You probably dont have children, do you?

The primary purpose of parenting (as opposed to, say, an orphanage) is to "indoctrinate", or one might even say brainwash, your children with what you believe is proper behaviour. So the first part of your sentence is not much more than redundantly referring to parenting in general, albeit in an extremely Christianphobic manner.

Conversely, there is nothing intrinsically "unfriendly" about being non-Christian

In theory, this is true. However, in practice, the most loud, publicized, "non-Christian" media viewpoints, do tend to indeed be very anti-family and anti morals.

Family is, by common-sense, long-standing definition, the biological parents of children, staying together exclusively to raise, protect, and care for their children. In particular, the state of the parents is usually called "marriage".

Sadly, the primarily anti-christian media is attacking just about every point of that. eg:

• "No need to be faithful.. adultery isnt just okay, its exciting and good!"
• "No need to stay with your children... do whatever feels good to YOU! The children will be fine with whoever"
• "Heck, since all of the above is okay, what do we need marriage for? Lets just pervert it, and redefine it to be all about lust.. oops, I mean 'love', instead of family"

In a related story, creativity and productivity at CERN goes down by 200%.

Seriously, though, it would seem like in theory, fun things such as the actual mass related stuff in Mass Effect (but not crazy stuff like biotics) may finally be on the horizon.

Fun, and potentially scary, times ahead.

First of all,I'd be interested in you showing numbers proving that it was EVER a "very gender-balanced field". I'm scheptical of that.

To answer your question, though: I dont think there are individiual, easy-to-point-out examples. I think it's more an issue of attitudes, and work styles. Women are far more likely to choose the "I want to work with people" careers. They are more likely to want to socialize around certain types of things (See the other guys' post about his wife's complaints about her not liking her co-workers' social chices. Women are far more likely to just plain want to Talk More :) In my workplace, our branch of the IT work, is very, very isolated. Almost zero face-to-face chatting during the day. All cube work, and mostly online, not phone. Perhaps IT has changed to be less phone/in-person support overall, and that may have affected gender ratios.

Most women are not interested in that kind of "work environment". But that doesn't make our area "female hostile"; it simply makes it "not something that most women are interested in", in the same way that watching over 20-30 kindergarteners is "not something that most men are interested in."

Nothing to see here, move along to the next liberal knee-jerk cause.

You just put together, two things that do not belong together. You said "social gatherings". not "work sponsored event". This is not "workplace hostility", this is guys doing what guys want to do outside of work.

If those guys want to go to strip clubs as part of their "social group", they have every right to do so. Going to work with someone, does not give you the right to dictate what they do outside of work.

Nor does it allow you to force people to be "friendly". you are only entitled to "professional".

Certain people at my work, like to socialize around (particular type of group event). I dont like that kind of activity. I think it's gross. But do I get to tell them, "hey you dont get to go do that stuff because it makes me feel excluded" ?? NO. (PS: I'm not making this up, there really is that sort of thing, but I'm censoring the type of event in case someone at my work reads this and feels offended by it)

In exactly the same way your wife has no right to dictate what her "colleagues" do to socialize. If that means that she feels less "socially connected" to them... well, sorry, but that's not the purpose of what a workplace is for.

This is kind of similar to what I was saying in my prior article, tweaked just slightly: There's a difference between "things women don't like or are interested in", and things that are workplace discriminatory. If her co-workers were all members of a BSDM club, and she wasnt interested in joining them... or if they were bisexual, and enjoyed going to a mixed-gender lineup of strippers... would she have any right to complain? no.

Nor does she have any right to complain in the situation you described, if it is purely a "social gathering" outside of work. Same thing applies to "going and pounding whiskys", or "going out to shooting ranges", etc, etc, etc.

"bad attitude" is a subjective, and almost meaningless term.

There's plenty of things that could fall under the female definition of "bad attitude", that are simply"things women dont like", but ARE NOT IN THEMSELVES SEXIST. It's simply that women dont like them.

