No one else is going to build the life you want for you. This is your game. Make a pact to be in it with yourself for the long haul, as your own supportive friend at every step along the way. What does a knock-the-ball-out-of-the-park life look like for you? Start envisioning it. Start doing things that make you gasp and get the adrenalin flowing. But please, just be a little more of an arrogant idiot.
You know those guys around the office who share their opinions without thinking, who rally everyone around their big, often unformed ideas? Be more like them. Even if just a bit. And based on the sex, the world makes assumptions. Facebook Twitter Linkedin EMail. Start a Conversation. Follow us on. Living and entertainment iDiva MensXP. All rights reserved. For reprint rights: Times Syndication Service.
You know it too. But to me, adding credibility to these stereotypes about women gives artillery to our detractors who use this sort of information to reinforce why women will never become CEOs. This sort of information—putting numbers to some of the most base and yes, shameful behavior of the fairer sex—acts as nothing short of cinder blocks chained to our ankles as we try to rise in the world.
So why would a female researcher be responsible for putting this out there? The hope of revealing prejudices to change behavior involves something called a confirmatory bias, she says, or the human proclivity towards seeking information or evidence to support a viewpoint we already hold.
Last night over drinks I toyed with this same question. And worse, if I were to write their story, would I be doing women a disservice by calling it how I see it?
But enough about me. What do you think? Should the admittedly sometimes true bad behavior of women be studied and publicized in hopes it helps us mend our bitchy and supposedly evolutionarily-rooted ways? Or by lending gravitas to these uncomfortable truths are we doing more harm than good?
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