This is psychological pollution under the guise of caring. Saying this to me, in response to MY work, is a classic mastodon experience. Express your despair somewhere else if you need to but understand that it is profoundly threatening to dump this into the mentions of women in science. It accomplishes nothing but forcing me to imagine my life under threat.
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Deb Chachra
In response to this post@grimalkina As someone who’s basically three space robots in a trenchcoat who has to keep learning how to human better, I note that the ‘support in, dump out’ rule (that you provide only support to the person or people more affected than you by the situation, and only vent or otherwise seek support yourself from those *less* affected) covers this — like, you can vent to your own followers if you must.
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