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teamramonycajal  ·  3860 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stay Out of My Namaste Space - And Other Things Said By White Women In Boulder

I gotta be honest, I think this is probably a Boulder thing and not a white women thing.

Possibly just a white hippie/artsy thing.

I run in the predominantly white and Asian (both South and East) circle of the scientific world, there are plenty of women (hell, I'm a white woman), and this is something I've never run into while in the lab or at a conference or in class.

There's a computer lab at my university that's mostly used by arts students (I had to use it a few times because I had to use Photoshop to get some artifacts out of some pictures of neurons), and the minute you step in there, you hear stuff like this. It's bizarre.

There's a particular type of person, period, who comes up with these gems. Boulder being Boulder, I'm not surprised they cluster there.

EDIT: "I don’t get it, you know? What could I have done that would make her think that I’m the antichrist I’m just trying to do my job." seems kind of out of place there.

EDIT: Also "Thank god for cell phone alarms, if they didn’t exist I would definitely be pregnant by now. Well, cell phone alarms and the pill.", " There were people taking it really seriously, some of them even had coordinated outfits.", "There’s just no good PR for Russia.", and "He’s like the Irish Tupac."

EDIT: This blog is like the evil twin of the Not All Men post. Next thing you know, a biracial bisexual Zoroastrian intersex person is going to do something like 'People who identify as one race and are only attracted to one gender and are a member of a relatively large religion or no religion at all and have genitals that discernibly are just a penis and testicles or just a vagina and clitoris are assholes' and all of these people being targeted are going to go 'Not all blacks or whites or Asians or gays or straights or Christians or atheists or people who identify as men or people who identify as women are like that!'

It's a bizarre rabbit hole.