Not really a post with links, more of a rant, but... I'm currently trying to get "back into" the academic world, because it seems that life is dragging me that way again. But then I look around and see the massive gender gap, and it puts me off again.
I know multiple women who've got engineering scholarships, and a significant number who are younger than me who are currently doing their PhDs. I know three Rhodes scholars, two of whom are women. Almost every woman from my finishing year has at least a Masters, which is crazy to me. Combined with scholarships, exchanges and "topping the class", I've been surrounded by female high achievers for more than a decade.
And then there's a girl I know who didn't even finish school, yet who somehow gets to work in Antarctica regularly, and represent the Air Force at airshows, despite being a civilian, and not even a pilot. Because she's "model pretty" (literally a fitness model), and "charismatic", and "works hard" (she's basically a hustler. Though I still have absolutely no idea how she got to where she is).
Meanwhile, as for the guys I know..? I can only think of two who have even started their PhD. Several I know didn't even get a degree (like me, unfortunately), or, in a couple of cases, didn't even finish school. At least three committed suicide. I've seen multiple men I know have breakdowns in the "academic world" (as did I), and drop out. Yet I barely ever saw that happen to the women I knew, and if it did, they always bounced back. Sometimes even scoring cushy government jobs in completely unrelated fields (like, actresses becoming heads of government departments, for fuck's sake), afterwards.
And yet you can't even get a relationship here (much like the US), if you don't have the six figures, stable job and decent "bachelor pad", even if you are in reasonable shape and over six foot. Because there's always some other dude who has all or most of that who can take your place...
This is just so... Blatant, that it is really bringing me down. Combined with woke bureaucracy (mandatory "consent training" for one. Enforced smartphone use for another), and the false allegations I detailed last year, I'm just so... Fucking over it.
No wonder men are dropping out of "mainstream society" at the rate that they/we are. The deck is completely stacked against us, at this point.
/endrant
Crazy, innit? I’m a biologist and even I have classes like that. Which is absurd, but they’re determined to force it into everything…
Except my pure maths courses, which, at least when I took them, remained relatively un-pozzed. But yeah, anything less “hard” than that seems to be completely infused with ideology at this point, unfortunately…
This is in Qld, too, so… Yeah.
Cell biology, yes, but I work in the marine, botanical and zoological (animal) spaces, so it's not too difficult for them to still shove it down our throats, while incorporating it into "official" dogma/curriculum...
Re comp sci, yeah, you're not wrong, although my GIS classes still managed to bring in quite a lot of woke environmental/post-colonial shit, at least partly because the teacher and department head was a Cape Malay South African immigrant with a massive chip on her shoulder, lol...
South African first-gen immigrants are... "Fun", to say the least. As I'm sure you're well aware.
I would say the easiest way to explain it is "Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders 'sustainably' used these resources, until whitey came along and fucked it up"
So effectively yes.
We get a lot of "Indigenous knowledge about fauna", and similar shit. And the "Indigenous calendars" re plants and the like are always fun.
But yeah, noble savage but woke, essentially. I think I've been told what great "land managers" they were (which is patently untrue, lol. They destroyed the landscape with fire extremely effectively. Not to mention how many species they drove extinct themselves) at least two dozen times, by now. And we're constantly reminded that we are "on stolen land".
It's all rather tiresome.