How many female feminists does it take to build a bridge?

[beachbum111111]

'It was likely the engineers fault because I don't think people like engineers'

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The whole point of that original post was to take a jab at engineers you brainlet

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[Darryl McKoy]

The whole point of that original post was to take a jab at engineers you brainlet

Do they make you feel inadequate for doing design?

[King Tøny]

A bridge falling is a bridge falling. You can't have half a bridge fall. Either the bridge fell or it didn't.

Do math, round up.

You're expecting me to get an even number with 9% of 99.

lol

[beachbum111111]

Do they make you feel inadequate for doing design?

You'd have to ask someone who still works in that field.

[TlTO]

im an engineer wahts up

[King Tøny]

how many forcibly-all-male engineering teams could have averted a bridge collapse by hiring one female employee instead of the one guy who flubbed the math?

So yeah, I'll agree that enforcing a 100% gender quota for an engineering team is a bad idea

If teams are all male it is nothing but sheer coincidence they all happened to be male. Since males dominate this field. It is more likely to claim there were no females available to hire.

If teams are all female it is absolutely not a coincidence because of how few women are in the engineering field it is statistically impossible to say they were only hired because there were no men available.


What this means is that more qualified men were not hired over less qualified females. Unless you're going to argue with me that the team they picked were the absolute best female engineers available.

My post fully answers yours and it wasn't even originally directed to you lol.

[Darryl McKoy]

You'd have to ask someone who still works in that field.

I bet you could draw a really good non-collapsing bridge in ms paint though right? Who needs engineers anyway

[King Tøny]

It is statistically impossible to suggest an all female team of engineers were hired over men for being better than all of them.

When men dominate this field and have been working at it for far longer.


A few of those females would of had to have been incredibly unqualified.

[SeventhSandwich]

If teams are all male it is nothing but sheer coincidence they all happened to be male.

Nothing to do with the fact that colleges prevented women from attending well into the 50s and 60s?

Hell, my school didn't allow women to enroll until 1968. This means we've basically had one generation of women that have technically been allowed to be engineers. But it wasn't until Title IX that there were any legal protections preventing engineering firms from just completely rejecting all women (which they regularly did).

Also, just for what it's worth, this whole all-female-bridge-crew thing is an urban legend.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/was-all-female-responsible-bridge-collapse/

[King Tøny]

Nothing to do with the fact that colleges prevented women from attending well into the 50s and 60s?

Well it's the year 2018 now. Who cares, the past is the past.

Also you didn't need a college degree to build bridges in the 50s and 60s. You could literally start from the bottom of construction and work your way up if you knew exactly what you were doing and talking about.

[Darryl McKoy]

It is statistically impossible to suggest an all female team of engineers were hired over men for being better than all of them.

Didn't it strike you as a bit weird that there are only two mentions on the first page of google of a female only team? 1 being your article and the other being the snopes page that debunks it? lol

[King Tøny]

Snopes hasn't been trust worthy in a long time since they use nothing but strawman arguments to claim something is false or not.

[SeventhSandwich]

Well it's the year 2018 now.

You don't think there's any residual effects from this? Lots of civil engineering companies are still owned and managed by people who lived back then.

Also you didn't need a college degree to build bridges in the 50s and 60s. You could literally start from the bottom of construction and work your way up if you knew exactly what you were doing and talking about.

But we aren't talking about construction here, are we? We're talking about civil engineering - the people that actually design and dimension these structures.

Snopes hasn't been trust worthy in a long time since they use nothing but strawman arguments to claim something is false or not.

Read the article. They link to a page from the company that built the bridge which confirms that the company is owned by men and had male construction workers.

[thegoodperry]

Pictured: all-women construction team celebrates the construction of their womanly bridge

[SeventhSandwich]

Those are some pretty butch women. Especially the gal with the beard.