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Virginia Tech engineering professor discusses gender-based violence in STEM fields
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2015/04/virginia-tech-engineering-professor-discusses-gender-based-violence-in-stem-fields ^

Posted on 04/07/2015 5:38:47 AM PDT by outpostinmass2

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To: outpostinmass2

Nonsense. Probably just the opposite.
I recall one very attractive female engineer who walked around barefoot at work (what man could get away with that?), who pursued and bedded as many good looking male co-workers as she could. I didn’t fall into that category unfortunately!


21 posted on 04/07/2015 6:10:39 AM PDT by barefoot_hiker
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To: outpostinmass2
Most of my fellow nerds in my day were overjoyed that a woman was in the class or in the labs. At Purdue, the rather-average-to-below-average looking girls were put on pedestals that many never came back down from (especially since they had never been up there before). It was a fun (yet depressing) social experiment to observe.

(Depressing because suddenly I couldn't even get ugly girls anymore!!)

But violence against them? By other STEM male students? No way on earth. Any geek driving away the few females around would have been subject to all kinds of creative technological hell.

22 posted on 04/07/2015 6:10:46 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: outpostinmass2

Shut up and teach!


23 posted on 04/07/2015 6:14:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro (It IS as BAD as you think and they ARE out to get you.)
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To: Iron Munro

This is what she does teach.


24 posted on 04/07/2015 6:15:33 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: outpostinmass2

I’d like to report on anti-Religious murder in the Humanities Departments, specifically African-American Studies Centers’ Lesbian and Questioning Units among Capricorns. The Virgos are fine.


25 posted on 04/07/2015 6:16:45 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Support Principle: http://www.tedcruz.org)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I’ve never seen it as a man in the field but have gotten very close to many females.

It does seem to eventually happen to every attractive co-worker but only in situations where nobody can see or prove anything. Engineers aren’t dumb after all

I’ve never heard of straight up rape but groping, holding and/or sticking hands down clothes does happen.

A small percentage of men are assholes and eventually a lady in our open society will end up alone with one. I tell them to never be alone around someone they aren’t familiar with. That’s good advice anywhere, not just in STEM. It’s just like not walking the streets with a pack of $100s hanging out.


26 posted on 04/07/2015 6:18:07 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: outpostinmass2

All in all the feminists final goal here is to put men in their place permenantly, even if it means genocide of men.

They want to lock all men up for just staring at a woman, welcome to the new brave world were sex will be outlawed and procreation will be done with test tubes.

The end game here is to destroy all men from the face of the world.


27 posted on 04/07/2015 6:21:36 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress)
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To: varyouga

I’m sure these things happen just as frequently, if not more, in non-STEM fields. Of course, STEM will be demonized because it’s male-heavy.


28 posted on 04/07/2015 6:28:48 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: Teacher317

I remember my Circuits class at LSU. I was the only chick in a class of 300. Good times, good times.


29 posted on 04/07/2015 6:30:51 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: rbg81

Statistics are a funny thing and it’s impossible to say more/less.

I think there is just a percentage of men who can’t control themselves and eventually the opportunity arises where they lose it.

Has nothing to do with STEM or anything else. Just a matter of someone like that being alone with an attractive female. And STEM does seem susceptible to that due to a high possibility of working late hours alone without any surveillance.


30 posted on 04/07/2015 6:48:14 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: AppyPappy

You are FOS.


31 posted on 04/07/2015 6:54:57 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: RFEngineer

I’m just telling you.


32 posted on 04/07/2015 6:57:10 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: varyouga

Possibly. I work in STEM too (computer science). In my field, lots of men have trouble getting up the nerve just to talk to an attractive woman.


33 posted on 04/07/2015 7:09:07 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81

Good insight, and very true.


34 posted on 04/07/2015 7:09:44 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: AppyPappy

Thinking back, we had a few Middle Eastern guys who probably thought that way.

The farm boy crew (of which I was a founding member) made it quite clear we protect our own, and have access to pork.

But after freshmen year they all were gone to other programs. Our bigger issue was some of the girls who thought that by smiling we would do their work for them.


35 posted on 04/07/2015 7:10:10 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: AppyPappy

“I’m just telling you.”

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Seriously, do you really think engineers come from cultures that don’t respect women? Why just this morning when I told my wife what you had posted, I interrupted her cooking and cleaning duties, took a slight pause from my usual routine of berating her and ordered her to laugh with me at what you wrote.

You should find whomever told you that and give them a wedgie.


36 posted on 04/07/2015 7:12:14 AM PDT by RFEngineer
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To: outpostinmass2

The feminists false rape charges or false assault charges is a means to justify the ends and their final solution for men.

Hope fair minded women wake up in time to realize they are being lied to before it’s to late for men.


37 posted on 04/07/2015 7:15:01 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe Keystone Pipe like Project : build it already Congress)
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To: nascarnation

This is a classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETegyBzAQnc


38 posted on 04/07/2015 7:22:10 AM PDT by rbg81
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To: rbg81

Nice vid!

(Google knows I’m old, I’m getting adverts for Del Webb retirement homes at the beginning of these now, LOL)


39 posted on 04/07/2015 7:27:51 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: RFEngineer

He is probably talking about Indians or something. Student visa types.


40 posted on 04/07/2015 7:50:22 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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