• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
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    7 months ago

    Utah teapots

    Offensive to people who react bad to caffeine or whose relatives had been killed by a falling teapot.

    Stanford bunnies

    Offensive to people who think there’s a furry connection.

    and if you can’t understand how that would make some people uncomfortable then you might be a bit lacking in empathy.

    I can understand that and those people can use another image when making their own examples.

    It’s not a bad thing to have more empathy, but there’s common sense.

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      7 months ago

      https://www.yalescientific.org/2020/11/by-the-numbers-women-in-stem-what-do-the-statistics-reveal-about-ongoing-gender-disparities/

      Down the bottom there are some statistics about how many women experience sexual harassment and gender based discrimination in STEM positions. They also tend to have worse outcomes in general and fewer will go on to work in their field.

      While this might seem like a small thing, ignoring these kinds of outdated and unnecessary boys club attitudes is exactly the kind of thing perpetuating these sorts of outcomes.

      If you can’t see how using a cropped image from a playboy for no reason in an image processing paper is different from your made up examples and could make some people feel uncomfortable then maybe you’re lacking common sense and empathy.