No. If “being sick” was seen as weakness, you wouldn’t linger for weeks with the flu instead of getting a prescription for antibiotics that would cure it in a couple of days. Sociology would also have a field day with your comment. Your disdain for women wanting granite countertops, the very thing that keeps you…

What’s even scarier is that when victims do call the police, and the police do nothing, the victim is often left in even more danger than before the call. This is because the abuser feels more betrayal and less powerful after dealing with the police. When the police just up and leave the situation like that, they are…

I feel like there’s probably one woman he works with that leaves an extra 15 min early once a week to pick up kids or something and he just HATES IT, BRO

Reminds me of the time I (female mechanical engineer) was cut at the last round to speak at a TEDx conference in favor of a dude talking on, I shit you not, “Guitar Awareness”. My topic? The challenges faced by young women and girls interested in engineering, and how to help beat that system. There were no female…

Yeah, that was the head-scratcher for me, too! I thought the whole thing was supposed to be that women are healthier than men, because we only work safe dainty little non-taxing jobs, or some shit? In addition to having the longer lifespan.

Men generally aren't healthier because not only do they inherit more problems thru the Y chromosome (which isn't always a gender indicator, but mostly male-identifying people have it), but also because of 'Male Stoicism' which is socio/psycho term that describes the fact that because men are socialised to be less…

Reading is hard.

We have an old geezer in our department who likes to recommend rejection of papers by people who aren’t established yet in the field, especially women, because obviously if they are just starting out, they don’t know anything yet and can’t be trusted. And women shouldn’t even be doing science anyway. He’s about 85…

Yeah, one of my labmates gave me no end of grief for being “politically correct” and “going overboard on diversity” when I was sorting through applications to hire an undergrad assistant, and the people I brought in for interviews were ~60% women and ~3/4 non-white. It didn’t even occur to him that these could…

I’m sure that extra 15 minutes of work per week is totally due to “marginally better health and stamina” in men, and not, say, to women still being responsible for the lion’s share of housework and childcare.

You have to stand in awe at how he derides them for “ideologically biased assumptions” and in the next sentence uses his own ideological biased assumptions as his reason to reject this paper. Wow.

Why the assumption their conclusions were biased? The conclusions, if you read her explanation, were rather innocuous in and of themselves. And to suggest she add a man as co-author is ironic considering the content of the paper itself is partially about the numbers of papers published by men vs. women and how it…

Don’t we ladies live longer.....

“Thank you for feedbcak. We strife to aspire to the levl of qulaity befitting PLoS. Many ragards."

I’m fairly certain there was a study done where papers authored by women were more likely to be accepted when only their initials were used, or names were expunged from the manuscript altogether, or something like that.

1. Reviewing other’s work brings out the asshat in almost everyone. Scientific reviewers feel an obligation to tough and rigorous, which is fine. But too often it’s a license to be a jerk. I often see reviews that make it quite clear that the reviewer didn’t actually read the paper, because point-for-point every…

Disgusting. Sadly enough, this sort of shit happens in the humanities as well as the hard sciences. I once presented a paper on the rape of German women by Soviet soldiers in 1945, only to have a peer suggest that because I wasn’t a man, I “couldn’t understand what it was like for those soldiers” — as though a) I…

The reviewer also suggests that male doctoral candidates may have co-authored more papers than females because they can work on average 15 minutes longer per week.

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