At this point, if I hear someone referring to an absolutely brilliant woman they deeply admire for her work in advanced theoretical physics or mathematics or something, I assign something like 50% probability to the woman being trans
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Shhhh. It's forbidden to recognize that men are more likely to be on the far right side of the bell curve.
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Or to recognize that men have been in these fields since before women were allowed to go to college. They’ve been experiencing nepotism, favoritism, and community that women haven’t been allowed to be a part of
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This explanation while true for a lot of things, doesn't hold here in my opinion. We *still* see heavily male-dominated areas even where there's no systemic barrier to entry for women (like crypto), and some male-dominated fields have switched to being female-dominated (medicine)
It does hold here. I'm a female computer science student and ngl being at the center of ~discourse~ a lot does get discouraging. Certain stem fields feel almost guaranteed to be hostile work environments for women and its difficult to want to build a career within that.
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