I’m in high school and working on where I’ll be going for collage, though I don’t really have to worry about it for a couple more years. I already know what I want to major in: Paleontology. I get a lot of surprised, confused, and startled looks because I am a girl who wants to study dinosaurs. This has been happening since I was in kindergarten, at least that’s the easiest memory.
People don’t think that I would be interested in dinosaurs and prehistory simply because I’m female. Fun fact, most of the time I know more about dinosaurs and prehistory than the guy questioning me. Normally they are still at the ‘plesiosaurs and pterosaurs are dinosaurs’ stage.
It really ticks me off that people who know less about the the field I’m going into can judge me and tell me that I can’t do that job because I am female.
I will chew these guys out though. The looks on their faces is priceless.
