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Student Records Male Classmates Repeatedly Interrupting Her During Zoom Calls And Her TikTok Goes Viral
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Student Records Male Classmates Repeatedly Interrupting Her During Zoom Calls And Her TikTok Goes Viral

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Claire McDonnell is 1 of 4 women among almost 60 men in a graduate science and finance program at the University of Iowa. And the minority have a problem.

“Some of us girls have the top standings in the program, and no matter how experienced we are, none of the men seem to take us seriously,” the 22-year-old told BuzzFeed News.

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    McDonnell got reminded of that earlier this week, when she was on a Zoom call for a commercial underwriting group project. Her male classmates were repeatedly interrupting and shutting down her ideas. It got so bad, that the woman even began recording it.

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    McDonnell said she only planned to send the video to a friend and another woman in the program. But after she watched the clip back and thought, she thought it was such a great example of “how often this happens to women in a male-dominated field,” she posted it on her public TikTok account.

    There, it immediately went viral, and has already been viewed over 2.5 million times.

    @cleaselmy male classmates love listening to my input and letting me finish my sentences ❤️. true respectful kings 🥰. ##fyp ##womeninstem ##misogyny ##men♬ original sound – Claire McDonnell

    Women from all fields have been relating to the video

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    Lily Mae Kitty
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a woman who owns and runs an estate sale company with a female partner. We do all the organization work, appraising items and selling it at the sale. We're 59 and 65 years old. We still get men who ask if there's a man they can talk to about tools, a vehicle, lawnmowers, generators, etc. It's maddening.

    deanna woods
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To everyone who reads this: This Rokas guy is just trying to be an idiot and we have to pay him no mind.

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    Leo Domitrix
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. OMG. Back in my day? It was *worse*. You didn't get into STEM if you were female, unless you did thrice as much, and thrice as well, and then? You had to dodge the male professors who saw female students as either secretaries or sex objects. And that was the early 1990s... *sigh* And in med school? People asked "Why not just be a nurse?" (OMG.) And and and... Yep. I can fix the car, the house, and the broken leg, but I need to go cook supper and hush. (And some of that came from WOMEN.) RAISE BETTER PEOPLE.

    Evil Little Thing
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    4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    During my PhD work one of the men in the program told me I should be home by five every evening because my son "deserved a childhood". Same guy got mad at me "acting cute" when I told him I would only make time to train him if he stopped showing up 20 minutes late. This was about 5 years ago.

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    Aria Whitaker
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    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks to all the men who so graciously came on here to mansplain how this has zero to do with her being a woman. We appreciate you correcting this woman on her frequent, painfully common experiences as a woman in a male dominated room, as well as the thousands of other women who have experienced this their entire lives. You surely know better than all of them...obviously the only way they would be sexist is if they actually screamed "I hate women!!"...nothing short of that can be sexist, right guys? These silly females, I swear.

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    Lily Mae Kitty
    Community Member
    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am a woman who owns and runs an estate sale company with a female partner. We do all the organization work, appraising items and selling it at the sale. We're 59 and 65 years old. We still get men who ask if there's a man they can talk to about tools, a vehicle, lawnmowers, generators, etc. It's maddening.

    deanna woods
    Community Member
    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To everyone who reads this: This Rokas guy is just trying to be an idiot and we have to pay him no mind.

    Load More Replies...
    Leo Domitrix
    Community Member
    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep. OMG. Back in my day? It was *worse*. You didn't get into STEM if you were female, unless you did thrice as much, and thrice as well, and then? You had to dodge the male professors who saw female students as either secretaries or sex objects. And that was the early 1990s... *sigh* And in med school? People asked "Why not just be a nurse?" (OMG.) And and and... Yep. I can fix the car, the house, and the broken leg, but I need to go cook supper and hush. (And some of that came from WOMEN.) RAISE BETTER PEOPLE.

    Evil Little Thing
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    During my PhD work one of the men in the program told me I should be home by five every evening because my son "deserved a childhood". Same guy got mad at me "acting cute" when I told him I would only make time to train him if he stopped showing up 20 minutes late. This was about 5 years ago.

    Load More Replies...
    Aria Whitaker
    Community Member
    4 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thanks to all the men who so graciously came on here to mansplain how this has zero to do with her being a woman. We appreciate you correcting this woman on her frequent, painfully common experiences as a woman in a male dominated room, as well as the thousands of other women who have experienced this their entire lives. You surely know better than all of them...obviously the only way they would be sexist is if they actually screamed "I hate women!!"...nothing short of that can be sexist, right guys? These silly females, I swear.

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