Hot take: #bropenscience *is* sexist...and alienates the very people that we want on our side. Science is, objectively, dominated by men, but I'm not sure this is the right approach. It feels a little bit like if we got called "lady scientists". Dismissed by gender.
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Sexism is not the result of individuals alone, it's about actions within a biased system. This is why dissuading people from engaging in bad actions and dismantling bad systems is the way to fix this in open science. Calling out people by name — in most cases — is less useful.
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#bropenscience is sexist against men IMHO fundamentally misuses the term "sexism". Sexism is a bias towards favouring men, towards androcentricity. -
Maybe we have different interpretations of the word sexism? Obviously there's a heavy heavy bias against women when it comes to sexism, but I don't feel like that's a free pass for (and forgive this term, I can't think how to put it) "reverse sexism" by that definition
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For me it's just incoherent. But I think how we understand and define sexism and feminism is different. And I certainly don't want to push you or pull you any specific way. If you care about what I think, I'm happy to share but otherwise I think I'm covered by what I have said.
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