signature [First God created man, then he had a better idea] I suppose it's a joke? Maybe? At this point, I really can't tell.

One thing that history has taught time and time again is that separatism and favoritism never leads to equality, only hostility. That would also explain why some feminist posters here are met with respect and others come off as a mere nuisance (troll?). It's really becoming annoyingly preachy and trite.

Martin Luther King, one of the greatest, most respected and most successful figures in equal rights history did not fight for blacks to use the golden bathrooms nor did he argue that God created us better than any other race.

Again, this is why I hate labels. The misguided efforts of some reflect on the collective.

 

And some how this will turned around and called woman bashing lol

 

Not when norgs comes out with it. You saying what he did would absolutely go that way...!!!


You staying safe...??? I'm worried about you and yours

 

I'm as prepared as u can be with food water and batteries I'm just concerned about my parents. They're older and I'm worried about their safety if there's a lot of flooding or one of them slips and falls or if debri shatters the windows on them but we'll manage. Can't wait for Monday to get here. Which reminds me I gotta check on my uncle. I'll keep you posted for as long as we have power. Thanks for the concern kid

 

I noticed one parallel between racism and sexism personally. Besides my main job, I work on computers systems and networks onsite. Anyway, I was listening to a podcast on a tech forum and, the interviewer was talking to a female technician.

She was telling the interviewer some of the experiences she had with clients, certain questions they asked; and I remembered the same things had happened to me. At the time - when these things were said to me - It made me a little uncomfortable but, I just considered it part of the job and, not that the people were being racist, maybe a little prejudice.

The questions I have been asked ( and the same questions the female tech said she was asked also) were things like: How much experience do you have? do you have any references , where did you go to school?

All these things have been asked when I'm talking to the potential client on the phone. At first it never bothered me but, when I thought about it; I never ask a repairman stuff like that when I'm shopping around for service onsite. I assume if you have a yellow-page ad ( like I do ) that you are a professional business and, have some sort of experience. I can understand questions like that, if I were going into a business to work on a major network job but, not for virus removal (which is when these things have been asked).

I understand some of the things the men have been saying in this thread however, there are some parallels and; it sucks in both cases, racism & sexism.

 

Yes, it does. I was a systems engineer, building and running the kind of servers which handle terrabytes of data, which run the back ends of ATM networks, Point of Sales credit card stuff, FED/CHIPS, etc.

If you want to laugh your ass off, go shopping with me for a laptop and someplace like Best Buy. 20 year old guys who just 'know' I cannot possibly know anything about computers because I'm a middle aged woman. They get all kinds of condescending in that passive-aggressive "let me help you out, little lady" way. I do try to be nice about it, but ah...somehow it always ends up with me in fits of giggles taking these guys apart asking questions they couldn't answer with a CS degree.

 

One of my favorite sexism stories is when I was buying a car a few years ago..... I had done research for probably 6 months and was looking at a few different cars based on affordability, maintenance, fuel economy, repairs etc.
Dudes first question to me was "what color are you looking for?". When I stated I was looking for affordability, dude left and never came back.

Same when I bought my house, how many told me that I should not bother w a house but a woman should just settle for a condo.

I can not tell how much sexist shit I deal w on a daily basis as I am in a very mans dominated field. I have to prove myself on the daily and get question a man doing my job never gets.

Just last week when I was in SLC, I was having a meeting with someone - and as I never met him I told him I had a Biochem degree in signal transduction (same as his). When we were going through his proposal and back-ground research, he used regular Biochem jargon that anybody with a biochem degree clearly knows - but said - "I apologize I used all this biochem lingo, maybe you don't understand, do you want me to explain?"

Uhhhh, didn't I just tell you I have a Biochem degree in signal transduction???
Men don't get this type of treatment. I'm used to it so I usually just get a chuckle out of it.

 

Could you imagine sexism AND racism thrown at you all in one day?

Ok, I'm done. I'm just poking fun FG.

 

No, I can not fathom! I work with a black, Jewish female physician. she jokes all the time about her triple threat and shit she has to deal with is just unreal.

 

Me too, and I could go on and on with the stories. But the best I ever heard was this woman at a cocktail party in NYC. This guy started to mansplain a scientific paper, trying to break it all down into one syllable words for her.

She'd written the paper in the first place :-D

 

Talk about fucked.

We all have shit to deal with. You just have to strap on your boots and ride it out.

 

That is too funny! I would just let him do it all before I told him I wrote the paper.. I would have LOVED to see his face. HA!

I had a similar experience at a scientific meeting where I was looking at this particular poster by a pharmaceutical company that had bought a patent that me and two others colleagues had.
They used that knowledge on this particlyar poster and had my microscopic pictures (of a specific cell type) on it where a particular method I redeveloped and refined was used.
The guy was explaining in layman's terms why it was so cool and what it was. Of course, he could not have know he was explaining my work to me. That was fun!!!! Poor guy.

True. she was a tremendous sport and took it all in stride. She definitively has to work at least twice as hard as her white male colleagues to get any recognition.