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It also paints the past in I think a more mean spirited light than it actually was. Like I think male scientists a long time ago found the idea of women being i
by pfannkuchen 3y ago
It also paints the past in I think a more mean spirited light than it actually was. Like I think male scientists a long time ago found the idea of women being in the field absurd, like a dog using a computer. If a dog is trying to use a computer you might not help them and you might laugh at them, but it’s not like you would bury the evidence of a dog successfully using a computer, you would probably find it amazing!
- sandspar 3y agoI think hostility is easier for people to bear than indifference. A narrative of "they kept us down" implies that you're important enough for them to give you attention. Indifference might be especially humiliating when one's self-concept becomes wrapped up in a sense of one's own growing power. "I've been growing and growing and growing, and yet they're still not respecting me?" I think a tiger, viewing itself as powerful, would find it more humiliating to be a pet than to live in a cage.