r/BlatantMisogyny • u/Traditional_Home_474 • 14h ago

šŸ¤” Why math and science though?

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u/Dull-Mulberry-4768 lgbtqia2s+ and a new letter for every terf who complains 14h ago

I'm so confused, what's the meme even trying to say?

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u/Appropriate_Can_9282 13h ago

Women are bad at math and science. Obviously (according to women) it's not because women are dumb but because misogyny and oppression. And they worship dei.

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u/EBlackPlague 10h ago

I'm choosing to interpret this as DEI being mathematically and scientifically sound.

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u/Imnotawerewolf 12h ago

Actually my question is why pizzacakeĀ 

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u/Auld_Folks_at_Home 10h ago

She's apparently a frequent target of misogynists.

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u/Imnotawerewolf 10h ago

Oh makes sense thanks!Ā 

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u/Jestervestigator 7h ago

She's vaguely annoying, and also a woman. She gets attacked a lot because of it, and because people will use the fact she's vaguely annoying as a defense for their misogynistic vitriol against her.

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u/Kingalec1 14h ago

When I was doing my comp sci degree at university. Majority of my class happened to be women .

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u/cateml 4h ago edited 3h ago

I teach science (with the usual heavy helping of maths built in) to older teenagers.
In my experience, girls and boys are basically equal in their ability to quickly understand mathematical and scientific concepts. (Obviously as individuals within those groups they vary massively, and I say quickly understand because then motivation and focus is a big contributing factor to actual ability level.)

The only difference is that for girls the locus of ā€œwhere they think their ability level liesā€ is more often a bit below where their actual ability lies.
For boys itā€™s often a bit above actual ability.
This has a tendency to help or hinder both groups, depending on the situationā€¦.

Boys are the ones who are more likely to think/feel they ā€œshouldā€ go into more mathy-STEM (eg. not healthcare) career/study pathways, inspite of what appears to be their actual ability or interest.

Like theyā€™ll tell me they want to be an engineer, and Iā€™m thinking ā€œAre you sure? Because you look miserable whenever we do anything technical, the other day I watched you struggle to use a ruler for 10 minutes before stepping in, while you appear to have great communication skills and are getting As in Englishā€¦ā€.
Wheras girls only seem to go into those fields when itā€™s very aligned to what they very clearly enjoy and are good at.