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I don’t know a lot of people who assume the name Paola is male. This feels like a strawman argument.
This is definitely a self-tell. They will see an article or comments that only refers to her as a “scientist” with no gender and assume the article or person is referring to them as male because that’s what they think when they see “scientist”.
I simply do not accept people waste calories trying to gender titles that are irrelevant to the article or when the scientist’s name is easily looked up. This reads as strawman ragebait and it’s exhausting.
yeah I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone confusing who the scientist is. I also don’t get why anyone would think an event happening in Bolivia would include white people
I don’t care to speculate on how people are racially classified as it’s an irrelevant concept, but she may consider herself white.
https://explorers.nationalgeographic.org/directory/paola-m-nogales-ascarrunz
At no point did I think of the scientists gender. I don’t think I ever have considered the gender of a scientist.
Hell another cat could’ve discovered this cat and I’d never know until someone mentioned it.
Holy fucking strawman
And here I was imagining a diverse group of scientists, because science is rarely done by just one person anyway.
The name is Paola not Paolo so that should have been a hint right there.
Have people been assuming they’re a white guy?
I can’t even really think of a context when discussing the cat when the scientists gender and especially race would come up?
I am normally pretty pessimistic, but can’t imagine this either, like someone would say “did you hear about that new cat they found?” not “hey, did you hear about that new cat some white, straight, Christian guy found?”
It appears to be a US American thing.
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I want to snuggle with the kitty.
We discover a new species. what’s the first thing we do? We put it in a cage.
Humanity in a nutshell.
I think the cat ended up in a shelter (I don’t know the reason though) and then they discovered it didn’t match the other cat species known about. So it happened the other way around.
It was apparently found as a kitten by someone who thought it was a standard cat, then after a year of what I can only assume was murder kitty behaviour, they took it to a shelter
It really is peak cat when it takes a full year with a wild, feral animal to notice it’s behaviour isn’t just cat being cat.
Jane Goodall? Isn’t she well known.
She didn’t identify the cat. She is pretty famous, tho. Also that woman who’s all radioactive.
What kind of white guy has a feminine Latina name?
Thank you to those who tried to translate for the contextually bereft.
I just thought it was cool to see a picure of the person who identified our new Babu.
“Extreamly weird how many people I’ve seen assume she is a white guy”
I thought she was a cat. That’s what we were talking about. White? She is more of a yellow orange with tan to brown spots.
/s
Hey some of us can’t tell races easily, she just looks like any white woman
What if she’s not a woman? or white? or real? Maybe she’s trans. Not transgender… transdimensional.
Maybe they exist in a space that occupies your mind but not on this physical plane? What if all we see of them is but a piece of the knowable whole and our perceptions give it the shape of what we think it should be? Like an iceberg breaching through dimensional surface, forced into focus by our rules of reality.
How else could they discover that which was unknown?
You got your HRT, and then you got your SMRT (Spice Melange Replacement Therapy)
Time to . . . Par-tee-down?
She’s Bolivian. That doesn’t say anything about the color of her skin.
She doesn’t look white to me. She looks hispanic to me.
A person being not black doesn’t make them white.
You are just not racist enough. Let’s hear it from Ben Franklin (emphasis mine, on top delusion).
Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth
So he excluded everyone but himself and his buddies?
I forget where but I saw a meme of a geogueser type thing that goes based off of race of people, I don’t think I’d do well with that one
