So? I hear white men can't jump. So only 2% of USA Swimming's membership is black... what percent of the NBA is white? Quoting statistics like this as if they're something wrong is part of the problem. Not everyone wants to do/be/know the same things, and this kind of statistic makes it seem like that means there's something wrong with either them or "the system" for not being the same as everyone else.
Broad generalizations like this always set my teeth on edge. "Women aren't good at math, so there aren't 'enough' women engineers." Bullshit. I was in the top math classes from jr. high through undergrad and the women in my classes kept up just fine. If they CHOSE not to be engineers, then who is anyone to tell them they were wrong to do so? They were certainly capable of it.
As a side note, in the pool at my old apartment complex over 70% of the people in the pool were black children. The white kids just went there to lay out in the sun.
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Date: 2008-05-02 03:30 am (UTC)Broad generalizations like this always set my teeth on edge. "Women aren't good at math, so there aren't 'enough' women engineers." Bullshit. I was in the top math classes from jr. high through undergrad and the women in my classes kept up just fine. If they CHOSE not to be engineers, then who is anyone to tell them they were wrong to do so? They were certainly capable of it.
As a side note, in the pool at my old apartment complex over 70% of the people in the pool were black children. The white kids just went there to lay out in the sun.