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Originally Posted by Blue Skies
This has been all over my Twitter and Facebook feed for the last week. I would like to make the following observations:
1. It took a week for this important topic to be raised in this forum (and I visit every day, even if I don't post)
2. It took a woman to post it.
3. When I first saw it 202 people had looked at it, but only 3 men had commented.
The silence is deafening. I hope that's because you're all having a good think about it, rather than pretending the issue doesn't exist here in Australia or that you're all above it. But you never listen to anything I say, anyway, so it wont matter, I suppose.
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1/ I don't do twit-er, or facebook.
2/Why should the gender of the person posting it matter?
3/ Don't assume because people aren't ranting, they don't care. Believe it or not 99.99999999% of males aren't like this and would happily punch the creeps that harass women in the face, (me included and for the same and other reasons posted here,
by men)
Frankly, we don't know the facts and there are plenty of cases where men have had their careers wrecked by false claims, entrapment and sheer bloody malice. I'm pretty sick of men being demonised as a group. There are some really "delightful" females out there as well and the treatment they, and their victims, get for similar behaviour is usually VERY VERY different! Women are not complete angels.
I've been on the receiving end of a claim by several female students who didn't like the fact that I insisted they did their work. It took a very powerful female teacher to face the little darlings down and get the truth out of them. My career and reputation were dead in the water for 24 hours, they got a weeks detention. You have NO IDEA how horrifying that experience was and I can detail many more examples with not so nice outcomes.
Lets stick to astronomy please.