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Tutorial Mode is also seen in politics and the work place, in fields like STEM. For example, women only take up about 20-30% of STEM college fields, yet represent 50% of workplace positions in STEM (see [[women in STEM]]). | Tutorial Mode is also seen in politics and the work place, in fields like STEM. For example, women only take up about 20-30% of STEM college fields, yet represent 50% of workplace positions in STEM (see [[women in STEM]]). | ||
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Women were upset that [[Asperger's Syndrome|autists]] were being autists (not new) and complained that incels were using the scientific term 'female' instead of 'woman' in incel forums. In response to the complaint being dumb, as you can't always substitute 'woman' for 'female', many incels stopped using the word 'female'. And instead of chosing a more neutral word they chose a more dehumanizing term, 'femoid', to make fun of women hating the word 'female' and to make fun of their own autism. | Women were upset that [[Asperger's Syndrome|autists]] were being autists (not new) and complained that incels were using the scientific term 'female' instead of 'woman' in incel forums. In response to the complaint being dumb, as you can't always substitute 'woman' for 'female', many incels stopped using the word 'female'. And instead of chosing a more neutral word they chose a more dehumanizing term, 'femoid', to make fun of women hating the word 'female' and to make fun of their own autism. | ||
Femoids is sometimes used synonymously toilets.<ref>https://incels.is/threads/toilet-hate-thread.182501/</ref><ref>https://incels.is/threads/please-stop-calling-women-toilets.190790/</ref> | |||
==Dykes== | ==Dykes== | ||
In dating, women tend to react as negatively to women as men do. This can seen in lesbians posting on social anxiety boards (and incels.co, see [[Chewbacca]]) and FTM transsexuals that try to [[date]] women. Dykes find out how hard it is to get past a woman's hind-brained paranoia about strangers and new people, and end up bitterly single. | In dating, women tend to react as negatively to women as men do. This can seen in lesbians posting on social anxiety boards (and incels.co, see [[Chewbacca]]) and FTM transsexuals that try to [[date]] women. Dykes find out how hard it is to get past a woman's hind-brained paranoia about strangers and new people, and end up bitterly single. | ||