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How would women react if men were to say the lack of female representation in STEM is “self-imposed”

To be fair, people are saying this all the time. Look up a Lemmy post about struggles of women. Ok, that was a rhetoric task because you won't find any with a significant amount of upvotes. But if you do on another platform, there will be plenty of people arguing that women should care for this themselves. Or discussing how bad it is for men, instead.

Glad to see both sides argued here, both legitimate points. Sorry for my pointless comment.

No, it ain't sad at all. It's infuriating. Men aren't just having these problems. They are perpetuating them after having created them.

It's the misogyny, sure. But also the xenophobia, homophobia, racism, religious extremism, warmongering, gun humping, and whatever else makes these dudes vote for the most conservative and/or biggest asshole they can find.

The same crap makes other people, including the women in their lives, not want to be around them. And of course that government they voted in ain't going to offer any assistance as whatever calamities they've forced themselves to face alone, inevitably hit.