Quote Originally Posted by inumbra View Post
women aren't necessarily less discriminatory towards women than men are. i think the main thing i'm seeing is that you don't really see a systemic problem. the system creates these issues... the individuals within it learn the system and perpetuate it. although the privileged benefit most on average, that doesn't mean everyone with more privileged status is an evil discriminator and everyone with less privileged status is free of all possible bias. really, most people are just people, and i think a good 2/3 of them at least are probably well meaning. as i was trying to point out earlier, this problem is a lot bigger than the individual.

also @Hitta, if the stuff you mentioned is considered in the hiring process and used to reject an applicant it's actually illegal because it is discrimination based on gender. so it's not just that i'm saying it's discrimination.

see http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/ and http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/practices/i...tal_status.cfm

If you could change something, legally speaking... what would you change? What do you want the system to do differently? Do you want laws passed or something that prohibits these "discriminatory" policies? I can promise you the repercussions of doing this would be substantial.

I'm going to flat out say that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, imo, was the worst possible thing that could have happened for African Americans, and I actually think it's one of the reasons that they have been pigeon holed into poverty.