sometimes i think about the unbelievable waste of talent that goes into systematically abusing women out of entire industries and the stuff we'll never read and the perspectives we'll never hear and the music that will never drop and i get so angry i could bite a football in half.
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Marisa Kabas
EXCLUSIVE: I interviewed a dozen women about what it was like to be a staffer at Jann Wenner’s Rolling Stone (in light of his recent comments.) They described an office culture of “palpable fear” that was “a horrible place for women.”
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Back in the old days, before any of the modern feminist movements happened, apparently women were physically unable to invent, create, or research almost anything!
This is obviously because... 1/*
So a lot worked with their husbands or professors and did incredible work... 2/*
The most interesting example I know is of Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier, yes, that Lavoisier. Who was a chemist, and worked as "assistant" in her...3/*
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it's heartbreaking.
Explained that who was 'really valuable' was interpreted through the lens of bias, that they were firing some of their best & brightest.
They had trouble believing it...
Like, it was so clear they'd never considered how it might affect their workplace, yet they were 100% certain that the only woman in their department did bad work, despite never working on a team with her.
I asked if they'd worked with her.
No.
I asked if they'd seen her code.
Also no.
They just knew she was no good.
So I asked them HOW they knew...
Apparently, "everyone knows"...
Like, how can anyone be that clueless?
Whose orders?
I'm not incredulous. I'm certain that you're telling the truth, and that's why I'm angry: that public health is being endangered in part because male-supremacism.