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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would really like to hear Aella's take on why brothels, strip clubs and OF are female dominated considering there is no systemic barrier to men, or anyone, entering those positions either
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I can't see tweet you're responding to, but they seem female dominated because females make much more money at it than men do, for various reasons but generally because sexual access to women is much harder for men and also much more important for them