I’m not into street drugs (the hardest stuff I ever did was liquor, and these days my drug of choice is black coffee) but I have to imagine knowing that any batch of them could kill you would be a significant deterrence for anyone who can still think rationally.

Mhm.

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And they clearly think they’re better for never having touched “hard drugs”.

Why are you fighting in the comments to defend this user so hard?

Explaining what the other user meant isn’t an argument lol

Enjoy sitting on your high horse above anyone who has ever done any drugs before.

Apple seeds have a significant amount of cyanide in them and you shouldn’t eat too many.

Don’t you know this, rational thinker?

“….anyone who can still think rationally.”

Come on, we’re not as stupid as you think drug users are.

Nah, it’s clear to most people that simply calling others dumb for using drugs isn’t effective at anything but making yourself look like an uncaring asshole who lacks empathy.

It’s really common for people to assume scientists are white men.

A newly published University of Virginia study has found that about two-thirds of students in a third- through fifth-grade extracurricular astronomy program perceive scientists as white men in labs, mixing chemicals – even as women and people of color increasingly work as scientists.

The study authors found that these perceptions persist even after elementary school students have been tutored under young female scientists in a program designed to increase understanding of and exposure to astronomy.

Here’s another study on it:

We found that the scientist image was rated predominantly as White and male, which reflects stereotypes about who pursues scientific careers. The scientist image was also rated more negatively than the other CIs on several characteristics, which may indicate negative biases toward scientists as unsociable, poor communicators, and incompetent authority figures, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This isn’t a made up phenomena just for social media. It really happens.

What did I do?

I didn’t post the screenshot

I’m not the OP

If you read the comment section, someone already did:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/67172616/27558882

My only point was that many people wouldn’t think twice about the gender of a person because of a hyphenated last name. It’s not even necessarily that common with married women tbh.

There are many cultures where having two last names or a hyphenated last name is pretty normal for any gender.

https://qz.com/523023/scientists-and-mathematicians-arent-all-white-men-but-you-wouldnt-know-that-from-the-movies

It’s a whole thing! Now that you know, I bet it’s like learning a new word - you’ll start noticing it in more places.

It’s an old trope that people assume any scientist is a white man.

If you didn’t assume she was a white guy, then this isn’t targeting you. You can put your pitchfork down.

Eh there’s value in calling out sexist assumptions.

I’m answering what the OG post is talking about. I can dig up examples just as well as you can, but I’m not at my desk at the moment.

The OP says “this site” and it looks like maybe Tumblr?

There’s a running assumption that the scientist that discovered this new cat species is a white guy. It’s not.