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Myth vs reality: women and girls' timidity or real risk taking? : Comments

By Jocelynne Scutt, published 20/4/2011

There is no truth to the story that the glass ceiling is partly held in place by women's aversion to risk.

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FS
Well I feel sorry for you that the only women you have known have led you to the conclusion that all women 'turn bad'. Have you, however ever thought, it might be you that influences how people react to you. I don't know you, and maybe you are a basically decent person, but someone who espouses to be Christian and then makes a blatantly unkind and false claim about women is not seeing the world how it really is but only in terms of your obviously bad experiences. We are all human but in the end it is your happiness that is limited and that is sad.

Your comments are no different to ardent feminists who believe that all men are violent rapists and would rape if they could get away with it. Do all men turn into wife beaters just because a few do?

I generally don't respond to your comments FS because how do you speak to someone who has so little faith in the opposite sex. You simply can't argue with someone who not only thinks they have all the answers, but ones that involve the exclusion and demonising of a whole sex.

There is little to fear from Communism these days so I am not sure why you act as if we are under imminent attack. Perhaps you are older and still think in terms of the old 'reds under the beds'.

In the early days the movement to emancipate women was strong among the educated and Conservative classes first. It was much longer before working class men and women could improve their lot.

I would be interested to know what sort of role you see for women in your perfect world? If you could design your utopia how would it look in terms of gender roles?
Posted by pelican, Saturday, 30 April 2011 6:16:03 PM
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