Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism
sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 5 months agoCan’t you? What about not having girly hobbies because that “makes you gay”? Or having to dress a certain way? I feel like straight people aren’t excluded from homophobia…
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
100%, when I was in middle school and highschool I was regularly called gay for not liking football, or not knowing random car facts, or not liking spicy food, and other stuff like that. It was much better in university, but it was in a different region so I can’t compare directly.
Interestingly, one of these bullies came out as gay 10 years later, which I find sad that someone had so much internalised self hatred that he had to project it outwards to feel better about himself.
I don’t know what middle/high schools are like today since I don’t know anyone in that age range, but I bet it’s much better now with today’s internet culture being much more queer positive.
yamanii@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Or much worse thanks to the redpill movement and andrew tate.
MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Damn, I forgot that pile of garbage existed.