Anyways I promise to keep politics out of here going forward.
Right AFTER this post. 🙂
I'm only asking you because you're insightful and I haven't gotten an answer anywhere else.
So women and STEM. There was a thing where this university couldn't find enough women programmers for a convention. They tried their hardest, looked far and wide, but the numbers weren't there. That tells me two things;
1. Most women don't care enough to enroll in computer programming courses.
2. Someone who isn't a typical woman does care.
So who's driving this thing, really? Who says women not wanting to be code monkey's is unacceptable?
Same people demanding diversity hires in movies/TV, in management hires, basically in all areas where white collar white men are dominant is the target.
Unfortunately what these people don't understand or are unwilling to accept is that white collar white men are uniquely designed to be competent in those areas and are kind of useless in other areas.
That's why there are so many different people in the world, some are good at some things and not others and you find your niche and do your best, forced diversity includes everyone in every area but you're going to lose skill level doing it.
But I'm no expert, I didn't go to college to study these things, all I have is observation - experience - and common sense.
👆 Didn't disappoint.
And now as a show of good.faith here is something totally random and not GDF material;
Been thinking about a definitive Kyle Rayner story where he becomes Ion for the first time. Think Doctor Manhattan, he exists literally everywhere all the time. He never needs sleep, time and space are his play thing to mold as he sees fit. Even The Spectre admitted he could fix everything Hal wanted to and do it right, without any dangling strings or risking reality unraveling.
So he used that power and fixed things. He ended planetary wars, he ended famines, he had exact copies of himself at all crisis points that were all "him", not clones or constructs.
And then Superman talked to him, and patted him on the back, and said "I think you're doing too much."
Some drivel about free will, as if people should starve or die of thirst or disease unless they can fix it themselves.
It felt wrong at the time but I just glossed over it, but now... I think that was out of character. Completely.
The same guy who tries to help everyone, who tells more powerful beings with a Prime Directive against meddling "If you can help people, YOU HELP THEM!"
Yeah, Superman would say "Good job Kyle. Lemmie give you some pointers on doing more."