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[palominocorn]

[mumbling about how physics being seen as a "harder" and therefore "better" science than chemistry, which is in turn "harder/better" than biology, is a factor of misogyny]

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[yvannairie]

I read "harder" as "more difficult" instead of "more abstract and theoretical" and was for a moment like. Physics is fucking baby easy, it's literally just applied maths, while chemistry requires you to completely reconfigure your brain to follow things on a level of single atomic bonds forming and unforming. And don't even fucking talk to me about biology.

[palominocorn]

I found physics much harder... but I think that had to do with the fact that my physics professors were snobby jerks who were trying to make the subject difficult.

Also my parents are physicists, and there's a wagonload of... issues... there. Misogyny being a big one.