Women report not “getting up the nerve” to ask questions, so researchers propose that “question time be unlimited” at scientific talks. Because, you know, time is a construct. If you won’t hang around waiting for others to speak, you must be a misogynist.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202743 …
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Replying to @HeatherEHeying
So infantalising. It's credible that women are less confident about asking questions but the solution to that is for them to push themselves to do it if it matters to them. Confidence will not increase by softening challenges. Women have to be able to compete with men.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying
Still, given these data and me being a person who is slightly overconfident in asking questions after presentations, I will try to apply some kind of 'ladies first'-principle in the future.
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Replying to @Notquiteness @HeatherEHeying
I'd object if you felt I needed such help to be heard. I get this a lot. Feminist men who've never had a popular article let alone a viral one tell me they need to be quiet so I can be heard.
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Ah yes — the self-emasculation of the “Woke”...
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I just find it presumptuous. Maybe women are less forthcoming on average but don't assume this and think we need your help to speak. I don't mean to be harsh. I *know* it is well-intentioned & I appreciate those intentions, but I would just ask men to treat us as full adults.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying
If I see another human struggling with something that comes easily for me, I generally try to give them a hand by letting them go first, speak first etc. I think it’s Ok to be doing this by choice & on an individual level but to presume that all women need a helping hand is dumb.
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Well said, that woman!
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