tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post7496106226690952021..comments2023-10-09T02:38:50.119-07:00Comments on At My Soiree: Gender Parity and Shoulder PadsChrisJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-56509449547670877182012-12-21T20:50:42.794-08:002012-12-21T20:50:42.794-08:00Judie,
Have a good Christmas.
I will be getting ...Judie,<br /><br />Have a good Christmas.<br /><br />I will be getting back to the photos in the New Year.ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-14043026398288689372012-12-21T13:53:33.195-08:002012-12-21T13:53:33.195-08:00Chris, thanks for your comment on my latest post.
...Chris, thanks for your comment on my latest post.<br /><br />I wish you would put up more of your digitalized photos! They are wonderful!!Judiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02778815502961000469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-8798798985915344072012-12-20T11:35:28.098-08:002012-12-20T11:35:28.098-08:00Pearl,
Yes, very complex stuff. Probably is some ...Pearl,<br /><br />Yes, very complex stuff. Probably is some genetic component, with culture playing a shaping role.ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-60700316371089109172012-12-20T08:36:14.280-08:002012-12-20T08:36:14.280-08:00A good addition to the debate.
It's hard to w...A good addition to the debate.<br /><br />It's hard to weed out what's going on. People behave and aggregate patterns form for reasons that look individualized.<br /><br />The idea to blame men still embeds women as helpless hapless victims having their destinies created for them. <br /><br />Context is part. I remember when teaching ESL how the Chinese students and Ukrainian students remarked on how women don't do the same jobs here. So few women here are in construction, doing electronics, and road work, for example. <br /><br />China's equity struck me as far ahead of here. It arose perhaps partly due to the insistence on not distinguishing between individuals or genders. <br /><br />There isn't the same hyper-sexualized society when there's poverty. Affluence seems to breed the luxury of heightened gender distinctions. When there's survival to be done, everyone pitches in. But even in impoverished areas, highlands of Guatemala for example, there are male and female divisions of labour.<br /><br />Assumptions are embedded. Even slight tendencies register as general guidelines to the brain. I'd guess that it is something mammalian or broader that informs it.Pearlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05251168248457758117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-91689326767868639922012-12-04T19:28:51.893-08:002012-12-04T19:28:51.893-08:00Judie,
Exactly!Judie,<br /><br />Exactly!ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-51977806295805058022012-12-04T17:23:21.239-08:002012-12-04T17:23:21.239-08:00Over the centuries, women have been held back for ...Over the centuries, women have been held back for one reason--religion. The religions of the world have always held men in the highest esteem, and women have always been been demeaned as not being capable individuals for anything other than bearing children and satisfying the needs of their mates. Until religious leaders recognize women as equal to men, nothing will ever really change.Judiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02778815502961000469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-2264756288916429942012-11-29T16:25:27.018-08:002012-11-29T16:25:27.018-08:00Christi,
It really is scary.Christi,<br /><br />It really is scary.ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-60390348257915254672012-11-27T18:27:25.381-08:002012-11-27T18:27:25.381-08:00Pre-women's freedoms to work, and to live in m...Pre-women's freedoms to work, and to live in many ways....scary.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01203286781888444548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-73985346223485858342012-11-27T10:33:27.525-08:002012-11-27T10:33:27.525-08:00Christi,
Yes, to many conservative politicians it...Christi,<br /><br />Yes, to many conservative politicians it seems that the 1950's are just what we need - pre-women's movement, pre-civil rights!ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-49956295185079496902012-11-27T10:30:26.838-08:002012-11-27T10:30:26.838-08:00Hels,
Forgot to say - yes, the paper is in circul...Hels,<br /><br />Forgot to say - yes, the paper is in circulation nationally and has been quite influential, although has gone downhill lately.ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-65757509548706403362012-11-26T21:25:43.203-08:002012-11-26T21:25:43.203-08:00You have to admit, our politicians have taken a gi...You have to admit, our politicians have taken a giant step backward in their views too. I cannot believe that after the work we have done since before the 60s is being railroaded and trying to leave women back in the beginning of the Women's Movement! How is this happening? Sad for those of us who have degrees that now are sometimes worthless in this atmosphere of the return of the, "little women," ideal.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01203286781888444548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-35008528146128846572012-11-26T17:17:35.761-08:002012-11-26T17:17:35.761-08:00Hels,
I think sometimes that we are back-trackin...Hels, <br /><br />I think sometimes that we are back-tracking. As women do better, the naysayers become more entrenched.ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13139508470517226199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5557515713379617009.post-36959446123443944272012-11-26T15:32:58.949-08:002012-11-26T15:32:58.949-08:00Chris,
is The Globe and Mail an intellectual and ...Chris,<br /><br />is The Globe and Mail an intellectual and influential paper? I hope not.<br /><br />I wonder why Wente "throws out the spectre of China and India overtaking us because they supposedly don't concern themselves with gender parity". If China and India are not concerned with women's equality of opportunity, then there is no fearful spectre to concern her. If China and India HAVE been very involved, as you suggest, then Wente better be having a jolly good look at their results.<br /><br />I thought we sorted this out in the battles of 1963-70. Has nothing improved since our youth?Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.com