"Yes. He has. He kind of treated me like I was disposable. He left, and went on a victory tour without me."

"As scientists we have no other choice to accept reality" aka the status quo.

The boob thing is weird, right? It's weird.

Exactly. The disparity between the two groups is shrinking, and that's a huge positive. Unfortunately, many people see the situation as zero-sum, and so when one side succeeds, the other must be doing worse. This is manifestly not the case.