• Tar_AlcaranEnglish
    18•3 months ago

    I just sort of expected all demonstration skeletons to be super typically male, because some male with a tophat as big as his sexism came up with it in the 1800s. Generally, my pessimistic assumptions about this end up true.

    But yeah, I realize in my pessimism I overshot into the wrong direction.

    • @python@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•3 months ago

      Dang you just unlocked a confusing memory.

      My secondary school had a demonstration skeleton, but it was the skeleton of a real person who donated their body to science.
      The teachers had given them a male name, despite the skeleton being female. Apparently kids just expected skeletons to be male for some reason, and explaining the difference every time was annoying to teachers.

      I didn’t have the brain capacity to realize that it might have been kinda messed up towards the real person that skeleton belonged to, but now that I think back on it… yeah, there’s problems with that.