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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This robs people of their individual context.

Is the context not that in STEM women often face sexism?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I honestly have to pretend that sexism in STEM is nowhere near as bad as I know it is for the sake of my own mental health. I've heard incredible stories of blatant sexism from colleagues and friends that I just can't fathom

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've had to defend a close friend from repeated advances and touching, she was an engineer, he was 40 years older than her. It's a problem. I've had good friends get taken advantage of by a PI. Gross. It's the power dynamic in academia too where one person controls the career outcome of the PhD student. It's really nuts out there. It's getting better but that takes time and awareness. I've seen what the bad eggs do and they disgust me. It's not just men, but there are a lot of cases of it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00795-1

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Address what I said, not something else

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is the individual context not that in STEM women often face sexism, not something else?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Do you think that the Prime Ministers wife is less privileged than the Romanian miner? How would you address the discrepancy with the group prescription?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No, no one thinks that, because part of the context there is that one of the people is married to a head of state, and one is a coal miner

You aren't misunderstanding anything here, loser, and we aren't dumb enough to fall for it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you think STEM women don't face sexism? Address what I said, not something else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Of course, I have first hand experience of it.

Now respond to what I said

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

What did you say? I'll answer you, I've just lost the original question in all of your back and forth