Re: Male Domination of Philosphy
You misunderstand me … and I misunderstood the purpose of this thread topic …
I guess what I am saying is … Is it male “domination” of philosophy or just male “majority” - are women side lined in philosophy or are women choosing to do other things? By encouraging women to become as populous as men in philosophy and programming are we trying to suggest that there is an innate universal sense of balance in equal numbers? Then the question could be asked back … why are we encouraging women to do anything at all … why can’t we just let them be?
100 years ago is no different to now … we are still trying to influence each other … before those influences were towards another norm - now another … what makes any norm better or worse? Is voting and employment and desire to study philosophy all linked to the same phenomenon or all equally attached to our rights as humans? If so how so?
If a person chooses to do something that others see as oppression is that person who chose to do it - oppressed or were they free to choose? Furthermore, by giving our own idea of right more importance and imposing that on others so that we “encourage” them to fit our idea of fairness - how is that any more free than one who chooses to be subdued?
Let people choose - but don’t require it from them … if we encourage anything - we must be sure that what we are encouraging them to is better from their point of view not ours …
I agree discrimination is wrong … but we can’t look at numbers of gender representation alone and conclude discrimination is afoot.