it's become a catchall scapegoat to excuse socially awkward men @OtherSociology
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Yes to all this! It is an ableist discourse to emphasise autism as an explanation or "excuse" for harassment.
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Third, there is no scientific correlation between autism & sexual harassment in STEM. See point 1.
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it's also completely unequally applied. The social faux pas by autistic men (or men perceived as autistic)
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are not tolerated in autistic women & socially awkward women r rarely excused w/ "well she might be autistic"
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the "he can't help it bc he is/might be autistic" is just a more fake sciency way of saying "boys will be boys"
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it is a pernicious intersection of sexism & ableism to be an autistic woman complaining abt harassment &
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then have the harasser's behaviour excused bc he "might" be autistic too & his behaviour is something that I
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#ActuallyAutistic woman would never get away with@reina_sabah1 reply 3 retweets 2 likes -
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bonus points if the person doing the excusing points out my own autism & tells me to have empathy 4 my harasser
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Grrr! Solidarity for SH you've survived and further discrimination by system (on top of other discrimination!)
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