April 9, 2012
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How my Mom fights sexism
My Mom is a chemical engineer and works in a male dominated field. Going through college she had to face sexism. For example, in one of her engineering courses the professor said, “this is what female engineers are good for” and a picture of a scantily clad female with a ruler in her pocket flashed during the presentation.
Now recently there was March Madness. It’s a basketball thing and in the March Madness brackets or whatever you pick what team is going to win.
Every year my Mom’s company has a contest to see who can get the most picks correct. My Mom won. She beat my Dad too! (My family is a basketball oriented family. Grandpa, Dad, and my brother played basketball. My brother played college basketball even)
A male coworker (WHO LOST) suggested that maybe next year there should be a rule that spouses weren’t allowed to do each others picks, implying that my Mom cheated and let my Dad pick for her. Cause women don’t know basketball, lulz, right??
OH MY MOM WAS PISSED. So she sent out this email and I thought it was funny:
It was brought to my attention that there will be a new rule for the basketball picks next year. Spouses are not allowed to make your picks for you. Now, the only logical conclusion I can come to from that is he believes he lost because he let his wife make his picks, as I am sure the male ego cannot be that big.
I am in total agreement with this rule. To demonstrate why I agree, I have attached a copy of my spouses picks to show, if I too had let my spouse make my picks, I would have lost also.
If I should happen to win (I understand someone’s picks have not yet been counted), to be gracious, maybe I will share some of the morels I found last night.
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In the e-mail she attached a copy of my Dad’s picks. (which were a lot different than hers) lawl
Comments (31)
Woo your mom kicks ass!
Y U no engineer? Or are you? I want women engineers, but they no maths… usually.
@xdeelynnx - Thank you!! <3 I agree
@The_ATM – My brother not only has a degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, he has a physics degree as well. So basically, he got all of the smart genes. :p I’m a business major.
Next thing they’ll want is the vote. They’ll want contraception. Spouses shouldn’t make picks.
@ShimmerBodyCream - BUSINESS MAJORS UNITE!
i love the whole thing
your mom’s the real deal
<3 Your mom
bahaha nerds hating on yer mum.
Your mom sounds wicked cool!
haha! brilliant email.
i can’t believe a professor would do something so stupid.
You GO girl! I’m a girl studying mining engineering and I have to agree – it’s super chalvanuistic.
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your mom is awesome. when I was majoring in science, I had several professors tell me that women are not good in science or math and that I was wasting my time, I was pretty enough to get a MRS. Sometimes I wish I would have continued pursuing a PhD in Biology just because I could tell men who think women should stay in the kitchen to suck it, but OH MY GOD I hated the research with a passion. The day I got a Masters was the happiest day of my life because I never had to do bench work again.
awesome. i love your mom.
i love this. hahaha.
Your mom is awesome! Not that you didn’t know this, lol.
that’s great
But does your mom have big boobs?
@TheTheologiansCafe - I don’t notice things like that, that’d be weird…!!
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(THEY’RE D’s BTW.)
Nice. The same thing happened in my dad’s bracket pool, when I got second place
Your mom is a BAMF.
She handled that quite well.
Good for your mom.
My Mom is a professor of Chemical Engineering. And works directly under a misogynist. Fortunately, he’s afraid of her because she has really good aim with firearms and a low tolerance for nonsense. So it works out.
I like your Mom’s style.
LOL! Your mom is awesome!!
My Dad always said the women in my Mom’s family were liberated long before Women’s Lib” became an actual movement. Sexism? Mom or Grandma would just make them feel like any guy acting like that feel like nothing.
Go Shimmer’s Mom!
Your mom sounds pretty awesome. I wish we had more female engineers at my firm. They are like a breath of fresh air from the norm.
Hahaha! oh man that put me in a good mood!! madd props to ur mom for her wisdom despite her anger. Role model right there! Please let her know I look up to her good example.
love,
random stranger
<3
so.. when is yo mom going to be single? … i mean… fml
So does funny run in your family?
haha love it