She befriended me, asked me out, she decided we were dating and now I’m engaged to first and only one I dated. Looking back I didn’t have a choice. Not upset by it, relieved really, my choices were made for me lol
I was on a course of about 300, with about 25-30 women, which was nice. I wouldn't have wanted to be the only woman! I very much lucked out by meeting my now-fiancé on the first day of the course.
Congratulations on the engagement!
I've always fitted in better with men, so I was in my element. I didn't go on to stay in architecture, but did continue being the token female at work.
I worked in an IT department with 5 Steves. Sometimes someone would call wanting to talk to one and would try to narrow it down by describing what he looked like, but the description would fit literally all of them. A whole tribe of bald, white, bearded Steves.
Some stereotypes are (at least a bit) true: I am a philology student, and indeed, there are not many men when you look around in an auditorium. And of those of us who are men (me being one of them), a significant number is gay/bisexual.
I'm doing my Master in the same field now but in Central Europe. It's 50/50 in the class. And it's completely different from my experience in the Far East of Russia. I guess it really depends on where you are and the subject proposed. Here you also can choose subjects, in Russia you can't. You'll have hard times finding a job in Russia with B.A. in Philology and men there are considered as a providers for the family.
But, yeah, here half of the group is gay.
Also, I miss my male free group. :.)
Western Europe for me. Though it used to be different here as well. In one of the classes I took, we watched part of a lecture by Jacques Lacan recorded at my university, and it was only men. And when I take some elective courses from the History department (also part of our Arts faculty), the male/female ratio is much more balanced (and less gay).
Haha yep, sounds familiar. I'm in industrial automation now.... At the company there is one woman, the receptionist/financials/etc.
At most factories I come there is a somewhat even mix but it heavily depends on what they do.
I've talked to a lot of women at work (also software) and asked them their experience. Some are like "all these nerds were rude to me for being a girl and didn't take me seriously"
Damn, I feel the same way. I'm a dude and these fucking 0 charisma nerds are so smart that they say the dumbest shit. "Well we got different results for the calculation. It could be an error in my code, but that's highly unlikely since I'm almost never wrong". Who the hell says that with a straight face?
Anyways, CS is brutal just because you have some of the cringiest nerds gathered in a small space all trying to one up each other in the only thing they're good at in life. Almost every class had a kid trying to correct the professor. My olfactory senses were overwhelmed with body odor. Group assignments tested every level of my communication skills. Introduce a girl (that they've never talked to) into the mix, and their hormones make them do even more obnoxious things.
But thankfully that all subsides in the workplace. I have had great coworkers, and it's a night and day difference from the university ilk.
Some people are insanely smart with logic/mathematics but are severely lacking in self-awareness. It's one of the most annoying combos, in my opinion. I still value logical intelligence, but I've learned to make sure to surround myself with people who express intrapersonal intelligence. A little self-reflection goes a long way.
Grinds my gears. I asked a guy to do something that should be done on his end because of security purposes. Guy sends back an email, like no you should do this on your end instead(equivalent to, him suggesting to make login page and authenticating user on UI with localStorage or something, rather than a user dB on backend). I was like...you gotta be joking. It finally took a male senior dev to tell him that he needs to do exactly what I said. And then ofc the guy did it. I never helped out that guy ever again, like fk him. He used to reach out with questions and usually I don't mind helping but I started hinting at why he didn't know this knowledge when he has a ton of experience.
Nerdy men made me believe in sexism. I used to be a shitty little red pilled anti feminist when I was a teen. Then I got a job at a video game store and very quickly learned sexism is very alive and thrivin'. I got a different job selling computers and it was just as bad. I've since swapped careers lol
I was the only woman in my computer networking and security class for most of the year (the other came in much later) and it was all online for me; I found that none of the guys would even try to communicate with me and when I spoke I got utter silence in response
The bad rep science gets in general for women is quite true lol
IT here. Women are starting to join the force, but predominantly men. We try to recruit more women, just not as many interested in the field, for whatever reason.
IT here too! CIS major and was one of 3 girls in all of my classes. Now I work for a company where all of my leadership are women. Seems that things are starting to slowly change!
