Well, well. I’m sure if you were a full-time caregiver to children or ill parents or if you had medical or psychological conditions (disability, injury, illness, major stress) to deal with you’d get over yourself right quick. Congratulations, you sound like a lot of fun.

As a woman in science, I say yes, it was easier for Lander to dismiss Doudna and Charpentier because they are women. I see this on an almost daily basis in meetings. A woman can make a suggestion for a program and it is ignored. A man can repeat her suggestion verbatim less than 5 minutes later, and he is hailed as a…

Why not both?

I’d say the dispute in and of itself isn’t gendered, but the narrative Lander has been using to consistently dismiss Doudna’s and Charpentier’s achievements very much is (this isn’t the first time he’s attempted to write the history in a way that favors Zhang). He has relied on the old chestnut describing Doudna et…

Well I do. As history shows, time and time again, female contributions are minimised or just outright stolen. Just look at Rosalind Franklin, to name the most famous case. She should have been named on the paper, she should have posthumously won that Noble Prize, but Watson did his absolute best to portray her as a…

Punctuality is a cultural value that didn’t really exist in the West until the advent of cheap watches in the late 19th century. I wish more people understood this and got off their high horse.

I suspect my brother does have an attention problem. I do too but I get where I need to be on time. He can’t focus on one thing at a time so while preparing to leave he sees something else he needs to do and then another thing. I’ve seen him at home and at the office it makes m e go bonkers.

He may have ADHD. Idk, I’m habitually late to everything no matter how hard I try to be on time. Every morning the last 10-25 minutes before I walk out the door are like some kind of time warp where things that I think should a combined 2-10 minutes take way longer and all of a sudden I should have been out the door…

Potomac Persians = would watch the hell out of that.

This is what I was thinking because there is no way that Potomac could be considered “diverse” compared to like, any other county within 10-20 miles of DC. Fairfax might actually be more diverse.

Potomac is only ‘diverse’ within the context of Montgomery County. Also, I’m *shocked* that they didn’t try to assemble a cast of Potomac Persians because frankly that would have been far more entertaining!

You have to take that family income number with a grain of salt. Even in Potomac, there’s a pretty sizable proportion of people who are retired, so their incomes are low but their housing may be very expensive, which will pull down the average. It’s also the income you list on your taxes, which people work very hard…

Nah, come on, you can totally rent a 2 bedroom for that.

I can’t think of any area around DC that would make a good Housewives show. I lived around and in Baltimore, and we lived briefly in “Hunt Valley” (a made up name so that the rich people could feel fancy and also not have to say Cockeysville). It was so fecking boring and the people were so uptight and preppy. The…

I was about to say, “What about Real Housewives of Olney!?” But it would literally just be a show about which of our 5 grocery stores has the best prices tbh. Also Field of Screams! Such an exciting place to grow up.

It’s why outside of NYC and Los Angeles, they don’t get real socialites.

Yeah. I was thinking the houses get bigger because you’re getting further away from DC. I have a friend whose mum used to have a small house in Maryland. It was a half million dollars in value because it within walking distance of the DC Metro Red Line. Or so I was told.

That’s the average family income? As in, two people? Cuz I can be “rich” there too if that’s the case.

I guess it could be a rude assumption? But it’s also a pretty solid one. Whenever I tell people I grew up in the DC area it’s assumed that if not DC proper, then it’s likely PG County, which would be true. Those are largely the racial make ups of this area; white/non black people live mostly in Moco/No. VA, black…

with the average family bringing in $112,452 per year