{"id":16493,"date":"2013-07-22T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/22\/its-not-that-you-cant-be-proud-of-it-you\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T18:09:00","slug":"its-not-that-you-cant-be-proud-of-it-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/22\/its-not-that-you-cant-be-proud-of-it-you\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not that you can&#8217;t be proud of it &#8212; you absolutely can. You did bust ass and do good work to get that job. It&#8217;s about sympathy\/empathy. Knowing that my neighbors in a bottom-10th percentile school are much, much less likely to achieve that success (and hopefully you&#8217;ll want that disadvantage lessened?). As for your gender not being as big a problem: I think part of that comes from location, maybe? I imagine more liberal states = better places for ladies to work? (Just a guess&#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>empathy I can do, and my empathy often leads to a very specific outreach (i.e. donating money to a transgendered individual who got kicked out of their home). part of my drive to get rich is to make a better world through research on technologies and opportunities that would lessen the imbalances of education and able-bodiedness.\u00a0 I would LOVE to get in on researching tech for safer\/healthier food production, new methods of delivering education to people who don\u2019t learn well with current methods, affordable robotic technology to assist around the house, at school, at work.\u00a0 sympathy I try not to indulge in too much.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s a pretty selfish feeling (it\u2019s the karma-o-matic of the day for privileged people, imho).\u00a0 people in a lesser position of privilege than myself have told me sympathy feels like pity and that\u2019s not what they want.\u00a0 (correct me if I\u2019m wrong?)\u00a0but you\u2019re right; it is about being as aware, thoughtful, and in-tune a person as possible no matter where you might fall.<\/p>\n<p>could very well be Seattle, that\u2019s true. and probably the fact that my brain chemistry is terrifyingly balanced and I really can act the male as much as the female, so the things that bother many women about a workplace make me feel at home. and my position on all things sexual leaves me open to harassment. I\u2019m betting that what would truly make me feel harassed is a lot further up the \u201cyikes&quot; scale than lots of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>empathy I can do, and my empathy often leads to a very specific outreach (i.e. donating money to a transgendered individual who got kicked out of their home). part of my drive to get rich is to make a better world through research on technologies and opportunities that would lessen the imbalances of education and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/07\/22\/its-not-that-you-cant-be-proud-of-it-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s not that you can&#8217;t be proud of it &#8212; you absolutely can. You did bust ass and do good work to get that job. It&#8217;s about sympathy\/empathy. Knowing that my neighbors in a bottom-10th percentile school are much, much less likely to achieve that success (and hopefully you&#8217;ll want that disadvantage lessened?). As for your gender not being as big a problem: I think part of that comes from location, maybe? I imagine more liberal states = better places for ladies to work? 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