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In reply to the discussion: Why Women Are Bullies At Work [View all]antigone382
(3,682 posts)Say, a different race, or a member of the GLBT community? Would that be OK?
And if those experiences failed to line up with one of the key findings of the actual research report on which this less-than-scholarly article is based, which found that overall, 62% of bullies were men, would that handful of Internet anecdotes outweigh a study carried out according to scientific principles?
And if the actual article, deficient as it is, described a situation where woman-on-woman bullying occurs precisely because women feel vulnerable due to their lack of power relative to men, their fear of having negative stereotypes invoked against them, and their beliefs that other women are more vulnerable targets than men, would that play a role in how you apply the article's findings to your personal experience?
Would any of this play a role in how you interpret a thread that very quickly accumulated a collection of opinions that women are meaner, more conniving, and more malicious coworkers and bosses than their male counterparts--even when the actual scientific evidence suggests precisely the opposite?
In a context where a U.S. lawmaker just today asserted that pregnancy from rape is not a big problem; in a context where a team of scientists in Ireland just concluded that a woman there died because saving her life was less important than keeping her dying fetus in her body even as it poisoned here; in a context where just in the last few weeks multiple elected US officials have asserted that women are mysteries that don't even understand themselves, and that the "male brain" is more rational and more capable of rejecting "free stuff" than the female brain, could it possibly be concluded that we live in a profoundly sexist society which systematically devalues and oppresses women? Would you consider that possibility under any circumstances?