Well, my thoughts on this are based on the fact that there is a lot of evidence that having a female name makes you less believable sadly.
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Replying to @o_guest @TjeerdWBoonstra and
Indeed! My first name is often abbreviated to one that in the anglophone world is taken as female, with exactly the consequences you mention
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Replying to @Villavelius @TjeerdWBoonstra and
I'm both pleased you noticed this and very sorry this phenomenon exists.
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Replying to @o_guest @TjeerdWBoonstra and
Sad state of affairs. I only use my last name on Twitter now. And a nom-de-plume as Twitter handle, distinguishing me from family members.
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Replying to @Villavelius @TjeerdWBoonstra and
It really is. It's even worse if one has a really "foreign" (brown or black) looking name and female looking. Our biases are such shit.
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Replying to @o_guest @TjeerdWBoonstra and
I know. It's bad enough already if one has a Germanic name in the UK, even when it is of Saxon origin. Missing the 'Anglo' bit, I guess.
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Replying to @Villavelius @TjeerdWBoonstra and
Yeah, privilege is a pyramid with each step down towards the bottom bringing with it a fresh level of shit.
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Replying to @o_guest @Villavelius and
My "favourite" story on this in academia is my experience of going to the uni library when I was a PhD student VS my mixed-race friend (also
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Replying to @o_guest @Villavelius and
PhD student). She has an accent too. I deleted mine when I moved to UK a decade ago because I was young and wanted to be treated better.
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Replying to @o_guest @TjeerdWBoonstra and
You 'deleted' your accent? Wow. I've never been able to do that. My oral musculature was already too far developed to change materially :-)
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Haha, it's not about muscles, if you want to learn about language and accents I can give you info. But yes, it's possible.
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