Women need to step up to the plate if they want to stop objectifcation

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177. There are lots of really shitty math teachers.

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I had a bad one in high school that didn't explain things and messed me up.

My discouragements as a female from blatantly sexist statements, remind me of this guy and racist bullshit he's heard.

Read about Neil deGrasse Tyson's troubles. The man has a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Columbia University:

At age 11 he went to talk to a teacher at P.S. 81 (NYC). The teacher asked, "Why do you want to go into science? There aren't any Negroes in that field. Why don't you go into sports?'"

Tyson was on the Harvard wrestling team as an undergraduate. He often tells the story of another African-American member of the Harvard wrestling team, Frederick T. Smith--an eventual Rhodes scholar, who intended to put his economics degree to use among impoverished communities--criticized him for devoting himself to science.

"Blacks in America do not have the luxury of your intellectual talents being spent on astrophysics," he told Tyson.

(Smith, who became an attorney in Newark, died in 2005.)

"Never before had someone so casually, yet so succinctly, indicted my life's ambitions," Tyson later wrote.



The above has been quoted from a profile in the Feb.17 & 24, 2014 New Yorker profile of Dr. Tyson called "STAR MAN".
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My point is not to say that sexism is worse than racism, or that racism is worse than sexism. My point is: We all have external characteristics that will make some people prejudge us negatively. And oftentimes, tell us about how and why we're inferior, in their opinion.

My opinion of people who think I'm stupid or inferior because I'm short or female or whatever: They can go to hell. Their own personal hell, that they make up with their anger they live on every day as fuel.