Gender issues

[andrewducker]

Discussing gender in society last night (as you do) and the fact that it's hard for women to be perceived as "just a writer", they're pretty much always referred to as a "woman writer". You get "Football" and Women's football", "Tennis" and "Ladies Tennis".

How long does it take for women to have equal rights in society before it ceases to be a topic of conversation that a particular writer/politician/musician happens to be a woman?

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Catch 33 1/3rd

[andrewducker]

Yup, it does cut both ways. Women treating women differently are seen as a negative thing just as much as men treating women are. Nobody likes to feel left out or discriminated against. The whole theme of revenge is something that needs to be disposed of, if we worked to make things ideal rather than to reverse the imbalance we might actually get somewhere idyllic.

I'm afraid my MUSH experience is fairly old and simple (about 10 years old, thinking about it. God, I feel old). I'd love the chance to get back into that kind of thing again, especially as I've been missing programming since I moved into an IT manager slot. I'm a programmer by inclination, but I've been kinda forced into a support/network admin post and it's grating on me (it's not at all creative, unlike programming). I'll be happy to offer advice if I can be helpful, but unfortunately I doubt it. Should you want to hire me, I can work for cheap if the job's interesting :->