[extropy-chat] Harvard president criticized over comments

[Adrian Tymes]

--- MB <mbb386 at main.nc.us> wrote:
> My own take on this male/female discrepancy is that
> frequently girls
> *put down* other girls who are smart. It is very
> discouraging. There's
> a point in schooling where some girls have only
> derision for any girl
> who studies, does well, excells at math or science.
> It takes a pretty
> tough little girl to simply ignore that as it's
> often the very
> pretty/popular girls who are doing the putting-down.

There's more than a bit of that on the male side, to
be sure, but apparently not as much as on the female
side.  One wonders if they might have the same root
cause.