07 Feb 06
Originally posted by catfoodtimCooking and breastfeeding simultaneously. Something I'd love to see a male earthling attempt 🙄
I've been really irritated today by an idiotic IT support guy who agreed with the women in the office that men cannot multi-task.
Am I the only man in this whole bloody world who finds such sweeping generalisations offensive? Some men can, some men can't. In the same way that some women can and some can't.
He tried to tell me it was evolution. Wh ...[text shortened]... ?
Is there a spurious evolutionary reason to back up this nonsense that I'm not aware of?
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07 Feb 06
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Originally posted by aging blitzerYep, and without turning the map upside down (or any other angle) depending on direction of travel.
I'd like to see a woman single-task when the task is reading a map...
Saying that, my mum is very good at map reading. 🙂
EDIT: In comparison to my dad, who is hopeless. So it really is just another stereotype.
07 Feb 06
Originally posted by Amaurote[b]spatially - A word that sits awkwardly in my head.
The better connected your left and right brain, the more likely you are to be unable to tell left from right, or be spatially retarded. I don't think that's necessarily something people should be keen to see as an evolutionary advantage. Men and women are different, not better and worse.
07 Feb 06
steriotypes, when true, are surely saying that if you were to take population A then on average they are better at task X than population B. This does not automatically mean, as some people would take it, that all people in group A are better at task X than all people in group B, or even that the best person in group A is better than the best person in group B. To me it seams that the root of arguments about steriotypes is that one person assumes a steriotype to be true of all people from their limited (or percieved) experience, where another person see it to not be absolutely true (or even sees it as absolutely untrue) based on their own experiences or even based on their perception of themselves as not fitting into the steriotype.
07 Feb 06
Originally posted by catfoodtimHi. First thing is to calm down! You are right, some men can and some cannot. However as a generalisation, more men struggle with it. If you don't then just be happy with that!
I've been really irritated today by an idiotic IT support guy who agreed with the women in the office that men cannot multi-task.
Am I the only man in this whole bloody world who finds such sweeping generalisations offensive? Some men can, some men can't. In the same way that some women can and some can't.
He tried to tell me it was evolution. Wh ...[text shortened]... ?
Is there a spurious evolutionary reason to back up this nonsense that I'm not aware of?
07 Feb 06
Originally posted by ReaperIn the office I work at and the restaurant that I work at the men can multitask better than the women. I don't think that it is a male/female thing. It is just one of those things, either you can or you can't.
Hi. First thing is to calm down! You are right, some men can and some cannot. However as a generalisation, more men struggle with it. If you don't then just be happy with that!
07 Feb 06
Originally posted by CliffLandinYou could be right. I don't know. It could be an occupational thing?
In the office I work at and the restaurant that I work at the men can multitask better than the women. I don't think that it is a male/female thing. It is just one of those things, either you can or you can't.