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Interesting to point that the woman never made it to the tenure position...
She also skipped grad school and grad student by that logic.
And she also never died!
Did you just assume a tombstone's gender?
Disregarding the tasteless "joke", every person is different, so why would we presume the corpse is any of them?
Women earn the majority of college degrees at all levels and in all majors.
Is that a local or worldwide statistic? I would be surprised to learn this was true in the United States, much less globally. Got a link?
Have you ever once, in your entire life, been to a university campus anywhere? I've observed this with my mk I eyeballs and a functioning brain while attending university.
I've never heard or seen any colleges' Computer Science/IT departments that have more women than men. Just my personal experience in the US, maybe it's different in other countries.
its actually the same person in all the stages
they are a genderfluid shapeshifter
Alas, I realize my comment was misunderstood... I was merely pointing the choice of the cartoonist
The most interesting thing to me is that everyone took it as
Hence downvoted to hell
As opposed to
Because you can get much angrier at one of those, is my guess, and people love to be angry.
Downvoted because nothing in the comic supports either comment.