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[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 18 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Backend developer for certain, owing to ponytail theory.

Shame the original wording is so 2005. And right-to-left, for some reason.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus 1 points 10 months ago

It's before they realised that people read Engish left-to-right, and the punchline is best at the end, I guess.

Suggested explanation: Women in educated professions often need their hair out of the way, and not just theoretically. Life sciences being a mostly-female and particularly pus-splattered example.

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