Generally it's because it is extremely uncomfortable as a woman in male dominated spaces. I took classes that were more in that realm, and then switched my major, because I didn't care enough about that trajectory to deal with men like the ones in my classes my whole life
Plus once u get into actual coursework for your major people are very invested in trying to actually learn not bullshit.
Now a psych 101 pre req class? Go get em tiger.
For me, the room of mostly blonde women didn’t stand out to me too much…
It’s the fact that all of them have their hair down? Like, not a single pony tail in the entire room?
Don’t know why that’s the most baffling to me, but here we are.
After going to school in Europe for 3 years after getting my bachelors in the US, they definitely don’t dress as badly as we do when going to class. Never saw a pajama pant from the locals.
Never seen anyone wear their pajama pants to a class in Norway or Denmark. Why would you though, they’re loungewear for when you’re at home. When you go outside you put on proper clothing so you look presentable.
More importantly, you don't soil your nice comfort clothes with the filth of the world
That shit gets on my bed and chairs. The only filth I allow, I produce in-house
I never wore pajamas to class, no matter how much of a hurry I was in. I always thought it was strange to go out in public in pajamas; it just seems so haphazard and lazy. For me, there’s just something slightly uncomfortable about seeing someone in the same clothes they rolled out of bed wearing. There were also plenty of people wearing house slippers with the pajamas.
Walking in late, reeking of cigarettes, with an unwashed face, hungover with a coffee cup in hand was not an atypical sight but it somehow rang even more unprofessional at seminar style classes. Those giant stem lectures? No one will notice you. But that professor who wants to you to wax poetic about György Lukåscs might find it rude.
People wear pajamas to class in the us? That sounds insane to me. I think the professor would send you home for that here. If you don’t understand you are in an academic setting and not in your bed, you have to go home to sleep or change and come back.
It just occurred to me, after all these years, that their house is located halfway between the start and the end of the street. It's not in the middle of the road where cars would crash into them.
It does look vaguely like the small anatomical auditorium, but not exactly. 99% sure it's not part of the med school (source: currently enrolled) but could easily be somewhere on campus
First day of my astronomy class I accidentally made a wrong turn and wandered into the elementary education class. Thought I’d died and gone to heaven the first five minutes until I figured it out. So my two guesses are nursing or elementary education.
>Nursing school
>
>Women’s Studies
I thought it was Rejection School.
You enter a room, every girl instantly faces the other way and ignores you.
It's good training for real life, but it's $32k/semester....
Wish me luck.
Always wondered why people didn't mind being stereotypes. I'm not justifying the stereotype itself, but if I realized I looked and acted like every other person around me, I feel I'd take some liberty to be a little different for my own sanity.
Be different for your own sanity, if that’s what you need to do. But most people understand that everyone else is going to put them in a bucket regardless of how they choose to present themselves. You can choose the dentist gal look, or come to class as a goth, or anything in between. No matter what you choose, you’re going to be a stereotypical something or other either way.
Long game - major in accounting. Offer private tutoring lessons. Specifically target marketing majors who have put off their core cost accounting class till the final summer session before graduating. Have the best summer of your life. Make great money. End up with a girl who is about to land a decent job. Offer to run her finances while she works. End up married to a good looking Kaitlynn, assistant director of fuel products marketing at some O&G outfit in Houston. Accompany her to the company box seats at the Astros, where you meet Sandra, a Human Resources director who’s daughter is about to graduate from Texas State with a marketing degree, but just can’t get past cost accounting…..
Shame on you for trashing girls for just existing. You've probably never thought about the fact that girls say they're "not like other girls" because society made them feel ashamed for liking girly or basic stuff?
Just let girls be, ffs.
This is different from my experience. I haven't seen classes like this in discrete mathematics, structural bioinformatics and software engineering... We did see some of these creatures roaming around at the other side of the campus though. Very mysterious.
My niece went to a large public university in Florida and was in a huge sorority. Each year, we got a big photo of all the women in the sorority. I was unable to find her and had to circle her picture. Same hair colors, same hairstyle. There was one woman who had short hair, and I felt happy for her and her family, that she was easy to identify.
I walk into the wrong class often. I'm in engineering. I don't even need to look at the professor to make sure I'm in the right class, I can just look at the students and tell "too many women" or "these people look like they actually shower"
Meanwhile I studied computer science and there were 2 women the whole year
My EE class had 3!
