No Spoilers, Other than Oppenheimer Does Indeed Invent the Atomic Bomb
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The behind-the-scenes effort by Ken Paxton’s office to obtain data on how many Texans had changed their gender on their licenses came as he and other Republican leaders in the state have been publicly marshaling resources against transgender Texans.
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European travellers and anthropologists found that their gendered worldview didn’t easily map onto the societies they encountered.
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The female TA got five times as many negative reviews as the male TA — but they were the same person.
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In World War II, Britain invented the electronic computer. By the 1970s, its computing industry had collapsed—thanks to a labor shortage produced by sexism.
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Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female characters get to be Strong.
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