Totally inspired by another question...
Also who said engineering is challenging and other areas are somehow... not?
This is the other q.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071127085049AAxMiNh&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiDJXUSDWePPXMtOy91Of5PeeGFsJ5Nlu7Q--&paid=answered#F4ApDGPGIDUlse_UbZ7L
2007-11-27 12:54:52 · 7 answers · asked by Fex 6 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Diddy, TOP contributor, hats off... congrats! Hey, that sounds a lot like Da Vinci... am I way off? I actually don't know much about him other than he did a lot of stuff!
2007-11-27 13:13:48 · update #1
Yeah, Prof, I know, it's just inspired by another q... check it out, and my answer to it. Empanada Loca - I just baptized him - lol- was saying that engineering is challenging, and the arts and humanities are not... that's possibly why we chose those fields... cause we're lazy... I'm just turning it around so we can explore both sides of the coin...
2007-11-27 13:17:10 · update #2
Good point, Ro
2007-11-27 13:27:51 · update #3
Many of them actually do. It's just that we have become a society where it's not considered cool for men to pursue areas other than science and engineering. If they aren't interested in those subjects, then that must mean that somehow they are less manly. It would be nice if we could all pursue areas of study that we actually are interested in and are good at without fear of ridicule.
2007-11-27 13:23:15 · answer #1 · answered by RoVale 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
My personal hero went from engineering to mathematics while he was trying to develop an aircraft engine (before the Wright brothers' flight) and realized that he needed more maths to work out the fluid dynamics, but then became fascinated with the foundations of mathematics and from there, logic and philosophy. But he was also an architect, a sculptor, a painter, and a composer (a dilettante, but competent in all) and always interested in culture and literature. While few can be so well-rounded, I would consider that sort of balance a laudable idea. C.P. Snow's The Two Cultures shows the dangers of our over-specialization for our culture as a whole.
Actually, it's Wittgenstein. And thanks. (When it comes to painting, Leonardo was certainly NOT a dilettante!)
2007-11-27 21:07:08 · answer #2 · answered by Gnu Diddy! 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is not that I do not like the humanities; humanities before 1960, or so. I like history and philosophy and some other things, but as I am a philistine, I think art is for those who have that talent.
My " beef " with the humanities is post-modernism and the humanities insistence that they know more than scientists about the natural world. It is no coincidence that the term " scientism " has etymological roots in the humanities and social sciences.
As far as challenge goes, it is not a formal ranking, but the ranking by rigor is thus; 1st. Math, Science and engineering. 2nd Business. 3rd. Social science. And bringing up the rear, humanities. The mean variance in IQ between social scientist and natural scientists is about one standard deviation. You can figure the variance between science and humanities.
You ladies on here really do put feelings before facts and discount the latter. Your feelings do not mean anything to the truth, though.
There are a lot of men who like humanities, but, there are some, like me, who do not respect them much. Engineering is challenging and risky. Men are not risk averse, so will take up that type of challenge, if so equipped.
2007-11-27 21:47:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
I'm a man but I have very catholic interests. I like a little science but am not at all into engineering or maths. I like a little of some of the humanities but I don't like the heavy stuff too much. I used to be quite a good artist (my children, my siblings and their children are into pictorial art in fact). I used to be into amateur drama. I love good works, anything from Plato, the Bible, to Conan Doyle, H G Wells, Charles Dickens.
So much for gender stereotypes!
2007-11-27 21:32:41 · answer #4 · answered by celtish 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I hear and see alot of people, mostly on here, saying men don't like humanities. If men don't like humanities, then why is a picture of a sculpture of Plato the first thing you see when you look up "humanities" on Wikipedia? Many of the world's most renowned artists, philosophers, etc. were and are men. I've visited campuses of a few art schools and it didn't seem like there were more females than males. It seemed pretty equal. If there were more females, it wasn't many more.
2007-11-27 21:52:26 · answer #5 · answered by UpTheDownwardSpiral 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Simplicity and practicality gives the MOST reasonable answer to this question: Because someone has to MAKE THE MONEY ! Our society primarily expects men to do this ! Humanities majors who have careers in their majors rarely make more than squat ! Women can go study art history, they have "choice" ! Let's not forget the favorite "MRS" degree !
That's it !
I'm ready for yet another best answer ! ;-)
2007-11-28 02:45:42 · answer #6 · answered by dean g 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some men- not all or even a majority.
Humanities are all encompassing- art, drama, music, history, philosophy, english lit, and languages are all part of what makes us human/humane.
2007-11-27 21:10:18 · answer #7 · answered by professorc 7 · 4⤊ 5⤋