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From: pepke@ds1.scri.fsu.EDU (Eric Pepke)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Feminism's ill effects on men?
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Date: 5 Oct 90 15:43:02 GMT
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In article <1990Oct04.155651.27377@sdd.hp.com> Adrienne Regard <hp-sdd.sdd.hp.com!hpsdde!regard@hpsdlo.sdd.hp.COM> writes:
>That's not much of a consolation to the poor fellow who wanted to be
>an engineer and got competed out of the position.

Well, if he just got competed out of the position, that's just tough.
If the reason the competition is higher is because women's role has
changed, that's just tough.  Actually, no matter what the reason for
the increased competition, it's still just tough.

However, if the reason he didn't get the position is because somebody
has fixed the game, as a result of some sort of idea of compensation
for some sort of perception of statistics, so that he cannot win in
spite of his being able to compete, that's not just tough, it's sexist
and basically wrong.  It is wrong whether it is part of some 50's plan
to keep women out of industry or part of some 90's plan to compensate,
in some indefinable statistician-inspired way, for some 50's plan.

-EMP