{"id":3420,"date":"2023-08-22T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:22:00","slug":"segregated-spaces-do-make-some-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/22\/segregated-spaces-do-make-some-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Segregated spaces do make some sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that when you mix men and women, you get sexual tension. <\/p>\n<p>Some people seem to think that we&#8217;re supposed to be sexless individuals who treat other people as &#8220;people&#8221; only and not as women and men with desires and interests. And then when people act like real people &#8212; who actually are men and women, with desires and interests &#8212; there&#8217;s this amazement, like &#8220;Gosh, who could have predicted that?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>This is not to excuse rude behavior, but simply to point out that if you walk through a bad neighborhood with $100 bills attached to your clothing, you will probably get robbed, and when you mix men and women, the men will probably try to pick up the women. That&#8217;s just the way it is, and it&#8217;s pretty stupid to think otherwise. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90936569\/linkedin-women-unwanted-romantic-messages-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unwanted romantic and sexual advances on LinkedIn discourage women from using the site<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past there were separate spaces for men and women. There were downsides to that, but there was also at least <i>some<\/i> sense to it. It lessens some of these kinds of problems. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve decided that it&#8217;s best to let men and women mix more freely. (Have we really? Who actually decided that?) Okay, but it&#8217;s going to take some time to figure out exactly how that will work (if it will work at all). It&#8217;s absurd to think there won&#8217;t be consequences and difficulties figuring out exactly what the rules should be. <\/p>\n<p>For example, if we truly want everybody to be equal, and to lessen sexual tension, maybe we should eliminate profile pictures. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that when you mix men and women, you get sexual tension. Some people seem to think that we&#8217;re supposed to be sexless individuals who treat other people as &#8220;people&#8221; only and not as women and men with desires and interests. And then when people act like real people &#8212; who actually are men &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2023\/08\/22\/segregated-spaces-do-make-some-sense\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Segregated spaces do make some sense&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}