Grrrrr. This happens so often. I was always underestimated in school, and some of my male classmate’s comments suggested a sick entitlement over getting good grades at my expense. Like “how could you pull this off?” as if their dicks somehow gave them a cerebral advantage. And no, it doesn’t end in the work place.

THIS. I’m a chemical oceanography PhD student. I speak up all the time. Do great work. But every time I meet a new scientist, we have to go through the thing where they assume I am not as good as my male colleagues. Said colleagues pretend they get it is messed up, but don’t hesitate to enjoy and take advantage of the…

You've just described my entire career.

I’m in the midst of completeing a doctorate (full funding, federal scholarships, all of the things.) and the same applies. I talk about this with colleagues (profs - even full profs!, postdocs, fellow grad students) and no matter how excellent our scholarship, men of all stripes (regardless of level of education or…

This is so true. I am thinking of pulling aside each of my female students and encouraging them to talk up more but that just puts the onus on them to change boys’ minds rather than, you know, boys not to be shits.

OMG this! My threshold for contributing to class is that I thoroughly understand the material AND have something substantial AND novel to add. With guys, they seem to believe they’re blessing the proceedings with the sound of their inane, uninformed fucking voices.

i’m sure these aren’t the same guys who talk over female colleagues 5 years later.

It’s a lot of ego. And god forbid a woman take an interest in something like family law. I got a verbal pat on the head every time someone discovered that my biggest ambition wasn’t to be partner in a huge corporate law office.

100% sure that this kind of bias will not stop dudes from letting the woman in their study groups do all of the work.

After TAing more than a dozen classes, I wish I could say I was even a little bit surprised by this. Moderately prepared male students speak up more than the highest-achieving female students, and then other students assume they must know what they’re talking about or they wouldn’t volunteer so much. Exceptions…

“Something under the conscious is going on,” Grunspan said. “For 18 years, these [young men] have been socialized to have this bias.”

obama was/is an INSANELY good campaigner

He’s running such an incredible grassroots campaign, its like being in 2008 again (though admittedly Obamas campaign was better and game changing) unlike Obama though Bernie has over 20 years of proof of his consistency with his messages. I'm genuinely enjoying this race.

Only the fourth time I’ve cried during RAW; thankfully, this is the first time it’s happened with a guy getting out when he can, and not during a memorial show.

Probably one of the best retirement speeches in sports or sports entertainment. This is why this guy was so loved - yes, he was the underdog, but he was genuine and selfless. His sport may be fake, but his personality was not and people gravitated toward it. He reminds me a lot of Mick Foley in that way.