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Okay, I'm willing to agree that there is definately some misandry within portions of the feminist movement, and conspiricy theories of some evil patriachy is stupid, but there is definately a glass ceiling in the techie fields. It's possible to smash through it, but it often involves behaving like a raving b***h. It's getting better over time, but I still have to be a lot nastier then my male peers to get them to listen to me consistantly. It's really annoying, and it's turning me into Alice from Dilbert, which kind of freaky.

Men do tend to have a higher level of natural aptitude in the field, though. Human sexual dimorphism actually does extend to cognitive abilities. The men you're working with are just not used to the idea of women being competent in the field, and it's really not their fault. They haven't been given any reason to be because, quite frankly, it's true.

Don't even try picking out some hidden agenda because it just ain't there.

That is very interesting. I was unaware of this discrepency. So Iran and KSA are unique in actually making a habit of enforcing this thing. Also, it dilutes further from Mecca. I would like to further explore the sociological forces which may be responsible for this phenomenon.

They don't take it for granted, or they would not have converted. This simply stands to reason. People who convert to Christianity can be just as goofy. I think it's a universal. Is it? I'm unsure. It seems to be. By the way, I'm judging from your tone that you realize I meant well, and suddenly I'm inclined to apologize for the dramatics. I think I have some PTSD from dealing with people who are disinterested in having a helpful conversation.

I am thinking that there were a few things that I did not quite understand about your culture. Disabuse me at your pleasure, ol' chap.

Concealed weapons. You may have more chance of being struck by lightening than even witnessing a school shooting, but the schools are rabidly paranoid due to a few notorious incidents. I think it comes from Americans having a few loose wires in their heads. Kuh-fu-soo say, "Do not attribute to discrimination what more likely emerges from some goofy, undereducated b***h having a corncob up her butt."

A minority in a country so densely populated still makes you a sizable population, I would figure.

By the way, if I recall correctly, many Bosnian women don't give a hoo-hah about Shariah Law, and they have their own equivalent of Prada there. I knew a young woman from there, once.

Oh, marriage has lost much of its seriousness here in many parts of the US, and people wonder why they're suffering from alarming rates of clinical depression. Oh, perhaps it arises from us being a culture that is incapable of planning ahead for anything, doesn't bother to think decisions through, upholds impulse and whim above all mores, and seems to think that self-control is a sin. Do you think that might have something to do with it? Eh? Perhaps it's because we're in a culture that prioritizes social bullying leaps and bounds over anything seriously useful? Oh, don't buy anything I say, though. I'm just suggesting that someone should take responsibility somewhere along the line. It's none of my business. Noooooo. It's always someone else's business than Griff's business.

Do excuse me. I should have known better than this.

Isn't Saudi Arabia pretty notorious for human rights violations? I'm uncertain. You would know more about it than myself. Why are women there not allowed to drive? Wouldn't this make life abnormally difficult for single mothers or women who lack any interest in marriage, sex, or family?

Come off it. Christians are just as shrill in boasting of how many people they've converted to Christianity. Everywhere I go, I see some plaque or other proclaiming how some foreigner converted to Christianity during a "tent revival" and became popular, successful, and well-liked. Furthermore, my grandmother regularly reminds me that she is going to have a nice house and a beautiful automobile when she gets to Heaven. My, what a giving fellow! You'd think he was Santa Claus! Oh, dude, if you had been around some of the shallow, foolish swill that I have always up-put with, then you would understand some of my reflexive attitudes toward religion. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. It's materialistic poison.

The burqa is one thing. Structuring a society around imaginary gender roles suggests something amiss as far as I can understand.

Then, from henceforth, I will be your pupil in all things Islam. It doesn't pay for me to comment on things when I don't really know anything about them. It really defeats the purpose of me doing so, I think. The only thing that I know of Islam is the testimony of a young Bosnian lass (apparently upper-middle class, since she travelled extensively) who loved reminding people of how amusing she found Western perceptions of Bosnia and the Middle East.

Naw, that wouldn't work. How about gender reassignments, Griff?