I’m a guy who works in another tiny, male-dominated field, and what you’re saying is so real. The amount of proof that women have to produce in order to substantiate sexual misconduct by their male coworkers is ridiculous, especially considered relative to the damage a single dude can do to a woman’s career prospects…

I am half-assed brave. All these other women have come out and shared their stories publicly. I have talked to the two women who blew this story up in private and have vaguely said on Twitter that I had a story and supported Amber and the others and thanked for Judy and Beth listening, but I am not ready to share what…

This happened to me after my assault. I had to keep reminding myself....pretend my story is coming from a friend, what would my reaction be? THAT is how I need to handle it. I’m way braver for other woman than I am for myself. I don’t know how to deal with that fact.

That’s the sort of socialization we need to fix. The Stephen A Smith’s going “well what did Janay Rice do to provoke the behavior?” Everyone is imperfect, everyone makes mistakes, so it’s easy to shift the blame, if we want to. Instead, we need to just focus on the assholes committing the crimes.

With my story, it’s because I thought I brought it on myself. I was not sober. I felt like shit for putting myself in a position where something like this would happen. For freezing up and not pushing him away when I was very uncomfortable and afraid of speaking up and thinking “maybe deal with this, he will go away…

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?

Some of these medicines had 300 or 400 ingredients. Of course, some of the indigenous plants they use are extinct now but there’s evidence that these were not just placebo-potions;

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…

Life or Death has a zero tolerance policy for the type of conduct alleged in today’s on-line postings. We take these allegations very seriously.

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…

One course I took was Medieval Medicine: A Feminist Perspective. One of the most interesting courses I’ve ever taken. Turns out, our whole modern notion of witchcraft is based on a concerted campaign of discrediting medicine women, some of whom had vast amounts- double digit generations’ worth- of plant based…

Yeah, they took her data without her permission while she was in the process of getting it published. And they were horrible sexist douches to her.

I partially agree. I think it’s not a gender specific erasure, but rather Lander wanting to bolster more credibility to Zhang and Broad. But I do wonder if they felt like this was something they COULD do because she’s a woman when thinking of the probability of winning the patent dispute (and actively reducing her…

I agree that their gender probably isn’t WHY they’re being written out—but don’t you think it’s still significant in the big picture that systemic power is feeding into a situation where women could potentially not get top billing for technology that they pioneered (and thus not get the monetary rewards or…

But do you think Doudna and Charpentier being women made it easier for Lander to dismiss their contributions?

THAT IS BULLSHIT. I believe you’re in med school, correct? I’ve been an attending for a decade, and it STILL happens to me. I recently took a steaming piece of shit first draft and completely re-wrote it for the senior author. For a phase IV trial for which I was co-PI. I was also the person who accrued/treated the…

Oh, she got thoroughly screwed at the time too. It wasn’t just cos she died later.

Par for the course, I’m afraid. Any woman working in a scientific field (or perhaps ANY field, for that matter) has a story about the time (or times) her male co-workers or superiors have taken credit for her work. Hell, there’s the time-honored tradition of the “senior author,” where the first author is compelled to…

Let’s reflect for a moment on Bessie Coleman - the first African American woman to obtain a pilot’s license... but not in America which wouldn’t allow her to learn to fly - even black flight instructors refused to train this manicurist. So she taught herself French and in 1920 traveled to France and learned to fly…