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
Then people accuse me of expecting all women to be as confident as me but I had real panic attacks before my first Battle of Ideas last year. Had to see Dr. You might remember how nervous I still was in February. Just did 3 panels at BOI & 4 live radio shows calmly & confidently.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying
I'd be supportive of initiatives to help women be more outspoken if they were confidence building classes to prepare for competing equally. Was delighted my university just held a seminar on overcoming wage gap for women which was tips on negotiating salary and raises.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying
Obv, this kind of thing should also be open to nervous or socially awkward men tho.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @HeatherEHeying
Helen, I wrote your comment down from an event you did with Heather, Peter, and James in Portland last year. May not be word for word: "If we are assuming the choices men make as the ultimate best choices, we are making men the default humans, which is sexist and infantilizing...
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I was reminded of this point too - which I feel isn’t really being echoed in what you’re saying now, Helen. I don’t think unlimited question time sounds like a great solution but nor do I think the answer is that women just have to learn to act like men to compete.
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Replying to @rebeccatun @HaackRick and
How is building confidence acting like men? You make it sound as if confidence is inherently male. Many men need to build confidence as well.
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Replying to @fightitnow @HaackRick and
Whether it's inherent or a product of the circumstances, I'm saying that IF there's a fair way to change the circumstances that eliminates a disadvantage for any set of ppl, then surely that's preferable to saying it's the ones with the disadvantage who have to push themselves.
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I don't think so. The Coddling of the American Mind is particularly good at addressing this specifically.
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