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Re: Girls in Engineering- Comic that explains it all

You know, David, I do want to respond to your post seriously, now that I've gotten my snark in.

You're right that it can take society a long time to change its opinion on things Society as a whole needs lots of things to happen before something becomes a cultural norm. But that doesn't mean individual people can't start thinking differently and progressively and helping this change along. In fact, it can make life a lot better for the people you interact with every day - like the women on your team.

So, since you were so willing to share with us all the reasons "society" isn't ready for women to be doing men's work, I ask you, what's preventing *you* from being okay with it, or thinking it's something perfectly normal and not unusual? What will it take for you to be able to stop saying "weird, the girls were doing the manly work" and just say "the girls were doing great work"?
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