#AcademicSky In the spirit of this, anti-shoutout to my family for the unrealistic expectations. It's that time of the year again where they make it a point that they have the money and connections to ruin my life (even if I sever all ties with them) if I don't live up to their absurd demands. 1/18 - ThreadSky

totientquotient.bsky.social • 19 hours ago

#AcademicSky
In the spirit of this, anti-shoutout to my family for the unrealistic expectations. It's that time of the year again where they make it a point that they have the money and connections to ruin my life (even if I sever all ties with them) if I don't live up to their absurd demands.
1/18

Reposted from Adriana Guatame-García

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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totientquotient.bsky.social•19 hours ago

No thank you to my father who kicked my door into my face when I merely alluded to the possibility of going to a not-top-20 uni for grad school. No thank you to my mother for telling me how "only r*t*rds like [family friend]" go to UWaterloo or Georgia Tech.
2/18

totientquotient.bsky.social•19 hours ago

No thank you to my father for being so irrationally superstitious - just because a fortune teller and your favorite deity says I can get into MIT (I didn't) doesn't mean you can justify all your unrealistic expectations and hostile behavior towards me based on that.
3/18

totientquotient.bsky.social•19 hours ago

No thank you to my mother for scolding me for getting an A (instead of A*) in English when I was 16. Yes, you may have an Eng lit degree, but that was decades ago, not to mention that your comments on my English assignments have already been unhelpful for multiple years.
4/18

totientquotient.bsky.social•19 hours ago

No thank you to both parents for being vehemently against privacy as a human right, for removing door locks, for installing CCTVs in our flat, for forcing all my phone calls to be put on speaker, and for not allowing me to use ear/headphones.
5/18

totientquotient.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The only thing I commend is your commitment to do the same, but no thank you to the inconvenience caused by that - I'm tired of listening to all your work calls put on speaker and all the music blasted across the flat instead of using headphones and keeping it to yourself.
6/18

totientquotient.bsky.social•19 hours ago

No thank you to both parents for bombarding me with hyper-social-Darwinist rhetoric since childhood, for teaching me that empathy is for the foolish & weak, for making me a hateful person, and for abusing blue-collar & service industry workers as a demonstration of how the world "should" work.
7/18

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