no shit sherlock
Ok, so people are making fun of this because yes, “What else is new? That’s what we’ve been saying. Tell me something I don’t know!” and I get it. It is like when they did a study on the fact that women gain weight after pregnancy. In other news water is wet and fire is hot. But if they document it in a conscious, systematic way maybe they can fix it. We did research that teachers, even female teachers tend to call on boys more and give them more attention, so then we were educated on ways in which to fix that bias in our classrooms. If we can see objectively that they do it, therefore removing any of the baggage of the harmful stereotypes and racist preconceived notions that the people who need to hear this most may carry. When someone shares their story (like girls feeling overlooked in the classroom, or black drivers being pulled over for driving while black and generally being harassed) people can think ‘oh they are just making a fuss’ or ‘it couldn’t have been that bad’ or ‘ they must have done something wrong to deserve how they were treated’. To study it in this way, and hopefully others, gives people the tools they need to stop dismissing it and start fixing it. I know it shouldn’t be necessary, but hopefully it can do some good.
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