Kat the Traveler deconstructs Esquire’s profile of physicist/chemist Naomi Halas:
So, would you ever see a lead paragraph like this? “Dressed in a clingy suit with tight black pants and business shoes, Joe Smith looks as if he stepped off a Hollywood set. He smiles and giggles and uses words like awesome and totally without ever dropping his intense focus on science.”
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Back to sexism! You’d never see this: “Happily married for 20 years to a theoretical physicist he met at IBM, Joe Smith was never able to have children. Maybe, he thinks, he was meant to do this instead.” Yep, gotta mention marriage and children since that’s the exclusive purview of women-folk. Snort.
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