Anon said:
*tired sexist noises*
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This is kinda interesting to me because maybe if STEM environments were actually as inviting as my Women’s Studies classes were, I would have felt conformable there and pursued another educational career path. But they weren’t. And I didn’t. So, yeah, I’ll be one for those women with the signs hoping I can raise awareness so that girls who come behind me have all options really open to them.
As a woman in a STEM career path (I think ultrasound tech counts??? Even if it doesn’t, I’m still super involved in STEM classes and programs at my college) I can say that I don’t see many women. Why aren’t there more women in STEM? Because the girls my age are, quite frankly, too busy sucking dick for empowerment and trying to contour like Kim K to give a damn about their educations, and then they have the audacity to complain about female representation in STEM. Teach your little girls to value intelligence above all else, and maybe they’ll consider pursuing STEM.
Wow this response was just embarrassing. Internalized Misogyny, slut shaming, the fuckin works.
Internalized misogyny is a fancy name for Stockholm syndrome. Women are not victims of men. Quit teaching little girls to be victims.
Oh…my god.
My first week at uni i met one of the deans at a party. First he asked me if I was someone’s girlfriend, then When he found out I was pre-med he told me that, as a woman, it would be hard for me to get into med school.
Then he told me to look on the bright side “at least you aren’t Asian!”
That being said, most of my classmates were women and in my experience they were much more mature and competent than our male cohorts.
I dropped my stem degree because sexism in the classroom made it really difficult to actually learn anything. If a guy got stuck and asked for help he’d be given a hint and left to finish the work once he was back on track. If I asked a question someone would take over and do it for me. You can’t learn that way. When uni cut my other department and started phasing out papers I couldn’t finish both sides of my double degree. Computer science lost.
When I was at university many of the classes I took were dominated by males. It can be quite intimidating if you are not prepared for it.
The worst, by far, in my experience, was computer science. A lot of the guys already knew a bit about computer science, and boy did they think they were so much better than me, who was actually there to learn. I was lucky in that my tutor was female, she was probably the only female tutor.
My worst experience taking computer science, was when one time I was struggling with a particular assignment and asked a male friend for help. While in the computer lab another male came over and the two of them began this kind of display of dominance, arguing about the best way to solve that assignment, while I just sat between them feeling no less confused.
The good news is I got A’s in that paper, but I didn’t take computer science past first year.