Thread by @Scot_Feminists

Ladies, young & old, a little test for you:
Q: Where is the part of your brain that deals with toilet-cleaning?
Q:Or shoes?
Q: or headache generation?
A: all identified in the slide a @UofGlasgow neurology Prof shows medical undergrads 1/ heraldscotland.com/business_hq/20…

Strangely enough, the male brain was not used. Imagine being a female student in that class? We imagine many of us have been in the position, where our lecturers, bosses or colleagues have tried to belittle & humiliate us. Quite often we stay quiet because of the 2/

imbalance of power, or being outnumbered, or you're shocked into silence. We wonder what message your male peers receive as your "superior" broadcasts the message that it's okay to make sexist, lazy stereotypical slurs about women. 3/

Life can be tough enough for women & we know that it definitely is in medicine. When we're short of all healthcare professionals, what is @TheBMA doing about stats like these?
We're pretty sure that if 90% of male doctors had experienced sexism it would be addressed years ago 4/

Except, we know women don't tend to grope their colleagues or the power to deny opportunities in the workplace (& evidence suggests female bosses don't do this when they can). Gents, read these stats & just imagine what a workplace like this would be like to work on. 5/

@Scot_Feminists members have all experienced some form of sexism in life, whether they're cleaners, doctors, engineers, teachers or carers. This behaviour doesn't just happen in hospitals or surgeries, or even just in medical undergrad's lecturers. 5/

One member sat through an (almost entirely male) class as the Prof taught them how to pick up women. Another was told they received good grades because they must be sleeping with the male staff. This was the day to day stuff of our lives but we'd hope it had been quashed 6/

Clearly not. As we stated in the article, we expect @UofGlasgow to stop this sexist nonsense in ALL classrooms if we want our female undergrads to understand they are equals & deserve respect from staff, peers & patients. 7/

We're happy to help any pupils, students, parents or even teaching staff if they ever see sexist nonsense like this in their schools or universities if they don't feel able to challenge it themselves.
#WomenWontWheesht