Wait, so having people ask dumb-ass questions about some aspect of your life, or make completely bogus assumption about you because of that aspect is a form of oppression?
Can I use this as a basis for identifying mathematicians as an oppressed group? I mean have I ever had to deal with a lot of bizarre and largely unfounded stereotypes of mathematicians. Hell, I'm pretty sure that my father still harbours some sort of bizarre expectation of business "success" based on some image of mathematicians as being kinda like accountants only moreso. (Reality, the average mathematician is a lecherous half-psychotic poly-drug-abuser who's no more likely to settle down in some high-paying company job than to make a living holed up in a Montana cabin mailing pipe bombs to people).
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Date: 2009-03-11 09:54 pm (UTC)Can I use this as a basis for identifying mathematicians as an oppressed group? I mean have I ever had to deal with a lot of bizarre and largely unfounded stereotypes of mathematicians. Hell, I'm pretty sure that my father still harbours some sort of bizarre expectation of business "success" based on some image of mathematicians as being kinda like accountants only moreso. (Reality, the average mathematician is a lecherous half-psychotic poly-drug-abuser who's no more likely to settle down in some high-paying company job than to make a living holed up in a Montana cabin mailing pipe bombs to people).