Z: Did you enjoy Madison?
Person from Houston: Yes, but it was really hard.
Z: How so? Is it really as cutthroat as one sometimes hears?
Person from Houston: No. It was that I had to learn how not to defer to men. You are not expected to do that there, and doing it does not get the results it gets here. It was really hard to learn how to operate in a different way.
I, of course, have always been on the opposite journey, so this was an interesting conversation. I do say, though, that all the time and energy I have spent and spend on this aspect of Reeducation is time and energy that could go to research and teaching, and that the entire exercise and its result is also detrimental to research and teaching.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 