@forse
In physics masters courses, surely Noether’s theorem should have been mentioned? When I first heard of it, I suppose I assumed that this was a guy. There would not have been a portrait in the textbook.

@hypostase @olivia

@lritter @hypostase @olivia 💯 this is part of the problem

I grew up reading a lot of sci-fi, which at the time^ skewed extremely far towards “male / masc protagonists are the only protagonists” – many young girls & women have always been able to imagine ourselves as the hero(ine) & write ourselves into the stories out of sheer necessity (yes it’s not ideal ‘coz “if you can’t see it you can’t be it” is frequently true, but many of us managed)

but $deity forbid there’s a sci-fi story with a female / femme protagonist that becomes popular – many young boys & men get an attack of the vapours and start bleating about it being “unrelatable” 🙄 (i.e. they finally stumbled on something in the world that didn’t centre them) 😮‍💨
 
 
 
^ yes, still now, but a tiny bit less so

@olivia it’s a really good word (also article) and just the word to have when you want to point to it, rather than just screaming, loudly, into the void because you don’t have the word that you need.

Thank you.

@Rowena
Absolutely it's misogyny, but it's also good to have the word for the precise thing, where women's work is actively hidden, particularly in service of that misogynistic belief women are unable to do it.

It's that aspect of I know, and have always known, that in this society men take credit for women's work, but now when I want to argue back, or even think about it more precisely, I've a word for it.

Like lancing a boil, now I have the right tool, I just need to sit with it to make sure I use it properly, to drain the wound they've chosen to make.

@olivia