http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/women-agriculture-barriers-1.3878774
I seen this article floating around the other day and agreed with enough of what it was saying that I shared it on Facebook. My only caption to go along with it was "Lots of good points here."
Since then I've been fairly regularly entertained. No women have replied, they've just liked the post, as have a number of men. A couple of men commented along the lines that they've seen similar happen although it isn't as common as some would like to think.
Then there are a couple others who obviously didn't take the time to read the article and who, right from the get go, almost seem to be on the defensive. To the point that tonight I've been told it's in my head. I'm not even the one that wrote it, I just said I agreed with some of it LOL It's amused me greatly that some men are that upset by it that they've lowered to personal attacks (This wouldn't normally surprise me online other than the fact that these are people I know.)
Am I normally inundated with sexist discrimination? I wouldn't say so. The most common one would be comments along the lines of "You farm by yourself?" and "You don't have a husband?" which I usually apply more to the old school views that most women get married, not go through life single with cows. I don't take offense that they don't think I'm capable as I don't assume that's what they're thinking at all. And wouldn't matter even if they did, I was quite proud to fill in my census this year as a single, female under 30 running a farm. Even one as small as mine. What's to be offended about?
I could also honestly say that out of numerous agriculture jobs and applications, there's only one I can legitly say had sexist undertones. I could theorize in moments of grumpiness that others did as well but there's no proof there, just the one was blatant.
More often than not I've found that such comments are born more from surprise and interest than negative thoughts and discrimination. And it's not like they're just from men either. Men for the most part don't think to ask if I'm single or how many kids I have, not really a male point of interest, that's all female judgement LOL
So in summation of my rambling, late evening post, I guess that because I feel this way about the discrimination that does occur within the Ag industry - and any other industry - I am extra entertained by the select few getting huffy over it. Bet they would reply that I'm discriminating against them!
I seen this article floating around the other day and agreed with enough of what it was saying that I shared it on Facebook. My only caption to go along with it was "Lots of good points here."
Since then I've been fairly regularly entertained. No women have replied, they've just liked the post, as have a number of men. A couple of men commented along the lines that they've seen similar happen although it isn't as common as some would like to think.
Then there are a couple others who obviously didn't take the time to read the article and who, right from the get go, almost seem to be on the defensive. To the point that tonight I've been told it's in my head. I'm not even the one that wrote it, I just said I agreed with some of it LOL It's amused me greatly that some men are that upset by it that they've lowered to personal attacks (This wouldn't normally surprise me online other than the fact that these are people I know.)
Am I normally inundated with sexist discrimination? I wouldn't say so. The most common one would be comments along the lines of "You farm by yourself?" and "You don't have a husband?" which I usually apply more to the old school views that most women get married, not go through life single with cows. I don't take offense that they don't think I'm capable as I don't assume that's what they're thinking at all. And wouldn't matter even if they did, I was quite proud to fill in my census this year as a single, female under 30 running a farm. Even one as small as mine. What's to be offended about?
I could also honestly say that out of numerous agriculture jobs and applications, there's only one I can legitly say had sexist undertones. I could theorize in moments of grumpiness that others did as well but there's no proof there, just the one was blatant.
More often than not I've found that such comments are born more from surprise and interest than negative thoughts and discrimination. And it's not like they're just from men either. Men for the most part don't think to ask if I'm single or how many kids I have, not really a male point of interest, that's all female judgement LOL
So in summation of my rambling, late evening post, I guess that because I feel this way about the discrimination that does occur within the Ag industry - and any other industry - I am extra entertained by the select few getting huffy over it. Bet they would reply that I'm discriminating against them!
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