Female Scientist Invites Mansplainers To Gaslight Her On Twitter

It must be so rewarding to go through 5+ years of university, become an expert in a topic, receive your PhD, all that jazz, and then still continue to get gaslighted by people who know literally nothing about anything. I don't know how these people keep their cool. I guess just knowing that you are extremely intelligent is enough to allow you to resist the urge to explode all over them. Plus, exploding won't change anything, mansplainers are always going to mansplain. We must accept it, it's truly in their nature.

Perhaps the best tactic is just to laugh at them. And what better place than on Twitter?

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    Font - Dr. Héloïse Stevance (she) @Sydonahi Hi I'm a women with a PhD on supernovae and how massive stars die. Mansplain my area of expertise to me. Wrong answers only a @AcademicChatter #WomenlnSTEM 11:04 AM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for Android
    via @Sydonahi

    Twitter user @Sydonahi is a woman who earned a PhD on supernovae, she clearly knows a thing or two about massive stars, but she invited people to mansplain her area of expertise to her. Clearly it's something she's already used to as a successful woman in STEM but she said, "Hey, why not just see how creative people can be?"

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    Font - Marion Holloway @MarionJHolloway Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter If you like supernova, you should really read this paper by Stevance et al. that I saw online but haven't actually read myself. I think you could learn a lot from him, he's top of his field. 11:33 AM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for Android
    via @MarionJHolloway

    I love how a lot of women commented too. They obviously have been mansplained to enough to guess what people might say to a female with a PhD. It's kind of eye-opening how realistic these comments seem at times, but most of them are just straight-up ridiculous, and that's the best part.

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    Font - Wandrille @WandrilleV Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Are you sure you don't get astrophysics and astrology mixed up? I met a lot of women who confused both and I think you do. I'm cancer btw and I love how stars impact our day-to-day life. 8:57 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @WandrilleV
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    Font - Luc Tremblay @_lucre Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Stars are like girls. They eat (call it accrete, but still) and go big. So big they explode, like girls. In fact, star is a feminine word in French. Can't be a coincidence. Why don't you write a paper on that? Double space it to up page count, it'll impress your male colleague 3:31 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for Android
    via @_lucre
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    Font - Dr Stuart D Wilson ... @Daspar Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter "Look I think you're becoming too emotional and attached to the massive stars. You have to be more objective to be successful." 11:15 AM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
    via u/Daspar
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    Font - Sarah Adams @SarahJoyAdams Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter No no, shut up. I know a lot about this...(regales you with ideas from Wikipedia that are 30 years out of date) (Yes, those exact words were how a guy tried to explain my dissertation topic to me.) 10:22 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @SarahJoyAdams
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    Font - Alan @AGallcobhair Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter I could have studied supernova and stars and stuff, cos I'm really clever. Obviously I still know lots about them, probably more than you. Massive stars die because they have no close friends and are lonely. 7:32 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter Web App
    via @AGallcobhair
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    Font - jacob @jampisces Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Actually, they're only champagne supernovae if they are from the Champagne region of France. 8:09 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter Web App
    via @jampisces
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    Font - Stormy G @SDNR87 Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter So you like to keep your head in the clouds all day, eh? Speaking of Massive Stars dying, I had a friend back in 70 who knew a guy who saw Jimmy Hendrix before he passed away. 2:29 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
    via u/SDNR87
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    Font - Anita Bowles, PhD ... @ani_ta_twee_ta Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Have you considered watching Carl Sagan's shows on t.v.? I think it's on PBS. It could help you understand about stars and their life cycles. 6:28 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @ani_ta_twee_ta
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    Font - Allen Versfeld @uastronomer · Mar 23 ... You're probably only looking at various movies called Supernova, but there are actually several bands by that name too, some of which might also have heavily built star performers. Many of these stars die young because musicians are known for living lives of excess. 1 19 Dr. Héloïse Stevance @Sydonahi (she) ... Replying to @uastronomer @StargazerRob and @AcademicChatter Name 5 albums by supernovae. I knew it you're not a real fan 12:46 PM · Mar 23,
    via @uastronomer
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    Font - Heather Rose Walker, PhD (that diabetic academic) @Heather_RoseW Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Oh yeah I actually researched that one time. This dude on YouTube, who works for NASA, said that most big stars move away from us, which is why it seems like they die. He wrote a book about it. Maybe you can check it out, it might help with your studies.
    via @Heather_RoseW
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    Font - Fyezah Jehan @FyezahJehan Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Please forgive me, but doesn't star gazing require to be out in the field and a lot of time away from family? 2:25 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for iPhone
    via @FyezahJehan
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    Font - The Messy PhD Coach | Jamie Khoo @jpfkhoo ... Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Dr. Stevance has already done extensive research on supernovae and how massive stars die. You really should refer to his work (yes, HIS, only a man could do research of this complexity) before you proceed further with yours S 2:42 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter Web App
    via @jpfkhoo
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    Font - Scott Large ... @hawkskull Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Actually, it's supernovas and stars don't die, they just run out of fuel, like if you forget to fill up your car, which of course every woman has done at some point, so it's still there, it just doesn't "go" any more. <l can't believe I just typed that> 4:34 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter Web App
    via @hawkskull
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    Font - Martin Kjeldsen @mostlykjeldsen Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter "Actually, we usually say 'nova', short for supernova. Did you even _watch_ star trek? Everyone knows that a supernova can create subspace shockwaves that collapse warp fields and disrupt computers with electromagnet pulses. It's on Netflix if you need some pointers" 9:01 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for Android
    via @mostlykjeldsen
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    Font - agtmadcat _O @agtmadcat Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Actually stars aren't real so you can't be an "expert" in them any more than you can be an "expert" in other pretend things like unicorns or faeries or the female orgasm. I am very smart. 11:34 AM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter for Android
    via @agtmadcat
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    Font - Roberto I. O. @rimfo Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter They don't really die, those massive stars. You're overreacting. 11:58 AM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter Web App
    via @rimfo
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    Font - DiableAuCorps (VoteForMelanieACA CSA2021) @Velo_Maniaq WON Replying to @Sydonahi and @AcademicChatter Actually it's Supernova not supernovae. You should read some books abt astrophisics. I watch youtube videos on space, I know things. 4:37 PM · Mar 23, 2021 · Twitter Web App
    via @DiableAuCorps

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