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EECS = electrical engineering and computer science? I don’t think the professor was saying anything regarding the fact that women cannot do well in the field,
by dotcoma 3y ago
EECS = electrical engineering and computer science?
I don’t think the professor was saying anything regarding the fact that women cannot do well in the field, not at all. That would have been terrible, I agree.
- _zn8u 3y agoYes, that's the name of Berkeley's department. If you're from a minority group in an area, it is _extremely_ unpleasant to hear yourself being talked about as if you're the object of a tactical military operation. "Artillery distance", really. Agree that if he'd said that women can't do well in the field, that would be much worse.
- dotcoma 3y agoI don’t think the professor was talking about his female students, but rather about the average woman in the Bay Area (but I don’t know for sure, of course). Artillery distance just means 100 miles or something like that. I agree that saying “keep 100 miles from the Bay Area” would have sounded better, but I don’t think it’s that important (again, just how I read it).
- inferiorhuman 3y ago[flagged]
- nec4b 3y agoYou are not a minority for being a women. There is more women on earth than men.
- __blockcipher__ 3y agoDoubly so in the bay area