• jj4211@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I actually experienced this exact same scenario, where someone accused me of being an idiot on a topic and referenced me to educate myself on a paper that I myself wrote. Dude was a white male, but I am too.

      Hilarious because when he threw that at me I told him to look at the author and he doubled down that I was wrong, and I didn’t understand the nuance of the paper I wrote.

      Short of it is people can be condescending douches even without sexism.

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        8 months ago

        Particularly in academia, which is a broad field that seems to draw in some seriously smug arseholes.

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          8 months ago

          If the original sexist behaviour was typically done by women to other women just as often as by men, the gender of the perpetrator wouldn’t matter,.

          Fact of the matter is that this kind of shutting women up and taking down to them is overwhelmingly done by men.

          That’s true in the business world, academic world, etc.

          Considering this, this is a key piece of information about the situation, not a sexist way to blame men.