things that happened to me when i was a woman in STEM:
an advisor humiliated me in front of an entire lab group because of a call I made in his place when he wouldn't reply to my e-mails for months
he later delegated part of my master's thesis work to a 19-year old male undergrad without my approval
a male scientist at a NASA conference looked me up and down and asked when i was graduating and if i was open to a job at his company. right before inquiring what my ethnicity was because i "looked exotic"
a random male member of the public began talking over me and my female advisor, an oceanographer with a pHD and decades of experience, saying he knew more about oceanography than us
things that have happened to me since becoming a man in STEM:
being asked consistently for advice on projects despite being completely new to a position
male colleagues approaching me to drop candid information regarding our partners / higher ups that I was not privy to before
lenience toward my work in a way I haven't experienced before. incredible understanding when I need to take time off to care for my family.
conference rooms go silent when I start talking. no side chatter. I get a baseline level of attention and focus from people that's very unfamiliar and genuinely difficult for me to wrap my head around.
like. yes some PI's will still be assholes regardless of the gender of their subordinates but, I've lived this transition. misogyny in STEM is killing women's careers, and trans men can and do experience male privilege.
Im going to throw up I need this old man
Yknow what like yes Im a Brendon Urie hater and a Ryan Ross lover that's very typical but I really am just enamored by Nearly Witches (and cannot believe he seemed to not give a shit about it being finished) and I think the entire Vices and Virtues album is underrated in general but like
THESE LYRICS AUAUGGH.... I've heard them countless times yet they still get me every single time I dont even care how basic and simple minded that makes me I am a man of simple desires let me live
Saw some funny redraws of @unpeeled-human 's comic panels and it really reminded me of how every spirit in the first season reacted to Mob.
The cruelty of racist white men.
seen one too many dungeon meshi fanarts of marcille with big boobs. she would not fucking have those. if you cannot make marcille donato sexy without giving her big naturals you are weak and will not survive the winter
women’s bodies weren’t “made” to do anything, nature didn’t “intend” anything, no human action is “unnatural” and there is no inherent “purpose” to a human life
I was listening to the connoreatspants elon musk fortnite interview bc i wanted to laugh at elon musk but man I can't believe I didn't realize how brazenly nazistic he was even before he straight sieg heiled. Like I knew that he was a nazi for a long time but going back and hearing him talk about social pathogens and the west falling while playing fortnite really got me. Got me even more annoyed with how he and every other neo-nazi has been permitted to deflect criticism by saying they're "not antisemitic" or "I support israel so I can't be a nazi."
I fuckin hate how the broad understanding of what a nazi is stops at antisemitism as if the only thing that made them bad was that they killed jews. Thats bc that was the ONE line they crossed too far. Everything else they believed ideologically: social pathogens, eugenics, cultural purity, and authoritarianism were all common ideas of the historical context the third reich was in. it wasn't until they went too far that they were recognized as bad (in the US at least, at least that's what got the manufacture of consent spinning) and even then the ideology of nazism has been erased in favor of JUST the antisemitism bc they didn't disagree with the rest of it. The ideology of fascism and nazism has been picked apart and talked about to death in universities which is why you have Jorkin Depeanus Vance calling professors the enemy.
she nothing on my nothing til i nothing. celibacy
*nonbinary person calls themself lesbian* "only women can be lesbian!"
*nonbinary person calls themself gay* "you're not attracted to the same gender though!"
*nonbinary person calls themself straight* "that doesn't make any sense!"
*nonbinary person calls themself trixic* "made up label!"
*nonbinary person calls themself toric* "unnecessary label!"
*nonbinary person calls themself gynosexual/romantic/etc.* "you're equating women with vaginas!"
*nonbinary person calls themself androsexual/romantic/etc.* "you're reducing men to penises!*
*nonbinary person calls themself skoliosexual/romantic/etc.* "nonbinary doesn't have a look! you can't be attracted to nonbinary people!"
*nonbinary person calls themself bi* "you're reinforcing the gender binary!"
*nonbinary person calls themself pan* "you're othering transgender people!"
*nonbinary person calls themself poly* "you're just trying to be special!"
*nonbinary person calls themself omni* "that's not a real thing!"
*nonbinary person calls themself ace/aro* "you're just a cisgender heterosexual invading the community!"
*nonbinary person calls themself queer* "that's too vague!"
*binary person uses a label to explicitly express attraction to nonbinary people* "you're fetishising nonbinary people!"
the thread that ties them all together isn't that our labels are wrong or don't make sense, it's that you don't want us to exist and hate on us no matter what we do.