ALL-FEMALE engineer team designed the Miami bridge that collapsed last week

[make speed limit 45]

Yet another affirmative action fail. These brainless bimbos couldn't design a hockey puck but they got a "minority" contract even though they're not even a minority!!

http://sandrarose.com/2018/03/diversity-fail-women-engineering-team-behind-collapse-miami-pedestrian-bridge/

march 18 2018 The all-women engineering team that designed the ill-fated pedestrian foot bridge at Miami’s Florida International University were highly touted for their advances in a field that is typically dominated by men.

But critics are pointing the finger of blame at the female engineers for design flaws that may have brought the bridge down.

Munilla Construction Management (MCM), the South Miami-based firm that designed the FIU foot bridge, has been sued multiple times for unsafe practices in the past.

MCM was awarded the $14.2 million minority contract to design and build the cable-stayed bridge. The company is well-connected in Miami politics and it promotes inclusion and diversity in the workforce.

The lead engineer on the foot bridge project is a female, Leonor Flores, who is a graduate of FIU. Flores led a team of all-women engineers and designers who oversaw the crews that built the prefabricated “instant bridge” by the side of the road using FIU’s own accelerated construction techniques.

Studies all over the world have shown that boys and men are twice as good at math as girls and women. The gender disparity in mathematics scores explains why there are far fewer women engineers than men in the world.

 

[make speed limit 45]

AA is always wrong even when used to give incompetent people silly post office jobs or social worker jobs. But important jobs should be merit only. Unfortunately liberals insist that engineering jobs and judgeships and military positions be handed our by race and sex.

 

[EatTheRich]

If it had been an all-male team (and no doubt many engineering fails have been made by teas meeting that description) you wouldn't even be considering it remarkable. The military ... where competence is a matter of life and death ... supports affirmative action because they understand that it reduces the extent to which race and sex are considered more than merit.

 

[make speed limit 45]

If it had been an all-male team (and no doubt many engineering fails have been made by teas meeting that description) you wouldn't even be considering it remarkable. .

Correct - i would not object if this bridge had been designed by an all-male team because i realize they were chosen on merit. But these female engineers got the job just because they're women. How can even YOU defend that. THINK

 

[EatTheRich]

Correct - i would not object if this bridge had been designed by an all-male team because i realize they were chosen on merit. But these female engineers got the job just because they're women. How can even YOU defend that. THINK

They didn't get the job just because they're women. If they were men there would be reason to suspect that sex might have been the only reason they got the job ... but if they were women it means their sex counted AGAINST them yet they got the job anyway.

 

[Jen]

Yet another affirmative action fail. These brainless bimbos couldn't design a hockey puck but they got a "minority" contract even though they're not even a minority!!

Any sort of affirmative action thing is doomed to failure because it chooses a person for a job not because the person is the best suited for that job but for superficial reasons irrelevant to the job.

Michelle Obama's pal was chosen to do the Obamacare website based on her being Michelle's pal. The website was a failure.

President Obama was elected based on his being of African heritage. His presidency was an abject failure.

Electing Hillary because she's a woman would have been another stupid mistake (she had no other platform to run on if you'll notice).

Affirmative action doesn't work.

 

[sear]

"ALL-FEMALE engineer team designed the Miami bridge that collapsed last week "

That's what they get for letting men build it.

 

[justoffal]

If it had been an all-male team (and no doubt many engineering fails have been made by teas meeting that description) you wouldn't even be considering it remarkable. The military ... where competence is a matter of life and death ... supports affirmative action because they understand that it reduces the extent to which race and sex are considered more than merit.

Bullshit. You wanna hit the field with an affirmative action platoon against an average Russian combat unit.... Make out your will first.

 

[EatTheRich]

Any sort of affirmative action thing is doomed to failure because it chooses a person for a job not because the person is the best suited for that job but for superficial reasons irrelevant to the job.

Michelle Obama's pal was chosen to do the Obamacare website based on her being Michelle's pal. The website was a failure.

President Obama was elected based on his being of African heritage. His presidency was an abject failure.

Electing Hillary because she's a woman would have been another stupid mistake (she had no other platform to run on if you'll notice).

Affirmative action doesn't work.

Obama was elected despite being Black, and was an unusually successful president. Clinton was almost elected despite being female, and was unusually competent. Being Michelle Obama's pal is cronyism, not affirmative action. Affirmative action means allowing the most qualified people to get the job (or other perk) despite not being a white male.

 

[EatTheRich]

Bullshit. You wanna hit the field with an affirmative action platoon against an average Russian combat unit.... Makeout Make out your will first.

No society was more committed to affirmative action than the Soviet Union ... that's one of the things that helped them build the formidable war machine that defeated Hitler. Affirmative action in Russia has been eroded since Stalin's time and more so since the USSR fell ... and Russian military capability has suffered as a result ... but the legacy of decades of affirmative action is still one of the sources of Russia's power.

