Interesting that “Mother, 33” doesn’t have a name
Anyone else find it weird how articles often tend to add the parental status of the subject in the title?
I guess it’s bait for people who like to judge. The idea could be: it’s not responsible to quit science for this and being a mother makes irresponsible choices even worse. That’s not my point of view, but I know people whose life seems to be so empty that they feel a constant need to look down on others and the “mother” information gives them at least 5 more minutes of talking shit about how this is a terrible decision.
I see it the other way around. Older people eat up clickbait news, and older people tend to be parents, so identifying the woman as a mother makes them go “she’s someone like me” while identifying her as a scientist is less likely to resonate. It helps some people imagine themselves in her shoes.
I guess being a mother is considered an important life achievement, while being a father is not.
It’s been this way since the inception of the news paper. To sell papers they needed to get people invested in the subjects of the paper. That included giving information about the subject of the articles that other people might relate to. If you’re a mother you’re more likely to be inspired by a mom of 3 who went for a degree in science and ended up becoming a “Trebuchet Master”.
To be pedantic, that’s still covered under E
I don’t know of a single engineer who has never built a trebuchet.
I’m not even a “proper” engineer and I have like, five desktop trebs, 2 ballistae and some other odds and ends (3d printed, of course,)
It’s like, a right of passage or something.
I’m a software engineer and I built a trebuchet during lockdown to launch Easter eggs at the neighbours’ gardens since we weren’t allowed to go see them.
The plastic candy-filled kind…. I hope.
Or. I hope they weren’t very good neighbors….
I have a scar over my eye from a trebuchet I built in high school, then I went to college for engineering, so that checks out
And M. A lot of M actually. And S. Also T. Put some A in it to make it not threatening.
Scientist in the UK wear surgical caps and carry stethoscopes? I guess doctors are a subcategory of scientists.
Doesn’t becoming a doctor involve researching something new in the field of medicine?
You’re thinking of a PhD doctor. Medical doctors don’t have to research or publish anything new.
(Trebuchet) swinger in your area
