After reading that, due to a majority of their reasoning this should be titled "Seven ways the world is not designed for smaller people". I am not a big dude myself, but more than half the points were about clothing/uniforms/protective gear not fitting correctly. Am I strawmanning this?
edit: I can already see flaw in my thinking as I sit here. It is unfair that these industries aren't prepared to support women, who are on average smaller, where they are happy to support the average male.
I don't get the point. There were two mediums, she decided she wanted a medium AFTER saying she wanted a large.
The options were available, but the change couldn't be accommodate in the timeframe. The second paragraph doesn't really seem to follow from the first.
"There are two medium-sized suits on the International Space Station, but only one had been properly configured for a spacewalk, and getting the spare up to standard would have taken hours.
Ms Criado Perez says it's still telling that the sizes available were medium, large, and extra-large only."
All but the two of the reasons boil down to, they are more men in that subject than women. A higher men to women ratio of astronauts, scientists, infantry soldiers and athletes mean that it makes sense that more of the equipment would be oriented towards men. Similarly I would assume that make up sets have small parts that are more appropriate for smaller women hand's than women's.
As for office temperature, I have never worked at a place where the temperature was dictated by a study. Everywhere I worked it was either the person sitting closest to the thermostat, the manager or a consensus that picked the temperature. But I assume that there may be places that go buy the stated study. Even in that case saying something like:
> "For all the corporate talk about teamwork, it's hard to feel part of a team when you are placed in an inhospitable physical environment."
Is a huge exaggeration and doesn't help accomplish anything
As for phone screen, I assume that men buy about the same amount as women. Yet the phone companies realized that if they make larger phones people will still buy it. The fault lies on the women for buying large phones rather than smaller ones, thereby letting phone companies know that making phones bigger is okay.
the thing about phonescreens is ridiculous. Boo-hoo you can't get the larger phone that operates on basically same software as the smaller sized ones. Like those are too big PERIOD.
The car crash dummies was a big eye opener though, that does need to be changed.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 19.6 ms ] threadedit: I can already see flaw in my thinking as I sit here. It is unfair that these industries aren't prepared to support women, who are on average smaller, where they are happy to support the average male.
The options were available, but the change couldn't be accommodate in the timeframe. The second paragraph doesn't really seem to follow from the first.
"There are two medium-sized suits on the International Space Station, but only one had been properly configured for a spacewalk, and getting the spare up to standard would have taken hours.
Ms Criado Perez says it's still telling that the sizes available were medium, large, and extra-large only."
As for office temperature, I have never worked at a place where the temperature was dictated by a study. Everywhere I worked it was either the person sitting closest to the thermostat, the manager or a consensus that picked the temperature. But I assume that there may be places that go buy the stated study. Even in that case saying something like: > "For all the corporate talk about teamwork, it's hard to feel part of a team when you are placed in an inhospitable physical environment." Is a huge exaggeration and doesn't help accomplish anything
As for phone screen, I assume that men buy about the same amount as women. Yet the phone companies realized that if they make larger phones people will still buy it. The fault lies on the women for buying large phones rather than smaller ones, thereby letting phone companies know that making phones bigger is okay.
The car crash dummies was a big eye opener though, that does need to be changed.