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blitzar | on: Only 5.3% of US welders are women. After years as a professor, I became one
I still get flashes of the traumatic day when I was in the kitchen area at work making myself a cup of tea and one of the female employees came in and said "You are a strong and tall man, can you get that heavy box from the top shelf for me".
kazinator | parent
I had that happen numerous times in supermarkets.
blitzar | root | parent
The supermarket encounters are most often dirty old women who are still stuck in the past, or have gotten away with it for so long they just don't know any better.
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