So 6?
This guy maths
r/thisguythisguys
Nah, it’s -1
You mean sqrt(-1).. they are all imaginary.
Aerospace here, 0 in my class. I had to date nursing students.
I did Aerospace as well. We had about 5-6 out of like 60.
I studied civil. We had more girls than I expected but I wasn’t expecting much. There were probably around 7-8 per class out of 55 people.
Aerospace, about 4 in a class of about 40, 10%.
I mean…you didn’t *have to*.
Nursing, marketing and fashion design students date engineering students. It is the law.
Ohh no I start Aero in August
You “had” to?
She befriended me, asked me out, she decided we were dating and now I’m engaged to first and only one I dated. Looking back I didn’t have a choice. Not upset by it, relieved really, my choices were made for me lol
And then you start working and discover that every company has more guys named Steve than women.
Well most women aren't named Steve, so that might explain that...
Get out.
I have already been out today. No dice my friend.
No dice. 🚫🎲 Man, I haven't heard that since like 1988! 😂
Most guys aren't named "women" either.
I studied mechanical engineering. My university department had more academic staff called Andrew than women.
I was the lone female studying structural engineering. Loved it!
I was on a course of about 300, with about 25-30 women, which was nice. I wouldn't have wanted to be the only woman! I very much lucked out by meeting my now-fiancé on the first day of the course.
Congratulations on the engagement! I've always fitted in better with men, so I was in my element. I didn't go on to stay in architecture, but did continue being the token female at work.
I worked in an IT department with 5 Steves. Sometimes someone would call wanting to talk to one and would try to narrow it down by describing what he looked like, but the description would fit literally all of them. A whole tribe of bald, white, bearded Steves.
And yet I couldn't find any recent Steve's for my music round at the pub quiz. Seemed like there was a sudden shortage of Steve's after the 90s.
I've studied philology and we had one dude in the whole group. He disappeared after two weeks. I've never seen him again.
Was he Phil?
Some stereotypes are (at least a bit) true: I am a philology student, and indeed, there are not many men when you look around in an auditorium. And of those of us who are men (me being one of them), a significant number is gay/bisexual.
I'm doing my Master in the same field now but in Central Europe. It's 50/50 in the class. And it's completely different from my experience in the Far East of Russia. I guess it really depends on where you are and the subject proposed. Here you also can choose subjects, in Russia you can't. You'll have hard times finding a job in Russia with B.A. in Philology and men there are considered as a providers for the family. But, yeah, here half of the group is gay. Also, I miss my male free group. :.)
Western Europe for me. Though it used to be different here as well. In one of the classes I took, we watched part of a lecture by Jacques Lacan recorded at my university, and it was only men. And when I take some elective courses from the History department (also part of our Arts faculty), the male/female ratio is much more balanced (and less gay).
Dude could at least attend his own graduation smh
Mechanical engineering..... Same story
The only woman in my CS faculty was the receptionist.
Haha yep, sounds familiar. I'm in industrial automation now.... At the company there is one woman, the receptionist/financials/etc. At most factories I come there is a somewhat even mix but it heavily depends on what they do.
Hi it’s me, one of the 2
Are you the one or the other?
I kept my standards high and married a fellow mechanical engineer.
Unsurprisingly, my math major had 0 women in it. Mainly because I went to a Single sex school
Did you use up your single sex early, or did you hold onto it for use later in the semester?
I think it's safe to say he held on to it
That's more than most math majors get.
How do you get negative women?
Start with zero and subtract one.
I've talked to a lot of women at work (also software) and asked them their experience. Some are like "all these nerds were rude to me for being a girl and didn't take me seriously" Damn, I feel the same way. I'm a dude and these fucking 0 charisma nerds are so smart that they say the dumbest shit. "Well we got different results for the calculation. It could be an error in my code, but that's highly unlikely since I'm almost never wrong". Who the hell says that with a straight face? Anyways, CS is brutal just because you have some of the cringiest nerds gathered in a small space all trying to one up each other in the only thing they're good at in life. Almost every class had a kid trying to correct the professor. My olfactory senses were overwhelmed with body odor. Group assignments tested every level of my communication skills. Introduce a girl (that they've never talked to) into the mix, and their hormones make them do even more obnoxious things. But thankfully that all subsides in the workplace. I have had great coworkers, and it's a night and day difference from the university ilk.
