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Subject: Re: Some of the stupid people you can have in govt.
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:43:42 -0400
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On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:12:36 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:50:31 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
>wrote:
>
>>“After realizing the lack of LGBTQ+ visibility in marine science led her to 
>>abandon her childhood dream, Nicole Morris decided to re-route her life path 
>>to try and become a marine biologist, to conserve endangered rays,” a 
>>description of the film, posted to the National Park Service website reads.
>>
>>“All I was ever exposed to were documentaries that had the perspectives of 
>>straight men,” Morris bemoans in the documentary. “As I got older it became 
>>harder and harder to imagine myself in those films,” she says before later 
>>adding, “So I had to ask myself ‘was marine science something that a queer 
>>woman could do?’”
>
>Which to me is ridiculous.

Yeah, I never understood why people feel the need to have someone to
look up to in that field that they want to enter. I never considered a
career because of who was in it. Only if I was interested in doing
that for a lifetime and could I earn a living. I didn't know anyone in
my first choice of a field (Chemical Engineering) and still can't name
anyone in it. 

Now the career I did choose had a fair number of women in it (at least
at the schools I went to) from the beginning. So clearly women didn't
feel that they had to know some female computer science person before
entering the field.

>Scientifically the value of her work is how it's evaluated by her
>profefssional peers, not her gender identity.

That's true, but I will acknowledge that depending on where you are
you can run into sexism that could work against her. Not everywhere,
by any means, but the stories are out there.
>
>While I appreciate the sciences used to be an all-male domain that was
>then this is now and hasn't been the case for a very long time.
>
>So my response to the question in the last line of your quote is "of
>course you can - go for it!"