 

[justoffal]

No society was more committed to affirmative action than the Soviet Union ... that's one of the things that helped them build the formidable war machine that defeated Hitler. Affirmative action in Russia has been eroded since Stalin's time and more so since the USSR fell ... and Russian military capability has suffered as a result ... but the legacy of decades of affirmative action is still one of the sources of Russia's power.

You got that wrong.... Just because there are women in the Russian army doesn't mean they are there by affirmative action. Unlike the United States Russia has not yet been mentally deranged by the mindless egalitarians.

They are tough bunch and they don't get any breaks because they're women, or transvestites, or transexuals.

Once again I encourage you to make out your will first.



Jo

 

[EatTheRich]

You got that wrong.... Just because there are women in the Russian army doesn't mean they are there by affirmative action. Unlike the United States Russia has not yet been mentally deranged by the mindless egalitarians.

They are tough bunch and they don't get any breaks because they're women, or transvestites, or transexuals.

Once again I encourage you to make out your will first.



Jo

The Soviet Union was more explicitly committed to AA on ethnic grounds. But the fact is that women would not have had the opportunity to serve without the decision being made not to go with the standard procedure of selecting the "best man for the job."

 

[justoffal]

Obama was elected despite being Black, and was an unusually successful president. Clinton was almost elected despite being female, and was unusually competent. Being Michelle Obama's pal is cronyism, not affirmative action. Affirmative action means allowing the most qualified people to get the job (or other perk) despite not being a white male.

If you think the Clinton the female was a competent politician then you are absolutely insane. Bill Clinton was something of a political genius I'll give you that but his wife was a complete catastrophe both functionally as a politician and technically speaking as any kind of technician at that level.

Just to set the record straight let me tell you that I work with a number of female engineers and also male engineers. The girls are here because they can go equation for equation, analysis for analysis, and spreadsheet for spreadsheet with any of the guys they work with ..... in fact sometimes they're better. Has absolutely nothing to do with what set of genitalia they happen to own.

Jo

 

[EatTheRich]

If you think the Clinton the female was a competent politician then you are absolutely insane. Bill Clinton was something of a political genius I'll give you that but his wife was a complete catastrophe both functionally as a politician and technically speaking as any kind of technician at that level.

People who know them say she was the genius who got him elected. She is said to be charismatic although I have trouble seeing it. Her health care proposal was better than Obamacare and she couldn't really help that stability in the Middle East was falling apart when she became secretary of state.

 

[MrMike]

AA is always wrong even when used to give incompetent people silly post office jobs or social worker jobs. But important jobs should be merit only. Unfortunately liberals insist that engineering jobs and judgeships and military positions be handed our by race and sex.

We got an Affirmative Action POTUS in Obama and look at how well that Liberal feel good experiment worked out...

 

[justoffal]

People who know them say she was the genius who got him elected. She is said to be charismatic although I have trouble seeing it. Her health care proposal was better than Obamacare and she couldn't really help that stability in the Middle East was falling apart when she became secretary of state.

As much as I already have too much to read it seems to me that a good reading of a couple of Clinton biographies might be in order. After all it's a very important era in our National History and probably deserves to be researched more thoroughly than I have researched it.

Jo

 

[connieb]

They didn't get the job just because they're women. If they were men there would be reason to suspect that sex might have been the only reason they got the job ... but if they were women it means their sex counted AGAINST them yet they got the job anyway.

Yeah, that is not how it works. These jobs go to less qualified women OVER more qualified men, to make the news, meet diversity requirements, etc.

 

[Corruptbuddha]

Obama was elected despite being Black, and was an unusually successful president. Clinton was almost elected despite being female, and was unusually competent. Being Michelle Obama's pal is cronyism, not affirmative action. Affirmative action means allowing the most qualified people to get the job (or other perk) despite not being a white male.

Obama was elected because he was black, and was an unremarkable president. Clinton was nearly elected because she was a woman, despite her track record of failure. Affirmative action is the definitive opposite of merit. And this latest bridge failure is demonstrative proof of that fact.

 

[ObamacareForever]

Yeah, that is not how it works. These jobs go to less qualified women OVER more qualified men, to make the news, meet diversity requirements, etc.

Besides the fact that sandrarose.com looks suspiciously like fake news. Is there any evidence that men would have designed a bridge that wouldn't have collapsed?

 

[ObamacareForever]

AA is always wrong even when used to give incompetent people silly post office jobs or social worker jobs. But important jobs should be merit only. Unfortunately liberals insist that engineering jobs and judgeships and military positions be handed our by race and sex.

Do you believe ANY woman is capable of winning a job as an engineer or judge or in the military on the basis of merit?