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no_hypocrisy

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6. Derision for being intelligent while female.
Sun Feb 19, 2012, 09:53 AM
Feb 2012

In 1992 while enrolled in the last year at New York Law School, I was the only one in the class could answer an esoteric question on three different occasions. Nobody even raised a hand. And each time when the professor recognized I was correct, I heard a male chorus in back of me give an audible, derisive "Ooooooooooooooooooooh . . . "

My background is a liberal arts women's college and this phenomenon was foreign to me. My guess was it meant "Welcome to the mysognistic world of law."

Fortunately I haven't had any sexist discrimination during my tenure in court, at least to my face. I won't put up with it.

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