But when I went to those group meetings, I felt like I didn't belong because I wasn't a femme cis woman and didn't talk about weddings and babies.
Oh man, this is exactly why I wasn't a part of the Feminist Research Group in grad school: There seemed to be this tacit assumption that Women in ScienceTM aspire, behave, and identify in certain approved ways -- so if you don't, you're ipso facto either not a woman, or not a scientist...
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Date: 2012-12-31 11:50 pm (UTC)Oh man, this is exactly why I wasn't a part of the Feminist Research Group in grad school: There seemed to be this tacit assumption that Women in ScienceTM aspire, behave, and identify in certain approved ways -- so if you don't, you're ipso facto either not a woman, or not a scientist...