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by ferrumfist
1508 days ago
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It's all about numbers. There are just fewer women in general who play competitive online games. There are a variety of reasons why, but the most obvious one is that the online multiplayer scene isn't particularly welcoming to women. Granted, EVERYONE is flamed in online multiplayer games, but women are regularly subjected to graphic and violent sexual comments. On top of that, there could be higher societal expectations placed on women that discourage women from "no-lifing" a game compared to men. Tons of women play video games these days, but online multiplayer games are still quite a bit of a boy's club. It seems like a similar situation with engineering schools/jobs: it's dominated by awkward men and remains so due to a negative feedback loop. |
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I know a woman who works in HR at a large engineering adjacent organization and I'd say (in my experience dealing with her outside of work) she consistently makes mistakes in dealing with awkward people (such as attempting flattery and making people feel worse.) Since non-awkward people get to define what "empathy" means and because awkward people are defined deficient fundamentally, she and people in her profession systematically erase these mistakes. (We did what we were told to do in school, what is on the checklist, what the diversity plan says "empathy" is, ...)
She probably gets good performance reviews but she finds her job really stressful. It might be intrinsic that the job is stressful (it is dealing with other people's bullshit after all) but it might be that she's not really that good at it. She follows the checklists that other people give her, but nobody really asked her customers what they think.
It could be that professions like that could use a good dose of awkward people or at least people who can have real empathy for awkward people instead of a show of empathy that's directed at impressing somebody else.