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Royal Institution getting a pasting on Twitter

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EwwSprouts · 26/02/2020 16:54

"If you identify as a woman" they'd like you to complete their survey to understand what women watch. twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1232681119939731458

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gassylady · 26/02/2020 20:42

Have filled out too. I like to watch videos that are made by people who know what a woman is and recognise that biological sex cannot be changed. I wonder how many of those they will make 🙄😁

mcduffy · 26/02/2020 20:35

Thanks for flagging, thoroughly enjoyed that read Grin

EndoplasmicReticulum · 26/02/2020 20:33

It's the scientists who don't know what a woman is that really disappoint me. Did enjoy reading the responses to that one though.

mindtheclegs · 26/02/2020 20:32

That Twitter thread is an absolute joy to behold. Who’d have thunk it a few years ago hey.

I oblivious to of all of this until last summer. Was this just not allowed back then?

ListeningQuietly · 26/02/2020 20:29

Dear Royal College
there are white bits of the world outside Britain and Ireland Hmm

Disfordarkchocolate · 26/02/2020 20:22

I had fun filling that in. You can be quite inventive with the 'other' response. I wonder if they bother to analyse the survey?

littlbrowndog · 26/02/2020 20:22

Can I assign myself as just anything

Can the royal college. Assign me now if I asked them nicely

littlbrowndog · 26/02/2020 20:20

Cripes that royal college

Assigned at birth.

Cripes how does that actually work

Women’s voices. Cripes.

What if I am waiting on my assignation
How will I get my assignment

It’s all a mystery yet to be uncovered£

drum123 · 26/02/2020 20:14

I've applied too. Only so that I can tell them what I think of their application form. FFS, how can the RCOG use the phrase 'sex assigned at birth'?

Cwenthryth · 26/02/2020 20:13

Jinx siameasy Grin

Cwenthryth · 26/02/2020 20:13

That Twitter thread is an absolute joy to behold. Who’d have thunk it a few years ago hey.

Siameasy · 26/02/2020 20:11

Yes! A few years ago there would not have been this response. People are sick of it.

ListeningQuietly · 26/02/2020 20:09

Languishing
A LOT of those Twitter responses are from blokes who work in science trying to widen participation (I recognise several of the accounts)

I used my name as an extra comment box ;-)

drum123 · 26/02/2020 20:08

Nowhere to put a comment on the RI survey as PP has said, but on the question asking about the types of science videos I watch I answered 'I only watch science videos that identify as science videos not ones that are actually science videos.' And on the subjects that interest me, I answered 100% biology and 0% for all others. Completely lied about everything else! A small triumph, but it feels good.

Disfordarkchocolate · 26/02/2020 19:58

I have applied, I wonder if I will find out? It would be interesting to discuss childbirth and the menopause with someone who is just 'feeling' like a women.

Cuntysnark · 26/02/2020 19:55

The comment box, if I remember correctly, is when we are asked what other science sources we use. I referenced Life of Brian for the biology too.

Languishingfemale · 26/02/2020 19:41

Stellar responses to that tweet. Well done those wims. Grin

ErrolTheDragon · 26/02/2020 19:33

I bring you the application form to join Women's Voices at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. I wonder how the experiences of those who identify as women are useful?

Too much to hope that those questions are in order to correctly direct some responses to the bin?

NotTerfNorCis · 26/02/2020 19:30

The responses to that tweet are 100% GC. And TRAs think most people support their ideology? Give your heads a wobble TRAs.

Childrenofthestones · 26/02/2020 19:25

24Mockersisrightasusual
"Michael Faraday must be turning in her grave."

Haha, right you....how do I get coffee out of a keyboard 😆

Disfordarkchocolate · 26/02/2020 19:12

I bring you the application form to join Women's Voices at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. I wonder how the experiences of those who identify as women are useful?

www.rcog.org.uk/en/patients/womens-voices-involvement-panel/join-RCOG-WVIP/

HavelockVetinari · 26/02/2020 19:10

"I identify as Marie Curie, in the most scientific way possible. Please send Nobel Prize."

Grin
ChattyLion · 26/02/2020 19:10

Oh sorry I just said something really unkind there. Got it wrong and must apologise.
Actually the RI said they were.... ‘really sad’.

Hmm mobile.twitter.com/Ri_Science/status/1232720181304209408
ListeningQuietly · 26/02/2020 19:08

This is the part that the RI is missing completely
www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jul/24/academic-writes-270-wikipedia-pages-year-female-scientists-noticed
and
www.abc.net.au/news/health/2019-07-26/women-in-stem-wikipedia-dharmica-mistry/11348876
and
cen.acs.org/careers/women-in-science/Wikipedias-women-scientists/96/i37

Role models need to be identified
not identify as

as the tweets make abundantly clear
the only people who IDENTIFY AS women, are men

ChattyLion · 26/02/2020 19:06

Michael Faraday must be turning in her grave.

Mockers very good Grin

Oh the RI are ‘sad’ now are they.. the poor little sexist, unscientific twazzocks that they clearly are. We see you!

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