“Dreaming is hard. It requires risks. It requires you to own the fact that you are capable of something great.”
“Imagine a world in which all the time, all the energy and and all the bandwidth that goes into cyber bullying and trolling instead goes into building good things.”
This is part of what it means to be a woman in science. With the creeps I generally hold my own and get them to back off like I would with any asshole in a bar. With the people in power… I commiserate with the other women as we share stories of what has been grabbed by whom. I know as I say this that it sounds unbelievable – and how can we report the unbelievable and expect to be believed?
This isn’t to say women shouldn’t go into astronomy. It is just to say that in the after hours events, you sometimes need to keep your butt to the wall and your arms crossed over your chest.
Some of you have to have power to stop discrimination and harassment. It pisses me off to know that as strong as I am, I know I’m not powerful enough to name names and be confident that I’ll still have a career.
But some of you are people with power who can change things.
http://www.starstryder.com/2012/07/15/make-the-world-better/
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
3 comments
Smhlle
July 15, 2012 at 10:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I read it, and I agree she is awesome.
Celia Bureau
July 16, 2012 at 1:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
A tale of a 16 year old boy assistant at the recognized summer house dojo in the 1950 s.
Laurel Faire
July 16, 2012 at 8:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
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