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Is the context not that in STEM women often face sexism?
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
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
Address what I said, not something else
Is the individual context not that in STEM women often face sexism, not something else?
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?
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
Do you think STEM women don't face sexism? Address what I said, not something else.
Of course, I have first hand experience of it.
Now respond to what I said
What did you say? I'll answer you, I've just lost the original question in all of your back and forth
You sound inexperienced. Nothing you will say will even slightly move the needle on my intent or ability to discuss things. You can cry, wail, scream, insult, have a tantrum until you are blue in the face. It makes no difference to me. If you are willing to actually discuss something, then go for it. If you are just going to project your insecurities and view everything as a fight before it's become one, then you are the barrier to opinions changing based on new information, and nothing else.
Experience isn't an excuse for you to be willfully ignorant. That just makes you old and ignorant.