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The word "Scientist" was created for female scientists. (Men were called "Man of Science")

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The word "Scientist" was created for female scientists. (Men were called "Man of Science")

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Meet Mary Somerville: The Brilliant Woman for Whom the Word “Scientist” Was Coined
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How a Scottish polymath forever changed the course of gender in science and made a high art of connecting the seemingly disconnected.

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    I can imagine decades of men correcting people and saying “IT’S MAN OF SCIENCE!” Then just giving up the fight.

  • applebusch (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    of course they wanted the word back when women made it cool. seriously though its way easier to say of course people stopped using man of science.

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    Well, that’s a scientwist 🙃

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    Science has gone woke and transed all the true Men of Science!

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      Ugh, the trans science agenda.

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    Scientivist

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    Sciento and scienta? Do we gotta general the atoms now?

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    Only scientists have scientits. No, wait both men of science and scientists, both have at least one scientits.

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    Scientress

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