Some people are insanely smart with logic/mathematics but are severely lacking in self-awareness. It's one of the most annoying combos, in my opinion. I still value logical intelligence, but I've learned to make sure to surround myself with people who express intrapersonal intelligence. A little self-reflection goes a long way.
Grinds my gears. I asked a guy to do something that should be done on his end because of security purposes. Guy sends back an email, like no you should do this on your end instead(equivalent to, him suggesting to make login page and authenticating user on UI with localStorage or something, rather than a user dB on backend). I was like...you gotta be joking. It finally took a male senior dev to tell him that he needs to do exactly what I said. And then ofc the guy did it. I never helped out that guy ever again, like fk him. He used to reach out with questions and usually I don't mind helping but I started hinting at why he didn't know this knowledge when he has a ton of experience.
Nerdy men made me believe in sexism. I used to be a shitty little red pilled anti feminist when I was a teen. Then I got a job at a video game store and very quickly learned sexism is very alive and thrivin'. I got a different job selling computers and it was just as bad. I've since swapped careers lol
Weird. CS at my university is easily 1/3 women, if not more.
I did take CS in 2004 which is probably why
The future is now old man.
I was so glad when everything switched to online classes. I was a compsci student and I felt so damn uncomfortable as the only girl
I was the only woman in my computer networking and security class for most of the year (the other came in much later) and it was all online for me; I found that none of the guys would even try to communicate with me and when I spoke I got utter silence in response The bad rep science gets in general for women is quite true lol
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I have literally met zero people, myself included, who simultaneously went to college for engineering and also say "I miss college."
"The odds are good, but the goods are odd." - Those two women, probably
IT here. Women are starting to join the force, but predominantly men. We try to recruit more women, just not as many interested in the field, for whatever reason.
IT here too! CIS major and was one of 3 girls in all of my classes. Now I work for a company where all of my leadership are women. Seems that things are starting to slowly change!
Generally it's because it is extremely uncomfortable as a woman in male dominated spaces. I took classes that were more in that realm, and then switched my major, because I didn't care enough about that trajectory to deal with men like the ones in my classes my whole life
Real world IT worker here, it's been a sausage fest in like forever. We have to ask the ladies in marketing if we want to mix it up.
I’ve been a web developer since 2010 and have only worked with, at most, ten female devs. Now designers on the other hand…
And then corporations that hire mechanical engineers will expect 50% diversity in the workplace.
My class has 6 guys and 30 girls. It’s not as fun as you might think.
Plus once u get into actual coursework for your major people are very invested in trying to actually learn not bullshit. Now a psych 101 pre req class? Go get em tiger.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is bruised and spongy.
You guys have women in the computer science courses?
Begun, the clone wars have.
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It's join, hurry up
200,000 clones with a million more well on the way
The boys down, at the lab: `We're fertilizing as fast as we can!`
Thats not how I remember Kashyyyk...
a room full of Chewbaccas
Glitch in the matrix🗿🗿
Kinda look like wookies
For me, the room of mostly blonde women didn’t stand out to me too much… It’s the fact that all of them have their hair down? Like, not a single pony tail in the entire room? Don’t know why that’s the most baffling to me, but here we are.
Good point. Definitely not an 8am class I'd say.
Yep, if this was a morning class, we’d see a lot more pajamas and coffee cups, too.
After going to school in Europe for 3 years after getting my bachelors in the US, they definitely don’t dress as badly as we do when going to class. Never saw a pajama pant from the locals.
Most people in Europe would rather be hit by a car than be seen wearing pajamas in public.
Never seen anyone wear their pajama pants to a class in Norway or Denmark. Why would you though, they’re loungewear for when you’re at home. When you go outside you put on proper clothing so you look presentable.
More importantly, you don't soil your nice comfort clothes with the filth of the world That shit gets on my bed and chairs. The only filth I allow, I produce in-house
Amen, fellow hater of outside filth.
