Females Leave Kitchen, Get Aerospace Degrees

Hannah Surber is an example of how times are changing and women are making their mark on the academic world–too bad it is still a huge deal that she has a vagina.

Graduating from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a BS and an MS completed in only 4 years, Surber is breaking a huge mold. Completing both degrees in this sort amount of time is huge for anyone, but the academic world is freaking out — because she is pretty and has boobs.

Her teacher Yi Zhao said that her accomplishment, “particularly in an academic field traditionally dominated by male students, is truly a great achievement.” It seems that men are only thought to have mathematical brains, leaving women completely incapable and better suited for other areas that are deemed less intense. Who the hell said that we cannot handle a little aerospace engineering?

The academic world operates on an obvious bias against certain groups. If you are African American, you are expected to not work as hard, so when you do, it is huge. If you are a female, you are expected to be interested in more of the less intense, more “word-based,” people-skill-needing paths like psychology, literature, or social work, so when you venture to the math side of things, you are looked at as an alien.

Take for example one of my friends from school, where she is going for free. Sure, she is smart and talented at what she does, but she is a physics major. In a field dominated by largely Asian males, she is Caucasian female. So, she goes to school for around $75 a year. She admits it herself — she is intelligent and hard-working, but she is also one of maybe five female physics majors in the department.

Some might call it selfish. She gets to go to school for barely anything, so why complain? We complain because it is clearly sexism. We should be allowed to work just as hard, if not harder, than our male counterparts and receive equal treatment. We should be praised when something is extraordinary, not just when ordinary work appears fantastic because it was completed by someone who gets a period. Hannah Surber should be receiving applause for her insane accomplishment, but only for that. Zhao can shove his sexist, “male dominating” compliment. She is awesome and that is that.

Give me money and praise for my brainpower, not my lady parts.

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