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think positive 
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How about the age gap!
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David
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I know I just posted this in the other thread, but... *shrug* each to their own. 
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stui magpie 
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| think positive wrote: | | How about the age gap! |
I got a few looks today in the hospital with the grandson and his mum.
One of the nurses called me the Dad, which generated a bit of mirth
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think positive
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Cmon now you bristled with pride! I chuckle every time Facebook tags my picture as my 8 years younger sister, funny, she doesn’t get it!
Good onya!
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| Mmmm sooo hard to answer this one. Easier in some ways, much harder in others. I wouldn't want to experience being a 'girl in STEM' not if it's as bad as they say it is. |
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| Nick - Pie Man wrote: | | ... I wouldn't want to experience being a 'girl in STEM' not if it's as bad as they say it is. |
How bad do they say it is, and who is doing the saying? I am sceptical of the claim that the STEM environment is worse than others. |
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HAL
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| A foolish substitution of what can be measured for what you want to know the extent of sexism in field x is a terrible thing to waste. |
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stui magpie
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| K wrote: | | Nick - Pie Man wrote: | | ... I wouldn't want to experience being a 'girl in STEM' not if it's as bad as they say it is. |
How bad do they say it is, and who is doing the saying? I am sceptical of the claim that the STEM environment is worse than others. |
Pity the girls.
Apart from the poor personal hygiene, chronic halitosis and junk food induced flatulence, they have to put up with the leers of a group who's only communication with females has been with their mother, school teachers and the occasional nurse when they get an Avengers action figure somehow lodged in their rectum.
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| stui magpie wrote: | ...
Apart from the poor personal hygiene, chronic halitosis and junk food induced flatulence, they have to put up with the leers of a group who's only communication with females has been with their mother, school teachers and the occasional nurse when they get an Avengers action figure somehow lodged in their rectum. |
Okay, I take it this is the one way to distinguish them from non-STEMers: the non-STEMers are the ones who get an aromatic, functioning bong somehow lodged in the rectum. |
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Nick - Pie Man
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| K wrote: | | Nick - Pie Man wrote: | | ... I wouldn't want to experience being a 'girl in STEM' not if it's as bad as they say it is. |
How bad do they say it is, and who is doing the saying? I am sceptical of the claim that the STEM environment is worse than others. |
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| The direction this thread has headed in reminded me of the case of the Google employee manifesto and subsequent firing. Are you familiar with it? If so, what are your thoughts on it? If not, I'll drag out some details and provide links here. |
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Mountains Magpie
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Pardon me for asking, but isn't it frightfully un-PC in 2018 to suggest there's only two genders?  
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| And what makes you think "opposite" has to imply "two"? |
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David
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| Mountains Magpie wrote: | | Pardon me for asking, but isn't it frightfully un-PC in 2018 to suggest there's only two genders? |
Haha, fair call. I’m not sure where I stand on all that stuff. On the one hand, I get that gender is a construct (by definition). And I totally get wanting to opt out of the gender binary altogether and even wanting to be referred to as neither “her” nor “him” (after all, we recognise intersex as a real fact of life in humans and all other mammalian species, so why is the idea of being “intergender” so weird?). But anything beyond that does start to get into the realm of wanting to be a magical unicorn, I think, and is perhaps a sign of identity politics indulging itself a little too much.
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| Certain countries' passports allow one now to specify a "neither" category. I'm not sure exactly what the wording is. I'm not sure exactly which countries either. (Probably one is Canada. Not Oz, right?) |
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