@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social
Post #3640362
2026-07-06 13:59 UTC
@oddhack@mstdn.social @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz you often seem to see men ignoring women's contributions but also ignoring other men's as well, if the men are younger or perhaps students or from a different culture. Women are a solid subset, but a mere "acknowledge women" doesn't help with root cause, which seems to be some fundamental lack of self-confidence. I never see truly confident people fail to acknowledge the folks around them.
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@oddhack@mstdn.social 2026-07-06 14:17
@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz I was at Caltech back in the day, and talked with enough of the (distressingly few) female undergraduates, then and later, to grasp the patterns. People can be jerks in many other respects, but misogyny is a distinct pattern in science and engineering that deserves to be treated as such, not folded into a general criticism. I understand that after decades of glacial progress, the gender balance at Caltech is near parity.May it stay that way in the Former US.