Iāve been thinking about your perspective lately, and wondered if there is a variable I hadnāt considered enough. I was raised middle class American. For this post, I drew on my decade of experience as a lower class American after a disability left me unable to earn a good living for a long time. My field was heavily male dominated (construction). Since in my experience lower class American norms seem more gendered to me, I would expect the experience of someone who hasnāt worked in a male-dominated lower class American field to be pretty different from mine. My friends were ones I made from work, so they already considered me one of the guys. Do you think your experience was different from mine because you didnāt work in a male-dominated field?
I also suspect I gave off a one-of-the-guys vibe (because thatās the environment I prefer) that you donāt that altered how people treated me. I found this Slate Star Codex post helpful in thinking about this.
Iāve been thinking about your perspective lately, and wondered if there is a variable I hadnāt considered enough. I was raised middle class American. For this post, I drew on my decade of experience as a lower class American after a disability left me unable to earn a good living for a long time. My field was heavily male dominated (construction). Since in my experience lower class American norms seem more gendered to me, I would expect the experience of someone who hasnāt worked in a male-dominated lower class American field to be pretty different from mine. My friends were ones I made from work, so they already considered me one of the guys. Do you think your experience was different from mine because you didnāt work in a male-dominated field?
I also suspect I gave off a one-of-the-guys vibe (because thatās the environment I prefer) that you donāt that altered how people treated me. I found this Slate Star Codex post helpful in thinking about this.