Discussion for article #231656
Right…because when I’m looking for all the evidence I’ll ever need to understand interactions and relationships between the genders, I go straight to the Big Book of Quotes from College Dudebros.
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Who says women don’t need feminism any more?
Did you have some traumatizing childhood experience that brought you down to earth?”
?!?!?!!?
Yes, she was repeatedly punched and kicked until she was as sweet as can be. Lord, stop smelling the solder.
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Hi, where’s your lab and how many hours do you get a week?
Why is it again we can’t keep women in the tech industry?
I find it fascinating that firms like Google and Facebook lobby to increase immigration so we can get the best and brightest programmers when HALF THE POPULATION OF THE U.S. is available but they shun them for more varied kinds of brogrammers.
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Don’t fight it, work it!
“The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.”
—from Muad’Dib, Family Commentaries by the Princess Irulan
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As an aging (male) MIT alum, when an undergraduate says Aero-Astro and Computer Science, the words that float in the back of my mind are at least as much “workaholic” as “genius” (possibly both). Not all that surprised that the 'Tute still has its share of clueless men. For goodness sake, please don’t be afraid of standing out as an engineer, no matter what you look like.
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Because you get 2 guys from India for the price of one guy from Iowa. Even factoring in lower wages for women in general (another problem in itself), it’s still 1.5 or more.
It’s all about the $. Even the companies that pretend not to be asshats, or maybe used to pretend, it’s all about the $.
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Not once they’ve immigrated here.
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As an MIT alum, I appreciate that this was a long joke at the PhD student’s expense :-).
My father went to MIT. Electrical Engineering, iirc. Great school.
Thank you, TPM, for proving humble brags are not just for Twitter anymore. Now, I look forward to your piece on how Amal Clooney overcomes her recent marriage to George to have been an internationally reknown, well-respected civil liberties and human rights attorney for most of her adult life.
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Hmmm. That’s a tough tightrope act to walk. I’m not familiar with a similar dichotomy that male engineering students must balance in order to earn respect.
Pretty much they just have to show up and abstain from scratching their crotch.
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Well since this author and the more piggish, and likely socially awkward of the male engineering students, will likely be competing for the same BCG and McKinsey jobs, I am curious if the author would consent to a gender-blind application process?
This kind of attitude was old 35 years ago when I went to college. It was old 20 years ago when the woman with romance-novel hair who worked down the hall was pretending not to show off her rat ring. And it’s still going on. Talk about slow progress.
Hard to believe this still happens in 2015.
And depressing, too.
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I once knew a woman who a dozen years ago won the Miss Florida USA pageant and went on to compete in the Miss USA pageant. Although she was an honors student in undergrad, an accomplished musician and equestrienne, and went on to get her medical degree, complete a fellowship in Maternal and Child Health, did some interesting research, and became a health policy advocate, some still treated her like a bimbo and an airhead.
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"I’ve considered dyeing my hair brown. "
Have you considered not dying your hair at all? That would give you more time for studying and working.
When I was at MIT, there was one female student with long platinum-blond hair. All eyes were upon her when she walked into 10-250 to see an LSC movie.
Whatever you do don’t say you go to school in “Boston” - people will think think that you are hiding Harvard.
Besides it isn’t true and has not been true since 1913 and you didn’t go there then.
It was simpler in my time. The guys could recognize every one of the hundred or so Tech Coeds. Now they would have to remember almost two thousand faces. Be nice to them when they have not remembered yours.
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