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[cymrullewes]

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." And when you're accustomed to 98% of the stories in your history class being about men, then any stories about women are going to feel like "they're invading our space."

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[amaebi]

Amen. "After all, we were always Objective, and the women just didn't cut it!"

[xander_opal]

Well said.

Skeptic's Guide to the Universe started a new segment earlier this year called 'Forgotten Superheroes of Science.' So many times, the discussion is about how a brilliant woman did a lot of hard work... and a man took the credit and the money.

[johnpalmer]

And part of privilege is having no cost to pay for blithely dismissing that theory. But that's what can make the mirror difficult.