It isn’t a measure because it isn’t measurable. Judging intent is like judging intelligence - it’s purely speculative, and of zero use outside of this very small arena.

I understand that OP is the “virtue signaling is good” guy.

The difference between the two is practically relevant for heavy social media use and literally nowhere else.

If you *are* being oppressed in any central valence of your life, no matter who you are, your only business is to vote in your own interest.

This is rich coming from someone in the British Isles. Do you pasty fucks even know what spices are?

Huh - it says you can’t be messaged. Your settings might only allow dms from accounts you follow? Just a possibility

Probably best to DM - are yours on?

Hi Prof. Glad that such never came up in your experience, but I feel obligated to note that it does come up, especially in regional studies, where USian mandates mix with assumptions about who is qualified to teach what. I’ve tried to convince myself it’s a hoax, but I have receipts.

Two things can be true at the same time, and not all environments are The Environment. If the *actual hiring numbers* that article presents can be easily refuted w/ evidence, straight-up and without withering derision, where is said evidence?

Or do we just sneer and look away?

The article makes that clear on both ends. It focuses on those of us who can’t even make it *into* the 89% female level, even though - surprise, surprise - we aren’t all incompetent.

It was one kind of unfair then, and it’s another kind of unfair now. Sins of the father, eh?

Surely it is not difficult to realize that simple scarcity of positions is not the dynamic being reflected in the statistics?

Ah - is that the reason? My situation matches those described in the academic section exactly, and I have been told to my face after a campus interview that I wasn’t the right ethnicity.

This looks like equity to you?