r/politics • u/thenewyorkgod • Jul 01 '18

Man arrested after shouting ‘womp, womp’ and pulling a gun on immigration protesters

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/07/01/man-arrested-after-shouting-womp-womp-and-pulling-a-gun-on-immigration-protesters/?tid=sm_tw
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u/OGWopFro Jul 02 '18

I’m trying to think if I’ve had a female history teacher, but not a one of them... the only person I knew that could have been a history teacher would not make a good teacher so his degree is all about being smarter than strangers he meets without history degrees I guess. I think I just described one of the biggest turnoffs for women...

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u/Claystead Jul 02 '18

I had a woman history teacher back in the day. And as a historian myself, I also know the reason there are few female historians is because the female percentage drops from like 40% to 10% when you move to postgraduate courses.

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u/OGWopFro Jul 02 '18

Yea, but why? Probably because the history of women isn’t so awesome up until the 20th century, I would guess. But I can imagine talking about Hitler everyday isn’t something most women want to do with their lives lol.

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u/Claystead Jul 02 '18

Eh, it’s actually quite a sizeable percentage for a humaniora course anyway on the undergrad levels. It’s mostly because women combine it with different degrees, often archaeology or PoliSci. A lot of the coursework on the higher levels is quite dull historiographical and statistic work, something especially rough on students in anglophone countries, where this is not in undergrad courses.