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)
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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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And I couldn't tell if your post was mocking the fact that males get in these fields mostly undeterred, then identify as women and are seen as the best among us, or really suggesting that males or "amab" make smarter women. The latter of which feels like James Damore 2.0
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I'm more of a "both" person; I believe bio males have a natural tendency towards systems thinking (only generally and only slightly ofc, I myself am a woman with strong systems thinking and I know many other women who are too),
and also find something slightly missing when people push for women's equality in male dominated fields and then count trans women in this in the same way.
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