I can't comment how how commonplace it is, but having worked in an office with many women there seemed to be a lot of animosity towards the more attractive women from the less attractive women. Could have just been that office.
Another friend who ran a support department told me she refused to hire a quite attractive candidate because she felt that the attractive woman would 'distract the men'. My personal feelings were that she liked being the only woman in the department. To be fair she also refused to hire candidates based on their age. We stopped talking shortly after that conversation.
Nah, this is incredibly common. It goes even further: if an attractive woman is successful, her entire success will be attributed to her attractiveness, rather than her intelligence or skill. It's a major factor that contributes to the glass ceiling they inevitably hit.
That said, there's no remedy for stupidity.
uh, no. very attractive women don't have kids with the legions of dorks that give them unearned help throughout their life. in any industry.
women aren't stupid. they're actually very smart.
It isn't just "dorks" who give even marginally attractive women special treatment - there are very few categories of men who don't (primarily gay men). Try this experiment out in real life - any time you see a man helping a female stranger with anything consider if he would do the same for a male stranger. The number of times a straight guy will go out of his way for another man who isn't a friend is practically zero.
women aren't stupid. they're actually very smart.
The idea that women deliberately take advantage of "dorks" sounds vaguely bitter and misogynistic.
yeah, exactly. those are the guys who are getting with the attractive women.
specifically, high value men who don't give handouts.
also, dorks isn't exclusive to IT. every industry has dorks.
And human.
It happens enough that it's a (probably undeserved) stereotype.
People are no damn good, regardless of gender. Or at least, enough of them are no good to give a bad name to the rest of us. We suck.
anyone who's ever been in an adult relationship could tell you as much.
You can't be serious? This happens a lot, I can't imagine how one cannot see it.
Women are actually smarter than men on average, or so IQ tests tell us.
Most businesses are pretty stupid, if you think about it - buy cheap sell high, or produce something people need.
As for science, it's mostly tedious research by poor PhD students with professors taking most of the credit. Occasionally there's a breakthrough, a cause for celebration (and hopefully real world application).