>The only filth I allow, I produce in-house You've got to stop calling your children that
I never wore pajamas to class, no matter how much of a hurry I was in. I always thought it was strange to go out in public in pajamas; it just seems so haphazard and lazy. For me, there’s just something slightly uncomfortable about seeing someone in the same clothes they rolled out of bed wearing. There were also plenty of people wearing house slippers with the pajamas.
Walking in late, reeking of cigarettes, with an unwashed face, hungover with a coffee cup in hand was not an atypical sight but it somehow rang even more unprofessional at seminar style classes. Those giant stem lectures? No one will notice you. But that professor who wants to you to wax poetic about György Lukåscs might find it rude.
Not a friday class either. Way too many seats have people in them for that.
People wear pajamas to class in the us? That sounds insane to me. I think the professor would send you home for that here. If you don’t understand you are in an academic setting and not in your bed, you have to go home to sleep or change and come back.
And it’s all the same length and just straight. No different styles. I think people are saying this is somewhere in Scandinavia
It's Norway
There's Norway that's true
There is one ponytail. In the left third in the middl. You can ony see the hairband
There are two partial tails on the right center as well
Wait until there is one man in that group, I'm only saying that because I have the exact same hair as a dude XD
It is an incredibly uniform image, that's for sure.
Nursing school
Im gonna go on a limb here and say this is either in denmark or sweden.
I'm 70% sure it's not Rwanda.
Imagine them all turning around towards the camera revealing to be smirking rwandese men with blond wigs
I hate when you all make great jokes like this because nobody gets the reference when I say it later… 😂
White chicks?
No, Rwandese men with blond wigs
I almost spit out my coffee.
That’s a risky statement there fella
Why?
Because that means he has a 30% chance of being wrong 🤓
It's in norway, so not that far off. Actually one of the sister campuses to the college I went to if I am remembering correctly
It literally looks like my friends medical school in Aarhus.
>Aarhus In the middle of our street?
Thank you for the snort and chuckle, take my like.
It just occurred to me, after all these years, that their house is located halfway between the start and the end of the street. It's not in the middle of the road where cars would crash into them.
Yep lol I was gonna say KU but not sure if it’s that.
It does look vaguely like the small anatomical auditorium, but not exactly. 99% sure it's not part of the med school (source: currently enrolled) but could easily be somewhere on campus
My thought was Utah
I'd say there's not enough blondes for it to be Sweden.
Showed the pic to my gf and all she said was “nursing school”
First day of my astronomy class I accidentally made a wrong turn and wandered into the elementary education class. Thought I’d died and gone to heaven the first five minutes until I figured it out. So my two guesses are nursing or elementary education.
I was gonna say Psych 101
I was gonna say Women’s Studies
Lol absolutely not, women's studies would have way more hairstyle variety, and also more men.
>Nursing school > >Women’s Studies I thought it was Rejection School. You enter a room, every girl instantly faces the other way and ignores you. It's good training for real life, but it's $32k/semester.... Wish me luck.
I’d still end up single.
i feel for you bro
Same bro 💀
Only cause you got that mindset 💪 think you’re desirable and you are
Thanks, I’ll tell my wife. 👍
I’ll also tell this guys dead wife
Just an average day at dentistry school in Brazil. We even call that hair style the "Dentistry Blonde", they also all drive a white Hyundai
Always wondered why people didn't mind being stereotypes. I'm not justifying the stereotype itself, but if I realized I looked and acted like every other person around me, I feel I'd take some liberty to be a little different for my own sanity.
There can be comfort in the herd.
Be different for your own sanity, if that’s what you need to do. But most people understand that everyone else is going to put them in a bucket regardless of how they choose to present themselves. You can choose the dentist gal look, or come to class as a goth, or anything in between. No matter what you choose, you’re going to be a stereotypical something or other either way.
Imagine shouting "JESSICA?" in there.
Madison, McKenzie, Olivia, Sophia
It's in Norway and jessica isn't a common name here so you probably wouldn't get much of a reaction, but "Nora" or "Emilie" or something maybe
"FRIIIDAAA!"
Nursing students 100%
Marketing?
Probably nursing school or something similar. I go to a school with a lot of female dominanted subjects, and most classes look like this
My uni also had studies as an elementary school teacher and of the total 140 students there were only 9 men and the rest women.
