text: A lot of this goes back to crazy educators.  I sat at a party with a bunch of teachers who went on and on about how chauvinistic men are in the workplace.  Teaching, especially at the middle school level and below, is a profession dominated by women.  I wondered how they could make such assertions about men in the workforce, when they don't actually work with any.  
  
  I work in engineering, so have a lot of experience working with a lot guys.  Lots of meetings, I'm the only woman in the room.  My experiences didn't sound at all like what they were saying.  My experience also tells me that arguing with women who work in female dominated professions about what it's actually like working with men is a losing battle.  It's like playing checkers with a chicken.  Eventually, the chicken gets mad & wipes all the pieces off the board.