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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by dotnet00 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:18PM (#37013518)
The physicists where I work like to joke about how engineers can't do basic physics stuff and the engineers like to joke about how physicists struggle to convert design into reality.

Neither of them genuinely dislikes the other's field/passion, they're actually very appreciative of each other's skills. It's just a very common kind of humor.

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by AlecSchueler on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:32AM (#37020342)
And I bet both fields are wondering how to be more appealing to women right?
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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by defrost on Sunday August 06, 2023 @05:47AM (#37020423)
Engineering, physics, mathematics, astronomy and STEM in general are already appealing to women - it's the bro-centric institutions that are off putting.

Women like R.O have contributed to all those fields since the 1980s .. but then they've been surrounded by others like C.P to take the edge off the boof heads.

https://www.science.org.au/profile/robyn-owens

https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/cheryl-pra...

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Re:He Dropped Out to Become a Poet. Now He’s Won a Fields Me... by dotnet00 on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:03AM (#37020760)
My workplace doesn't appear to be having any trouble with that. Jokes like that aren't exactly gender specific.
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