I don't see how this is personal to you or your identity in the way we usually mean "excluding" people, but I have addressed this before.
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The fact that women close to you, for example & if I understand you correctly, don't want to do
#openscience and prefer to do something else... is a problem you have to solve if you care, as an ally. -
Give them role models, make them feel safe, make them feel listened to, tell them to reach out and talk to me. If me just coining a term like
#bropenscience is enough to catalyse them, SOMETHING DEEPER must be going on. Find out what is pushing them away. -
Perhaps trying to balance the insult and collateral effects of using the term
#bropenscience against the effect of machismo, not just as a political discourse but in women’s everyday life could help you understand that > -
Olivia’s pun is not just needed but precisely a way to discriminate among men. Those offended or deterred by it are certainly not allies.
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But can some of them become allies? Perhaps that's what I'm getting at. Calling out sexism is vital. And so supporting even little steps in the right direction.
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Hardly so when they prove themselves unable to listen and rather they keep trying to push their views instead.
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Yeah, "sit down and listen" sounds harsh but it's often the only way.
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