The Generalization

It's the great generalization...

Now, I'm not talking about how women are considered to be worse at math, that's an inconsiderate topic to rant about for another day. No, the reason I post this picture is that there are two major faults on display.

The first is the obvious: that women are more often generalized through specific example than men are. There are arguments out there that women cannot apply mathematics, organize businesses, or compete in sporting events as well as men can. Sure, statisticians can flash some graphs, but the truth is that factual or not these claims are not fair. Yes, males tend to score higher than females on standardized math tests such as the SAT Mathematics. And it may be that there are more male executives than female in the corporate world. And it cannot be disputed that chances are, if you're watching sports on television, it's going to be men, men, men.

But those figures, while accurate, cannot be used as justification for the generalization of over half of the world's population.

The piece of this image which is perhaps the most shocking is something that initially is perceived as too obvious to mention: the person who says that "girls suck at math" is male. Had the picture featured two girls, it only would have been "you suck at math." But the point I'm trying to stress is that if it the roles were swapped, and it was the girl correcting the boy, it STILL would have been "you suck at math."

I guess what I'm trying to say is that for whatever reason, one which probably stems from the patriarchy which has governed gender culture since time immemorial, the female population has been generalized under all-encompassing umbrellas much more often than the male. These generalizations are not fair. In all three cases which I displayed, there are huge exceptions. There are women who kick butt at calculus. There are women who dominate the workplace. And there are women who scrape up competition in a stadium. 

Umbrellas that society places on women are unfair and unnecesarry. It's not even a rainy day.