Comic #1224: 2008-08-24

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Description

Comic Description:

Panel 1:

• A classroom setting.
• A woman with dark hair and a purple top is speaking.
• She says: "Professor Higgins… a lot of us feel like your research is kinda… well… sexist…"
• Professor Higgins, a balding man with glasses and a gray beard, responds.
• He says: "Sexist? Because I think women scientists are integral to the future of energy research?"

Panel 2:

• Features a diagram labeled "FIG. 12."
• The diagram includes:
  • A large turbine in the center.
  • Two stick figures labeled "Ugly chicks" on the left, looking unimpressed.
  • Several stick figures labeled "men fleeing" on the right, running away from the turbine.

The comic touches on themes of sexism in research and representations of women in science.