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If this turns out to be AI generated, I will be so upset!
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.
What kind of white guy has a female Latina name?
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’.
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.
“Extreamly weird how many people I’ve seen assume she is a white guy”
I thought she was a cat. That’s what we were talking about. White? She is more of a yellow orange with tan to brown spots.
The name is Paola not Paolo so that should have been a hint right there.
If only Black MESA had hired differently. Tragedy, really.
Jane Goodall? Isn’t she well known.
She didn’t identify the cat. She is pretty famous, tho. Also that wonan who’s all radioactive.
“That super famous lady whose name I can’t seem to remember” is probably not the best way to defend your post about women being dismissed in science. Marie Curie was a badass, and her husband, who was also a scientist and notable in his field, was lucky to have her. I unironically couldn’t remember his name. I just checked, thinking it might be Pierre but dismissing that as too stereotypical, and it is.
*Marie Skłodowska Curie. People often shorten her name (and I’ll be honest, “Marie Curie” is fun to say) but she used both surnames.
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Guess I need one of these…
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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.
Holy fucking strawman
And here I was imagining a diverse group of scientists, because science is rarely done by just one person anyway.
We discover a new species. what’s the first thing we do? We put it in a cage.
Humanity in a nutshell.
I think the cat ended up in a shelter (I don’t know the reason though) and then they discovered it didn’t match the other cat species known about. So it happened the other way around.
It was apparently found as a kitten by someone who thought it was a standard cat, then after a year of what I can only assume was murder kitty behaviour, they took it to a shelter
It really is peak cat when it takes a full year with a wild, feral animal to notice it’s behaviour isn’t just cat being cat.
Ive heard stories about people taking in bobcat kittens before realizing. But the story that takes the cake is someone raising a dog for years before realizing it was a fucking bear.
https://abc11.com/pets-animals/woman-unknowingly-rescues-bobcat-thinking-it-was-kitten/5570293/
what’s… what’s going on here?
New type of cat just dropped
Female Bolivian scientist to be precise
Did it land on its feet?
Most under-rated question. Purrfect.
I feel like this isn’t about a cat
People were assuming that the biologist that discovered the new cat species was a white guy. She’s a Bolivian biologist who is decidedly not a white guy.
Just your average casual sexism weaving it’s way through social media as usual.
I saw the article before but didn’t read the details, if I had seen the name ending with an -a I would have thought a woman. But that’s also probably because I knew a guy named Paolo.
There is absolutely sexism as well as racism still lurking around in the average person’s assumptions. Seems a connected world hasn’t (yet) fixed that. Might take more time.
Oh. Well, if that’s the whole story, then this is a pretty weak science meme
Eh there’s value in calling out sexist assumptions.
I guess so, it just would be nice to see two people verbally sparring, instead of a one-person narrative about a supposed firestorm
It’s an old trope that people assume any scientist is a white man.
People were assuming that the biologist that discovered the new cat species was a white guy.
where?
I’m answering what the OG post is talking about. I can dig up examples just as well as you can, but I’m not at my desk at the moment.
The OP says “this site” and it looks like maybe Tumblr?
So why is tumblr’s issue our problem?
If you didn’t assume she was a white guy, then this isn’t targeting you. You can put your pitchfork down.
I can dig up examples just as well as you can, but I’m not at my desk at the moment.
you should have done that before posting this screenshot out of context. If you’re not willing to verify something is true, then don’t repost it on social media.
I didn’t post the screenshot
I’m not the OP
but what is the source of the “white guy” controversy? where are people reading about this new cat and commenting on the race and gender of the discoverer?
Some people online have started to either seriously or jokingly equate headlines saying “Scientists discovered” with “white guys found out something the natives have known about for years”
This is a specific type of callout post with justifiable ire about that, but to the tone of “for fucks sake not all scientists are white guys. Behold; the scientist who discovered the new cat.”
yes but what’s all the “white guy” stuff?
There’s a running assumption that the scientist that discovered this new cat species is a white guy. It’s not.
on tumblr especially, there is a belief that science is essentially only a thing white european/american men do and they impose their vision of the world onto everyone, hence “discovering” a new cat species (which was actually known to locals since forever)
it’s an understandable belief, given the very imperialist and colonialist history of science and the legacy that this leaves behind. but it also completely erases the many contributions to science from other people, like here, where the tilcayo was first formally described by a Bolivian woman, and named after the name local Indigenous people give to the cat
Well explained.
There’s a running assumption
citation needed
If you read the comment section, someone already did:
that’s just another person doing the same thing you did.
What did I do?
It’s in response to an assumption that’s described here, but not included here.
