These studies are made through a lens of "men have frail egos, how else can we frame this viewpoint".
I don't give a fuck about "masculinity" or "femininity". If it's cheap, tastes good, and isn't full of EEEEEEs, I'll buy it. Standard "aubergine", tomatoes, spring onions and whatever aren't tasty without a whole lot of prep. Fuck salads. Give me that cheap, spicy, Indian sauce that I can lather onto sweet potato purree, carrot pasta, and pickled mango... and it costs less than a dish with a fucking steak? Hell yeah I'm buying it! Steak will be what I eat when I go out.
Make another study focusing on pricing and how much money you can save per year eating veggie and I bet my ass it'll have an impact. These stupid "my gender is better than your gender" bullshit doesn't help.
This is why I refuse hybrid or on location working as an office worker: I'm not getting paid for the commute. Fuck that. (Of course, it's also a waste of time to be in the office as it's impossible to concentrate, when you have some sales people loudly talking into their phones right opposite you as you're trying to get some though work done)
So when you buy a phone made from slave labor, are ignorant of the fact until someone tells you about it, but buy another phone built from slave labor, are you malicious?
The people who complain about those in power, sometimes turn out just as bad. These admins probably rail against capitalism, how politicians can't be trusted, and the like, but then do this kind of stuff.
Think of the question more as "person over there who is a scientist using twitter, why do you still use twitter?" and "group of people who are scientists, what are the myriad reasons you as individuals use twitter?" --> X% because of Y, A% because of B
the question is more in the vein of "why do you as a scientist still use twitter?", not "hey amorphous blob consisting of all scientists with a hive mind, tell me why you still use twitter". If you're a scientist and use twitter, why do you? And if you know scientists who do, why do they?
Why is it that #scientists hang on to #twitter? Why don't they move to #mastodon? @hildabast do you have contacts in the science community who could answer such questions?
