tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843484764576370281.post2783392994891602250..comments2023-06-07T14:02:43.202+01:00Comments on A Spiderweb Life: Sincerely, a feministAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03404685361570921428noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843484764576370281.post-53107331268987351932016-08-13T06:40:43.758+01:002016-08-13T06:40:43.758+01:00Essay writing is an academic activity that aims to...Essay writing is an academic activity that aims to hone students’ writing skills. With its complex process, writing essays enables the writer to explore a topic in depth. See more <a href="http://www.accountingassignmenthelp.net/" rel="nofollow">accounts assignment help</a><br />Troy Floreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10629316619066644960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843484764576370281.post-22283669818308867332016-02-27T16:19:12.208+00:002016-02-27T16:19:12.208+00:00Feminism is not about equality for both genders. ...Feminism is not about equality for both genders. It's about the fact that equality does not exist for one gender. There's a remedial mandate built into it - as there is for anti-racism, anti-homophobia, etc.<br />Presumably this organization was about giving girls a leg up over the imbalances and the highly documented pervasive biases that prevent women from succeeding in STEM. This competition was not even gender blind to the contestants which makes it just another statistic about a female contender losing out to a male one.<br />Just teaching young girls early that they are going to lose out to their male counterparts is useless. You don't need a targeted program to do that - it's called every STEM platform ever.philosopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18442350703292376412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843484764576370281.post-75795055711012414802016-02-27T15:28:33.407+00:002016-02-27T15:28:33.407+00:00Does not coming first in a competition prove us in...Does not coming first in a competition prove us inferior? Because perhaps then the issue is changing that attitude than in encouraging girls into STEM. If boys are eligible for a competition, than a boy can win. What matters is that the best project wins, surely? Because if you suggest that they should have allowed a girl to win for her gender as a way to encourage more girls into STEM, all it does is make the winner feel like they did not win based purely on their talent, skill or idea, but because of their gender.<br /><br />I can't speak for anyone but I certainly never was deterred from science because I didn't win a science competition and a boy did. In fact, I think people are doing more damage to the situation by ranting on twitter, because all it does is trick these poor girls into thinking the competition was unfairly stacked against them, which it was not. Now that's something that might push girls away from STEM.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404685361570921428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843484764576370281.post-90208680255272819112016-02-27T14:30:48.235+00:002016-02-27T14:30:48.235+00:00but then again the girls that lost may just think ...but then again the girls that lost may just think that it is because they are just not as smart or good as boys in science if they can't even win a simple contest that was aimed at them in the first place....so why even bother? This is a contest for children and just because you see it as fair I can assure you those little girls did not an will not see it like that, instead they are humiliated that once again they were proven the inferior sex.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04478521637458480872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843484764576370281.post-16821181221007308272016-02-27T14:07:55.912+00:002016-02-27T14:07:55.912+00:00Thanks for writing this article. It's good to ...Thanks for writing this article. It's good to hear a voice of reason in this controversy.DDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18145266405508921161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1843484764576370281.post-31456052610869939782016-02-26T22:05:04.868+00:002016-02-26T22:05:04.868+00:00At the end of the day, a competition stops being a...At the end of the day, a competition stops being a competition if you start blocking people from entering. To discriminate against boys and not let them enter and stand a fair chance at winning would be discrimination and EDF have done the right thing in opening it to boys as well.<br /><br />We see so many stories where instances of clubs, groups, classes are forced to open up to allow girls to enter, when we see one that has done it to allow boys to enter in a fair way suddenly these so called feminists claim that its wrong.<br /><br />I personally think it tells us something about the feminist movement when equal and fair inclusion of boys is considered by them wrong...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com