I dont know why but, it immensly pisses me off when someone attributes my successes to my gender..It just disturbs me that people still hold these attitudes towards women. Today in one of the groups, there were mentions that females have made it to ISB with lower GMAT scores, earlier it was a discussion about how top insitutes "compromise " quality and raise their sexual diversity by admitting females!!! Duh! does that even make sense??? Not to me......as far as I do see, there a quite as many males who have gotten through with low scores.I feel that everyone has been given a fair chance and clearly those who were admitted outdid the others irrespective of any criteria. It is outrageuos that people would attribute their failures to "male" inequality,which is a consequence of favoritism to the fairer sex!!!!!!!!!
And wat surprises me is the fact that this doesnt bother hundreds of others in the group except me......Last time I voiced my opinions and landed up looking like a shrew...!!!!!!!!
People told me all along I am a feminist - I always disagreed.... Now I am not so sure!!!!!!!!
3 comments:
Wow congrats for ur admit to ISB ..
Nice blog.!! Enjoy the ISB experience.
Soumya. Hundreds of others kept quiet. Maybe some of them think that its a fact of life.. and you can either accept it or sit and whine about it.. No doubt they are trying to pick the best candidates, but, it is also a fact that they want to reach some magical figure of percentage of admits for women.
You know about the quota system in TN right? Do you think that its unfair that people belonging to SC & ST have a separate quota? NO! It is a fact that they don't have as much facilities as people in the cities do. So, due to circumstances, they may not be able to score as much a leading student from the city. Does that mean he/she is any less intelligent or hard working? I don't think so. On a similar analogy, I don't think a quota is necessarily a bad thing. It doesn't always mean that someone of inferior intellect got a place he/she didn't deserve.
Ignore those who whine about it. At this point, they are just in self doubt and are trying to find reasons for them not being able to get an admit. No need to be pissed for this. Just take a step back and look at all that you'll have to handle. Two kids, family, ISB, etc, etc. Do you think any of those whiners could take on so much? If I were you, I'd be laughing at that silly remark.
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