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• Ada Lovelace - Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 11:32 AM EDT
• Ada, Countess of Lovelace - Authored by: Wol on Thursday, June 07 2012 @ 01:18 PM EDT

Unfortunately the Societal blindness is all over. On the specific topic of sexism: it's on both sides of the fence.

To try and eliminate the blindness from only one side has never historically worked very well. You end up with the pendulum swinging wildly to the other side and just as much harm being committed - only in the reverse.

To see this in action, all you have to do is have two children who are fighting. Each hitting the other. Then you tell one child that what they are doing is ok, and the other child to stop.

How many times do you think child X will hit child Y before child Y chooses to ignore you telling him/her that hitting is wrong and hit back? I doubt it'll take more then a hit or two.

Caveat: this does not speak to whether or not sexism in one direction is more extreme then in the other direction or more common or more whatever. It simply speaks to the reality:

If you don't target the harm all around, it's a very long, slow process for Society to improve.

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