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[firecat]

http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2011/07/is-it-cold-in-here.html

There's a phrase for what Linda Henneberg is experiencing: it's called a "chilly climate," and it describes not just overt sexism or sexual harassment -- which most people agree are unacceptable, at least in theory -- but the myriad unconscious diminishing behaviors that seem to proliferate in any male-dominated environment, whether it be a classroom, a boardroom, an Internet chat room, World of Warcraft, or an international physics laboratory.

A world without chilly climates feels profoundly worth working toward.

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[laughingrat]

O, I should read that. Just the bit about chilly climate alone resonated with me. It's -ism at its most insidious, really.

[cynthia1960]

Word.