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Bristol uni promoting the idea of a 'girl brain'

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Bagger288 · 14/07/2019 13:02

See their Instagram page. They're putting up guest posts from someone with the handle 'girl brain boy body'. They also have training talks for staff by the same person with the same title. Such regressive sexist BS.

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Reallybadidea · 14/07/2019 13:47

To be fair it's to do with different zones and where any fire is. There's something similar where I work, just less sexist!

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 14/07/2019 13:46

What if someone plays the wrong recording

My precious third born dies in a fire at Bristol im gonna raze that place to the ground

(May be a bit over invested...ds2 is 16)

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 14/07/2019 13:45

There shouldn’t be a serious one and a not serious one

Its a fucking fire!!!

I may need to go away and calm down Grin

Reallybadidea · 14/07/2019 13:43

It's a recorded voice Grin

I just think it says so much that they chose a male voice to be the 'serious' one.

As an aside, we had a lecture on the effect of 'gender' on the coronary artery disease. I asked a question about whether transwomen have an increased risk if they take oestrogen. The lecturer (and my fellow students) were Hmm They all think I'm a bit of a weirdo one way and another Grin

Sorry, feel like I've de-railed the thread a bit Blush

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 14/07/2019 13:37

Get a grip???

Get a grip????

Are they completely fucking stupid

Even if we forget about the inherent sexism

Its a fucking health and safety issue

AlessandraAsteriti · 14/07/2019 13:23

What if it is a non-binary voice?

FannyCann · 14/07/2019 13:15

What if it's the male voiced person's day off on the day they have a fire Really?

Makes me want to go over there and set off fire alarms randomly to put it to the test. Grin

Reallybadidea · 14/07/2019 13:14

Yup. It was truly shocking. I made a comment in the feedback form for that session and was basically told to get a grip.

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer · 14/07/2019 13:11

You’re kidding really

That’s seriously what they say?

Fucking ridiculous...thats Bristol off potential universities for my youngest

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Bagger288 · 14/07/2019 13:11

Shock that's awful!!

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Reallybadidea · 14/07/2019 13:09

Why doesn't that surprise me? I'm a student there currently. During the 'housekeeping' part of my first week of lectures, we were told that if there was a fire alarm with a female voice giving instructions, then we could just ignore it. If there was an alarm with a male voice then we needed to pay attention because it wasn't a drill. I was Shock