Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one

Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by potato3732842 on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @09:01PM (#42056765)

> find middle class folk (in the UK) to be uptight and terribly afraid of causing/receiving offence

This isn't just a UK thing. Seems fairly universal at least across the western world.

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by naming_the_user on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @09:03PM (#42056772)

Right. In Britain at least at some point this flips and if you're proper old money you go back to not giving a shit again. Classic example is Prince Philip.

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Re:Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a profe... by HPsquared on Tuesday November 05, 2024 @11:02PM (#42057128)

Middle class is always more insecure. A middle-class individual could move either up or down, this causes anxiety.

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