Anecdata, but my blonde Nordic friend also gets this a lot: I wonder if blonde femmes attract it? (Not that this is an excuse)
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Replying to @schrodingerskit @o_guest
I honestly think yes. I used to dye my hair dark and got nowhere near as much shit as I do now
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Once showed a group photo to kids & asked "Which are physicists?". Boy shouted "Not her, she's blond!" pointing to the PhD astrophysicist.
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Very. I just hope that the kids got the point...
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It's very hard to accept single events like "women can be good scientists too" when obviously their environment has taught them otherwise.
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Like assuming telling a child once that a dolphin is a mammal works.
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It doesn't. They need more chances to get it, sadly. And the gendered jobs one is way harder than "mammals".
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In more 'oh, FUCK', had you noticed that mammals directly defines us as 'creatures with breasts'? https://fromshanklin.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/linnaeus-and-the-breast/ … /ht
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Replying to @schrodingerskit @DrDasB and
Yes, I have. Maybe because I speak Greek and it's more obvious (θηλαστικά). Animals that breast feed. It doesn't bother me.
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" Linnaeus made sure the breast and the woman linked with other animals, and ‘man’ stood alone." That bit is gross though.
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