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I feel very lucky in the scientists and doctors I have met that way..almost no creeps till 2010-2011 and a fairly small number over all even after. And that was before all this creepy surveillance became normal.

Systemic sexism thanks to people you never even see or meet is another matter.
All three of my mentors were thoroughly decent.

The thought of anything that inappropriate with one’s professors/mentors is shocking to me. Or physicians. Those are sacrosanct relationships.

In general life would be impossible with any underlying sexual tension (🤮 ) in any context with any man (from my perspective as a straight woman) except the person you happen to be dating or married to imo.
I can’t even imagine that shit in the workplace. Even the worst workplace I ever saw had none of that kind of creepiness.

(Another really fallacious stereotype is that alcohol or substances and sex go together. Actually rather than sex and drugs, it seems to me sex or drugs is closer to the dull reality of your average white collar drone. It’s actually a coping mechanism tied to workaholism.

I have a slight tendency toward alcoholism inherited from my dad…he like me had a tendency in his youth to drown his work sorrows in alcohol..he was a workaholic.
I would be a workaholic if brute force was enough for work..I am trying that now after a long break from work-14 years almost on the nose..nothing as good for the brain as plain fare work).

My main mentor was one of the best..he mentored a lot of women. We all had a lot of affection for him. I think of him and my last mentor sadly these days wondering how they are faring under this admin. I myself have to go focus on work now after many major upheavals are just settling.


Trump 2.0 ( ) ..I hope we can all survive 3 more years of Trump/Vance.