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  • Mar 23, 2026, 7:15 PM

    Any time women make something lucrative, men push them out of the field. A 1983 MIT paper documented that purge in computer science: simson.net/ref/1983/barriers.p

    See also mastodon.social/@Sheril/109545 for "beer brewer" becoming "witch", Julia Child giving way to Gordon Ramsey, Sarah Taber's great thread about "egg money", the origin of the word "spinster" and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire...

    Once there's money in it, douchebros terf out the founders then claim to have discovered what others invented.

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