<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">It's often not so much a compliment as it is an admission of (#1) the remarking person's lack of world experience or (#2) a man's delight that there's a woman in his subculture, presumably someone he can hit on. �#2 often entails #1.�</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com" target="_blank">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I always kinda wondered why I cringe when someone is astonishedly pleased that as a woman I [code|weld|CAD|etc]. �That ought to be a compliment, right? �Excellent discussion here. �Go Sci-Am!<br>
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Subject: � � � �Some interesting thoughts on "benevolent sexism"<br>
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Lots of really good thoughts here, esp. comparing obituaries and the<br>
response to "I fucking love science" revealing her gender:<br>
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<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/04/02/benevolent-sexism/" target="_blank">http://blogs.<u></u>scientificamerican.com/<u></u>psysociety/2013/04/02/<u></u>benevolent-sexism/</a><br>
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