Is much of gender discrimination simply in our heads?

Question

Discrimination affects everyone at some point in time; nevertheless we enjoy a reasonable lifestyle in the Western nations and largely overcome these obstacles. So why is there so much insipid "Woe is me" around? Look no further than this forum to see evidence of this.

I see women AND men who are never tired of the daily diatribe of how hard the opposite s*x makes life for them. They are victims, to be pitied, and hope someone will validate them on YA so they can confirm that they really are a victim.

I have always found this completely distasteful on the part of women, and now see more men than ever joining the pity party, particularly on the forum, on benign issues and ridiculous generalizations.

Perhaps it is time to re-evaluate the paranoia and check whether others are really out to get you, no?

Answer 1

Mental discrimination only exists on gws.  It's all bulls*** and reality doesn't exist here.

Answer 2

Yes a lot of people on here especially some of the men, just come on here to rant about 'why are women al goldiggers' etc etc and this is it's own form of discrimination. Hating a group of people because they have been bitten by a few members is prejudice.

But there are still valid cases where people are being discriminated against, dscrimination being hate/negative behaviour for only the reason that they are a particular gender.

Prejudism is not acceptable whether it's towards a gender, age, disbility or racial group.

Answer 3

well,i think a lot of it is in your head, but some of it may not be, i mean someone could have been abused by the opposite s*x or made fun of by, so they might feel hate toward them or something, but i agree with you about the re evaluating

Answer 4

Most of it is in the head.

Answer 5

Women earn less then men because they aren't as good or dedicated of worker and because they take lower paying jobs (this example proliferates many gender issues) -- is that generalization all that ridiculous?

Answer 6

This is how it all got started in the first place; sometimes the victim card get overplayed.

Answer 7

No- I don't believe so.

I have had people tell me, I could not do jobs because I am a woman.

please answer my question on asian racism.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 8

I couldn't agree with you more.

Answer 9

I don't really see as many women doing a "woe is me" act. They're typically here for discussion. How often do you really see a woman saying "Men are ruining everything!" on here? It's generally anti-feminist men and women on here wallowing in a cesspool of their own devising.

Answer 10

No miss. Regardless of what you may perceive, most of  the dicrimination roots itself in the media. And you know as well as I do most of the information in our heads is from the media. Thus, the media should evaluate the paranoia, not us. Further, whatever you came here to confirm, has failed miss..

Answer 11

Agreed, there is a large proportion of individuals in western countries with huge victimisation complexes.

It doesn't show they're victims, but they sure think they are

But why? Victim implies you're helpless and just lying there needing to be saved.. they have a voice, they have rights.

It's insulting to those women in third world countries who truly are victims