He's Ba-ack!

[drwex]

A week away plus I mostly don't read on weekends means I'm way behind. I might catch up, or not. Please link me to things you think I should read.

In exchange, here's an interesting link from 538 - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-do-men-think-it-means-to-be-a-man/

A survey of 1600 men on what they think it takes to be a man. Run by two women. Data on github so you can play with it yourself if you like. Very 21st century.

This:

A majority of men in the workplace say they haven’t rethought their on-the-job behavior in the wake of #MeToo

might be the scariest thing I've read in a while. Along with the suggestion that there are "no advantages" to being a man at work it makes me feel like we've got a really long way to go.

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Thinking of this from another angle

[c1]

Along with the suggestion that there are "no advantages" to being a man at work

Correlation doesn't always equal causation. There is an implicit bias toward the wealthy in this country. If you don't have a six (or seven, eight, or nine) figure income, 538's datapoint could also indicate a level of despair for one's overall lot in life -- a "we're all being screwed by the 0.01%" mentality. I know I feel that way a lot of the time.

Money equates very directly to agency in America. If you don't have it, your opinion doesn't matter. At work, the size of your paycheck directly correlates with how much your opinion matters to your boss, your boss's boss, et al. You say something in a meeting, and although it could be word-for-word the same thing as what the janitor said in the lobby a few minutes earlier, your voice gets heard over the janitor's.