IF he legit doesn’t show up, and IF he actually takes Ted Cruz up on his offer to go mano a mano for 90 minutes, this could be the bestest thing evar.
Speaking as a fellow tall lady, the height might help her out a bit. She’ll have to deal with insecure men of average height (because, in my anecdotal experience, the truly short men don’t care) feeling threatened, and all of the posturing that comes with that, but I’ve found that a lot of men seem to relish in being…
Exactly! I had a first year assistant professor (from a different university than the one I go to) tell me, at the time a 4th year PhD student in the same field that the reason he had a hard time finding a good job is because all the universities wanted to hire women and he was told that he was the most qualified but…
Does she also maybe have an interest in martial arts?
Thank you. I think I need to get out of here and into a place where I don’t have a track record of eating shit with a smile.
I would absolutely set something on fire if I had to miss meeting with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Probably the frat bro making me miss it. She makes me hate being a lawyer just a little bit less.
“conduct that is not only illegal but destroys the very fabric of our STEM community”
There’s a lot of variation from discipline to discipline, and subdiscipline to subdiscipline. For instance, there’s a lot more sexism in synthetic organic chemistry than physical chemistry. As far as I can tell, some subdisciplines historically had more women come up through the ranks than others over the years, or…
I clearly remember a group of four guys in my class leaning against the lab counters, shooting the shit about how women’s brains weren’t wired to be good at math and physics, while I stuck tiny wires on a breadboard for our group’s electronics final. I didn’t get sexually assaulted in the field, but I know women who…
It’s so nice to be away from him, isn’t it? My (Humanities) supervisor once said I did a “good job” with a talk. When I asked what exactly I should replicate in the future he said, “Well, you didn’t sound like a teenage girl.”
I had a wonderful PI. He was just GREAT, very supportive, etc, but he was old and had ideas, however ingrained, about how men and women were to act. So while he supported countless women in his lab, I would be talked to for being “tactless” in during debates and conversations. I wasn’t tactless, there just wasn’t a…
Anyone in any STEM field who says there isn’t a problem with sexism, harassment, and even open misogyny is either part of the problem, an ostrich, or simply a liar. It’s absolutely pervasive. You can start an impassioned argument by asking a group of engineers whether MRAs outnumber feminists in any particular field.
Sad but true. Essentially any place where men are the dominant power forces have hidden sexual abuse and harassment scandals because men get away with it. No male-dominated industry has escaped it.
I suspect it had a lot to do with the grandparent’s own DCF history. It’s very true that one report can haunt you for a long time but it appears that they had a recurrent history with DCF reporting that didn’t result in the birth mother being removed from the household as a child (and maybe she was but there’s no…
Gross. I was wondering if there was more. Now I wish I didn’t know.
Sara’s father may have sexually abused her when she was 4. Given Sara’s IQ, Dana is a product of rape/iffy consent. Yeah, let’s let another little girl live in that home.
I agree that her only getting 2 hours a month to see her baby is bullshit, though I’m inclined to believe there is a lot more to the story than we know especially if her own parents were sketchy and in the system themselves.
(Sara’s parents, additionally, had a history of DCF investigation and intervention in the ‘90s, and weren’t the most fit secondary choices, either.)
I think you’re completely right she needed, and still needs, help and support. But taking the baby away and only allowing her 1 hour twice a month is ridiculous. Ideally, she would have been referred for help by her OB before birth to gain some of the basics like diapering and CPR and then a home visit nurse would…