Mary - is this the post you mean?
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Originally Posted by Mary Meriam
Quincy, is it because women don't have the emotional or social resources to deal with many rejections? How much rejection is it possible to stand before you give up? It seems to me that men have a jolly ol' boys network that keeps their spirits and hopes high. Centuries of support in every way. All one has to do is read a little Virginia Woolf, like A Room of One's Own, to see the whole picture. Sure things have changed for the better since then, but they haven't changed enough yet.
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This "addresses" my stats by providing a reference to an 80 year old book by a woman who lived in an exquisitely stratified and obsolete society - and an imaginary "ol' boys network" - in response to a serious attempt to look at what is happening
now.
I don't even understand your point. Are you saying that the
statistics are correct, they demonstrate that women aren't equipped emotionally to deal with rejection, and that therefore they shouldn't expect to be published or honored as frequently as men? Christ, I hope not! Or is your point,
yes, we are poor fragile creatures, and you should take that into account and lean over backwards to give us equal recognition even though we can't deal with the process of qualifying for that recognition? Double-Christ - that's even worse!!
What is your point? I'm lost.