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[–] serenissi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Not a physicist but fuck it is so relatable.

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 73 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Fuck these misogynistic pigs, idiots like these need to be called out more often. It's too bad she couldn't give names out and completely humiliate and ruin them.

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 142 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 101 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Shoutout to the physicists dismissing biologist experiment design as a whole instead of across sexual or gendered lines.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I read that as the subtext still being sexist because Biology tends to have more women in the field compared to Physics.

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

Nah, it's typical university faction wars. Engineers say crap about architects, mathematicians sneer on physicists and so on...

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Engineers say crap about architects

As an engineer, this shit is so cringe... There is a youtube gaming channel with an alleged engineer who plays video games (often related to physics or building things), and his entire fucking personality is formed around mocking architects for being "stupid." He literally substitutes in the word "architect" instead of calling someone stupid. He say's "they're an architect."

Grow the fuck up goddamn. How insecure do you have to be?

[–] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

I'm a heavy equipment mechanic, and every day in the shop I hear other guys complaining about how an engineer fucked up a design on a piece of equipment and that's why it failed. Or that the engineer made it hard to work on on purpose. So cringe. I just roll my eyes at them and tell them if they are so smart then why aren't they the ones designing the equipment lol

Its sad that all the fields feel the need to shit 9n each other. We as a society would got a lot further if we could all get along 😁

[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How people can walk out of a university with degrees and not understand how all areas of knowledge contribute towards each other and link together in ways that are not immediately obvious astounds me.

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[–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 74 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I appreciate her telling it like it is and not bowing to a pressure to please.

Found an article speaking more about it, if anyone is curious about the context/her work.

[–] cleanandsunny@literature.cafe 146 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Name dropping TU Delft is surprising to me! ETA: found more info here, but not about the lawsuit piece.

https://delta.tudelft.nl/en/article/a-no-thank-you-to-the-person-who-assumed-i-was-the-coffee-lady

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 87 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fucking relatable.

No thank you to the hundreds of years of chemist men taking credit for women's discoveries.

No thank you to the old white Persian man gate keeping chemistry from Ukranians and older women in my class.

No thank you to the sexist math book author who used shoeless women in a kitchen as a word problem example.

No thank you to Amazon for banning my 15 year account for calling the sexist math book author out in reviews.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 94 points 2 days ago (11 children)

There is an excellent Science channel on Youtube and Nebula with a Physics PHD who's made some eye-opening content about harassment and misogyny in STEM and Academia.

https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro

Love her videos! Really opened my eyes to a lot of this.

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[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 73 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This just makes me sad. How can science advance, if we gatekeep one half of human population? In my academic career I have consistently found women to be smarter and better than men. Yet, these misogynistic ideas seem to persist. We deserve better than old farts with even older bias heading the institutions that make up our society.

When I was in elementary school, we always had a table at the back where the advanced students would do more difficult stuff than the rest of the class while not being completely isolated. The table was always me and 5 or 6 girls. When we graduated high school, I was the top-ranked boy - and the 22nd-ranked student overall. I just took it completely for granted that girls were smarter than boys (although I did perceive the very strong anti-intellectual culture among boys which seemed more impactful than native abilities).

It wasn't until I went to college that I started encountering the belief that men were fundamentally smarter than women, even though every college and university I've attended had more women than male students and the women had much better academic performance. That was my first taste of the power of group delusion.

But now they're all "DEI hires," at least in the US, so we're fucked over here

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 38 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's exactly that is why they're kept down. Tiny men are afraid that they won't seem as smart as the woman in the room.

As a man, I try to be different. I mentor the women around me and encourage them to do more, be better. I successfully got one of my mentee to negotiate her salary just yesterday even though she felt uncomfortable doing so. Try to be the change we need

Never understood why some people so desperately need to be the smartest being in the universe. You're a magic meat computers running on a system of hormones so complex that tweaking their balance just a bit can cause unforseen permament consequences. None of us have the right to call ourselves "smart". Just chill and do your best.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago

I read the first sentence in that big paragraph and thought "wow, going straight to the biggest problem right out of the gate instead of building up to it, huh?" Then I kept reading and realized the entire paragraph was about that same thing. Holy shit, that's a lot of sexism!

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago

Now I want an anti-acknowledgment section in my dissertation too

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Beautifully spoken

[–] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Never let the actions of others dictate your future. If you have a goal never never give up.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Simpler said than done. Of course I agree with you, but we need deeper changes in our society, in our behaviour as people. If you get told time and time again, that you're worthless, can't achieve anything etc. that's going to leave a mark. Sure, encouraging to not let that dominate one's thoughts is a useful skill. But it shouldn't be necessary in the first place.

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[–] AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Maybe instead of meaningless platitudes actual change would be in order.

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