I'm a little curious as to where you got the 'smarter' from, as it applies to men, in that essay. Aside from standardized testing which has long since been shown to be biased toward caucasian males from high-income families whose native language is english.
Pulled it out of my ass probably. Sometimes though, I do really wonder about the 'smarter' thing. Maybe "better at some things." When you go to a school like MIT, sometimes you really gotta question the whole sexual differences and intelligence thing. I think every female who has gone there at some point in time has seriously questioned the issue.
That's not to say that that smart girls aren't as smart as smart boys, but you start noticing a difference when 75% of "fluffy" departments like Biology, Management, and Neuroscience are female, and 75% of "hardcore" departments like Physics, Mathematics, and Aero/Astro Engineering are male. It's also annoying when you realize that almost every girl in the Computer Science department has a boyfriend in that major too, and you want to hang out with them only realize they're busy working on their problem sets with their boyfriend (ie: leeching off them).
The issue of "smarter" is still under debate, and while I'm all for equality of the sexes, sometimes I really have to wonder whether all of it is social, or whether there is some sort of innate component.
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Date: 2005-08-18 12:58 am (UTC)From:Pulled it out of my ass probably. Sometimes though, I do really wonder about the 'smarter' thing. Maybe "better at some things." When you go to a school like MIT, sometimes you really gotta question the whole sexual differences and intelligence thing. I think every female who has gone there at some point in time has seriously questioned the issue.
That's not to say that that smart girls aren't as smart as smart boys, but you start noticing a difference when 75% of "fluffy" departments like Biology, Management, and Neuroscience are female, and 75% of "hardcore" departments like Physics, Mathematics, and Aero/Astro Engineering are male. It's also annoying when you realize that almost every girl in the Computer Science department has a boyfriend in that major too, and you want to hang out with them only realize they're busy working on their problem sets with their boyfriend (ie: leeching off them).
The issue of "smarter" is still under debate, and while I'm all for equality of the sexes, sometimes I really have to wonder whether all of it is social, or whether there is some sort of innate component.