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WaPo 'Science'- ' This Is Not A Miss America Contest': Sexism In Science, Research Challenged (archive.is)
posted 5 years ago by Ahaus667 5 years ago by Ahaus667 +43 / -0
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– AntonioOfVenice 32 points 5 years ago +32 / -0

And then they came for science. Their Reverse Hand of Midas is turns everything they touch to absolute shit.

As if these rabid feminist nutjobs don't get enough preferential treatment in science as it is.

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– AntonioOfVenice 12 points 5 years ago +12 / -0

Are you concerned about these people possibly killing off patients who are male?

No. These 'people' are all talk.

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– RaisingPhoenix 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Their ineptitude may get people killed however, intentionally or not.

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– christianknight 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Is this before or after they encourage abortion of boys and encourage chemical castration via puberty blockers...

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– TheRedThirst 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

you could say... that they dont have the balls to do it...

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– 666sadfrogs 25 points 5 years ago +25 / -0

Women being let into STEM was a mistake.

I’m fairly certain that if a male had been posting photos of himself sexually posing in a speedo, it would also be considered unprofessional.

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– TechParadox 15 points 5 years ago +15 / -0

Rabble Rabble "Gender Gap", Rabble Rabble "Sexism", Rabble Rabble Rabble Rabble. I'm sorry, but if you showed me a dude who was going to be going into a residency for vascular surgery partying it up in a banana hammock down in Cabo, I'd be somewhat disinclined to vote them in to the program, too. Yes, people wear swimsuits and go on vacations. Doctors, too. But as a profession that is held to a higher standard of decorum, I'm not exactly going to put my faith behind someone who is a prospective M.D posting vacation selfies all over Insta and Twitter to attention-whore it up.

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– ailurus 10 points 5 years ago +10 / -0

The one article (about unprofessional behavior) is still available online, if anyone is interested: https://www.jvascsurg.org/article/S0741-5214(19)32587-X/pdf

The apparent offending paragraph:

Among those with a Facebook account, 193 (96%) accounts were visible to the public (ie, not set to private), 136 (68%) were male, 51 (25%) were integrated residents, 187 (93%) held MD degrees, and 84 (42%) self-identified as a vascular surgeon (Table I). There were 46 (23%) Facebook accounts that displayed evidence of either unprofessional or potentially unprofessional content where four (2%) accounts had clearly unprofessional content and 61 (30.4%) contained evidence of potentially unprofessional content (Table II). There were no instances of HIPAA violations and the most common forms of potentially unprofessional content were holding alcohol (25 accounts, 12.4%) and controversial political/religious/social comments (20 accounts, 10%). Inappropriate attire included pictures in underwear, provocative Halloween costumes, and provocative posing in bikinis/swimwear. Controversial political and religious comments were any derogatory or demeaning comments directed to ward an individual or specific faith. Controversial social comments were largely limited to comments centered around specific stances on abortion and gun control.

So, yeah, willing to bet that the actual story here is that this would-be doctor got offended at being (indirectly) told "a lot of your public social media stuff is not appropriate if you're going to be a doctor" and decided to scream "SEXIST!" instead of just switching the setting to private.

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– the_nybbler 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

The original article is pretty stupid, but it does say that there was no difference in unprofessional behavior by sex, so making this about sexism is also stupid.

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– realerfunction 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

"sexism" never existed

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– Throwawaycuzmeh 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

paper recommends against provocative posing in swimwear/bikinis

provocative posing

She then proceeds to post the most benign picture ever of herself in a bikini top with shorts. What a disingenuous cunt.

No one is being rejected for jobs based on milquetoast swimsuit pics on Facebook. Employers are looking out for indicators for potential problems, and an Instagram thott regularly showing her thinly-veiled vag to the world is a gigantic red flag.

Deliberately conflating this behavior with "any female wearing any swimsuit in any context" is a pathetic attempt to reframe good advice as somehow sexist. And why? Because women don't want to hear any guidance that suggests constraining their behavior in any way - especially not from some man.

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– donaldthrow 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

This whole thing was just a reverse-psychology trick by the authors.

"You hot babes better not post any sexy bikini pics!"
"You can't tell us what to do!" Posts bikini pics

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– deleted 19 points 5 years ago +19 / -0

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