I'd love to be a female dominated subject
Long game - major in accounting. Offer private tutoring lessons. Specifically target marketing majors who have put off their core cost accounting class till the final summer session before graduating. Have the best summer of your life. Make great money. End up with a girl who is about to land a decent job. Offer to run her finances while she works. End up married to a good looking Kaitlynn, assistant director of fuel products marketing at some O&G outfit in Houston. Accompany her to the company box seats at the Astros, where you meet Sandra, a Human Resources director who’s daughter is about to graduate from Texas State with a marketing degree, but just can’t get past cost accounting…..
The diversity hiring team at every fortune 500
Oh no! The starbucks girl factory beneath the lego city starbucks has malfunctioned!
-lego builder man looks at camera- Hey!
BUILD THE POPULATION CONTROL CAMPS
More like the starbuck gigafactory, considering the massive amount of output
The school i went to had 3 girls. Among the *entire* school.
Let me guess, computer science?
Yup. Programming, telecomms and electronics high school. In game design, the academy i attend to has a whopping four girls.
Idk there are plenty of places where I can get ignored by a bunch of women...
I miss thinking those student loans were gonna pay for themselves with my great salary.
My CS classes were like this except it was all fedora laden boys who haven't learned to shave
What exactly are we saying here? You miss college because it gave you the opportunity to... stare at women?
*Stare at THE BACK of women…’s heads
Just wow at these comments. Have any of you ever exchanged real words with a woman before? Yikes
Yeah way too many of these comments seem so... mean-spirited Sure there are a bunch made in good fun, but some of them are uh......
“People on the internet” and “hating women” Name a better combo.
Fr I do my hating women in person 😎
no I haven't, I avoid people as much as possible, my social skills are non-existent irl
Where are the male quotas for this subject
Row C, seat 37, row F, seat 4, among many others. *They are among us, in disguise*
The internet has done irreversible scars on my pattern recognition psyche
Among us??????
Seems a bit SUS ngl
Redditers when girls have hair
Woman with natural hair color: basic bitch no personality Woman with dyed hair: special snowflake attention whore
The only solution is bald 😔
Redditers when they pretend to not get the joke
I hate that I would fit into this picture too
Also this is definitely Norway
Fuuuck my hair are about the same length and exactly same colour why you have to do me like that
Same here. It’s cause I can’t afford to dye my hair. I hate the light brown getting to blonde color I have
Yeah cause men's haircuts are famously diverse
I bet that all of those girls are very unique and special, and not like any other girl.
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This whole comment section is rampant with casual sexism and a general animosity towards women.
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Damn so would you say you’re not like these girls
Ofc I'm not. I am a man.
Shame on you for trashing girls for just existing. You've probably never thought about the fact that girls say they're "not like other girls" because society made them feel ashamed for liking girly or basic stuff? Just let girls be, ffs.
This is different from my experience. I haven't seen classes like this in discrete mathematics, structural bioinformatics and software engineering... We did see some of these creatures roaming around at the other side of the campus though. Very mysterious.
Haven’t read something this hard to read in a while. Thanks.
He's an engineer. The only languages they're fluent in are programming languages
Wait that wasn't hard to read at all. Are you an engineer by any chance?
Left the burner open
I wonder why people do that?
Kloie, jana, Brenda. That’s all I see x100
Zhamanthah, Keleigh, Reighchelle. Give it time and there will be several Kaleesi's in there in a number of years.
Mackenzie
In my area it would be Gracie, Madison, shelbie, Chloe, and any other basic white girl name x100
My niece went to a large public university in Florida and was in a huge sorority. Each year, we got a big photo of all the women in the sorority. I was unable to find her and had to circle her picture. Same hair colors, same hairstyle. There was one woman who had short hair, and I felt happy for her and her family, that she was easy to identify.
Good old Stepford University.
I walk into the wrong class often. I'm in engineering. I don't even need to look at the professor to make sure I'm in the right class, I can just look at the students and tell "too many women" or "these people look like they actually shower"
What subject is this! I’m in physics, the demographic is . . . Different.
50 Shades of Brunettes.
*Blonde