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If as an academic you can't handle joking criticism, you've chosen the wrong field.
by nostrebored 8y ago
If as an academic you can't handle joking criticism, you've chosen the wrong field.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885333 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885333 And, again, this is about industry networking opportunities. It's not just social awkwardness at stake.
- nostrebored 8y agoDrink virgin drinks. I go through frequent periods of not drinking that don't inhibit me from going to bars or going on business lunches. It doesn't escape me that these people are women. My wife has had similar experience in literally every other opt in social activity in our field. Have you considered that maybe it's not a hazard of not drinking, but rather a consequence of being a woman in a professional world that is hostile to them?
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoI would be rather surprised if women didn't get more stick for teetotaling than men do. I'm not sure why you think that's a refutation of anything.