"Going to war to preserve the peace is like fucking to preserve virginity."
Business connections don't happen by being aggressive, ugly and fighty. They are based on hard won trust. In a nutshell, the problem women face is that when men trust them and like them, their first, middle, last and only thought is often "I'd hit that!"
I'm having my own horrendous crisis today and not really up to trying to do this dance with you. I don't believe that rising literacy rates globally has anything at all to do with "throwing money at the problem." I don't think you and I are likely to reach any kind of agreement and, given my state of mind today, continuing this discussion with you is unlikely to go anyplace good at all.
Fair enough, I'm very sorry about the crisis and hope it works out okay.
I 100% agree with your calling out constant sexualization of women as a major problem that permeates the industry, so I don't think we're really that far apart. At least on my end any disagreement mostly centers on the role that education will play in mitigating the side effects, which is fine; even if it doesn't help as much as I hope it will, I'm still happy to see the progress that students make as a result of my work, and I can't blame anyone for being skeptical about the ultimate impact.
So no hard feelings, and I apologise if I came across as argumentative. It does occur to me in hindsight that especially in the context of this article, my comments could be construed as defensive of the industry status quo, since "it's the pipeline!" is too often used in that way. That's not what I intended at all, I'm sorry I failed to make that clear. I think we really are on the same side here in terms of goals, if not tactics.
it's extremely important to ... fight that fight,
"Going to war to preserve the peace is like fucking to preserve virginity."
Business connections don't happen by being aggressive, ugly and fighty. They are based on hard won trust. In a nutshell, the problem women face is that when men trust them and like them, their first, middle, last and only thought is often "I'd hit that!"
I'm having my own horrendous crisis today and not really up to trying to do this dance with you. I don't believe that rising literacy rates globally has anything at all to do with "throwing money at the problem." I don't think you and I are likely to reach any kind of agreement and, given my state of mind today, continuing this discussion with you is unlikely to go anyplace good at all.
Adieu.