For that sort of thing: yes, women who are interested in working there, DO just "need a thicker skin". It's not up to the employeer to make everything potpourri scented and color coordinated just to attract more women.
If any feminazis are actually in favour of this idiocy, then consider what would be a fair counterpoint:

There is a "shortage" of men in Kindergarden through 2nd grade public schools. To address this, we must mandate more "male friendly" workplaces in elementary schools. We now require that the teachers' lounge supply free NFL coverage. Also, to address complaints by men of emotional assault, female employees are forbidden to ask male employees, "So, how does that make you FEEL?"

(satire off)

Any man who wishes to work in the elementary school system, needs to get over the fact that it is dominated by women at the moment, and make adjustments for THEM, rather than expect that the more than 75% majority female staff needs to cater to "male specific needs".

Same applies to women applying to male heavy careers. It's supposed to be about the JOB. Unless the men are specifically *rude* to them, they should get over themselves, or find a different career. The old "I want to work with people" work motivation, only is relevant for tier 1 helpdesk support, not for IT as an actual career. IT is primarily about the tech, not the people, and tech is gender-blind.

Good point. You guys need to go the "webcomic" route. Do virtual concerts. "Pay per view" as it were. Those then become the equivalent of selling hard-copy versions of the comics.

You could have both "live" versions of this thing, but also fancyschmancy "music video" type stuff.

Oh, and sell DVDs, that are specially decorated and branded, of the videos. Some people still like to "collect" stuff. hence all the biz that popular comic artists do, selling autographed books of the comics that people have already seen for free on the web.

and/or hook up with the "cafepress" type vendors, and sell merchandize through da net.

No, it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with MARKETING. You need huge amounts of MARKETING, to make the movie get big box office. Possibly more amounts of money than the movie production costs. Probably more amounts of time for people getting on talk shows, etc, etc. than it took to shoot the movie.

Aaaand.. why is that a terrible thing? That when people are in possession of something they no longer own, (when they were responsible for "picking it up" for themselves in the first place), they are expected to return it to the rightful owners? Or similarly, that falling in "breech of contract" has consequences?

What you seem to be saying, basically, is, "If you like stealing stuff, dont vote republican".

The implied inverse of that is, if you dont like people stealing stuff, vote Republican.

Works for me.

The key here is "option", or rather, lack thereof. You dont get an option, it's mandatory.

btw, you still have to pay the extra $30 or something, you are looking to avoid paying. family plans, etc. still have a "per device" fee.

Been there, done that. I had huge difficulties going to sleep "early".

From my own experience, I would guess that your issues are mostly a combination of one or more of the following:

1. stress
2. lack of purpose in your life
3. lack of positiveness in your life.

Most important tip:

That doesnt mean it is somehow impossible for you. It means you were doing it wrong, repeatedly.

FYI: I got over my late-night ness, when a combination of things happened:

1. I got older
2. I had children
3. I forcibly had to change my work schedule, and yes my life schedule as well

It's lose-lose.
The main problem is actually the problem with the intelligence of the majority of people (FROM BOTH parties, dont even start with single-party bashing), who "pretty much universally fall prey to marketing".

Give them the vote directly, they will vote for "bread and circuses".

Give them the vote indirectly, and the above de Tocqueville quotation comes into play. But really, that is just a one-level abstracted instance of the "bread and circuses" effect.
(Juvenal, circa AD 100)

It was to counter this effect, that ancient Athens attempted to educate citizens out of "Idiocy". It's interesting to note that originally, "idiot" was a term referring to someone who voted and generally acted in a self-centered manner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot/Idiocy_(Athenian_Democracy)

Then again, almost any system will work well, in a population of only 7 million people .

In comparison, the population of a SINGLE hyper metropolitan area in the US (the "greater los angeles area") is 16 million

San francisco bay area, 7 million

New York`: 8 million