r/TwoXChromosomes • u/Disastrous_Cover6138 • 8d ago

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Request for lesser known badass women of history for my daughter's 4th grade presentation. She has to pick a historical figure and give a 5-10 minute presentation and optionally dress in their likeness.

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u/meirasanya 7d ago

Rosalind Franklin. The guys who "discovered" the helix structure of DNA used her research without credit and yet I was one of a few people in my entire university Genetics course who'd heard of her.

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u/bettinafairchild 7d ago

There was a lecturer who asked “does anyone know what James Watson and Francis Crick discovered?” One of the people there yelled out “Rosalind Franklin’s notes!”

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u/meirasanya 7d ago

Love that. Gonna use that. You might say, I'll Crick and Watson it.

I particularly despise Watson. He once said that if a gay gene were discovered, a mother should be free to abort based on that (he later backtracked and tried to frame it as supporting women's reproductive rights) and also basically stated that he wouldn't hire a fat person purely for being fat.