Adjunct Professor of Applied Thinkology

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Sasha genderfluid they/she/he, ona/jej 🐴 MSci in Immunology and Pharmacology European

There's a rural teacher in Greater Poland, writing in 1928, who reports that, when asked about what they would like to do in the future, one girl in his class wrote "I would like to be a cow so I could graze in the fields and give everyone milk", and he, full well familiar with conditions she and other girls in the village face, comments by saying "This, indeed, would be better for her. At least she would be treated as a piece of property, and if damage is incurred to a piece of property, that's a cause for concern and worry."
“But I didn’t and still don’t like making a cult of women’s knowledge, preening ourselves on knowing things men don’t know, women’s deep irrational wisdom, women’s instinctive knowledge of Nature, and so on. All that all too often merely reinforces the masculinist idea of women as primitive and inferior – women’s knowledge as elementary, primitive, always down below at the dark roots, while men get to cultivate and own the flowers and crops that come up into the light. But why should women keep talking baby talk while men get to grow up? Why should women feel blindly while men get to think?” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
Zohran Mamdani saying "Welcome to the transition"