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I’m not just going to assume that they are not a white guy just because the don’t like like a white guy to me.
I don’t know how they identify. I would need to hear this person directly say “I am not a white guy”.
Anyways I think that they seem pretty fly regardless of how they identify.
Then there’s me, knowing about Mary Somerville, confused, because the word was invented to include women. The term before was ‘man of science’ and it so seemed inappropriate a term for Mary. Hence: ‘scientist’.
If this turns out to be AI generated, I will be so upset!
What kind of white guy has a female Latina name?
Most biologist are women if I recall correctly.
If someone talks me about a discovery in biology I think my mind would automatically picture a woman as the author.
That’s awesome.
I’m not saying that my mind doesn’t default to a specific gender for some roles, like ballet dancer or lumberjack. Even some that are clearly relatively mixed but skewed gendered roles like nurse or police officer. But I don’t think of a “scientist” as a specific gender.
I think it’s great so many of you have apparently never had to consider racism or sexism in science.
I was just reminded that as recently as 60 years ago women were legally prohibited from opening a bank account in many places in America. As an example of sexism in society.
So, y’know. Progress. Eventually.
Everyone woman I know personally or have had the privilege to talk to about this topic has been raped and sexually assaulted including my mother, my grandmother, my wife, and my daughters.
I am not sure there really is progress anymore.
Have people been assuming they’re a white guy?
I can’t even really think of a context when discussing the cat when the scientists gender and especially race would come up?
I am normally pretty pessimistic, but can’t imagine this either, like someone would say “did you hear about that new cat they found?” not “hey, did you hear about that new cat some white, straight, Christian guy found?”
It appears to be a US American thing.
And here I was imagining a diverse group of scientists, because science is rarely done by just one person anyway.
I want to snuggle with the kitty.
At no point did I think of the scientists gender. I don’t think I ever have considered the gender of a scientist.
Hell another cat could’ve discovered this cat and I’d never know until someone mentioned it.
Holy fucking strawman
The name is Paola not Paolo so that should have been a hint right there.
I did not, I actually did not think about the scientist at all. I was distracted by the tiny cat. CAT!
I didn’t either. I kinda assumed it was them having a group of already identified cats and then doing science-y stuff and saying “wait! This one’s different!” And poof, new species.
That’s kinda exactly what happened. There were 4 known species. One cat ended up in a shelter that was not exactly like any of those, so they decided to take DNA from 35 cats from the 4 (now 5) species and showed the 5th was a separate species.
The tiny super cute cat.
so cute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilcayo#/media/File:Leopardus_tilcayo_(5x3_cropped).jpg
Look at this tiny house cat in a leopard costume
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