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  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    1 year ago

    oh yeah, and i know talking about mansplaining and shit is out of fashion, but in my experience it is always men. i'm in a science, i have a masters degree, and yet still constantly men try to explain my field to me (sometimes even men whom i know and thought would be a little smarter and/or less sexist about that sort of thing) because they've read a fucking wiki page or listened to a podcast. there's never any thought put into the idea of sources or biases or just the simple fact that even when wiki pages are right they're still condensing decades of study into one page.

    the amount of "dark matter is bullshit", "don't worry, we'll technology our way out of climate change", "you know, scientists are all getting paid to say this stuff", "scientists don't actually know [whatever]" that i have to deal with is insanity inducing. absolute worst guy, and even worse when combined with socioeconomic/political biases