ibelieveitssomewhere:lorraineblack90:happykoshka-postban:sapiosexual-melomaniac:-applejakes:lazarett
ibelieveitssomewhere:lorraineblack90:happykoshka-postban:sapiosexual-melomaniac:-applejakes:lazarettoblunderbuss:scienceshenanigans:vilebloodexecutioner:maggiekarp2:seasonallydefective:shychemist:Seeing this girl with visible body mods (lip piercing, 1 inch stretched ears) who is a Chemist makes me feel better that I’ll be able to keep my current piercings and stretch my ears bigger. :)I don’t see too many scientists/Chemists/etc with body mods that often, so I thought this was neat.Plus its great to see more Women in Stem fields in general.In my experience, STEM fields are more welcoming to people with body mods than other fields. I think the only exception has been engineering, in my experience. When I was a kid the only professional fields really accepting of tattoos were tattoo artists (duh), army and police, or surgeons. For the latter two they needed to be covered by your regular outfits.Piercings are actually really surprising because just like in cooking, you run the risk of them falling off into whatever it is you’re making.(AND ENGINEERS ARE A BUNCH OF DORKS)Most STEM fields seem to be pretty accepting of body mods, because honestly, if you put in enough work to get into a STEM field and actually have that much of an interest, they have no real desire to deny you. Especially off of something as arbitrary as body modifications. I’m just sitting here wondering where she got those fly-ass goggles.I thought I wouldn’t be able to keep mine when I entered education but now I’ve seen multiple teachers with body mods and loads more with tattoos, even in places usually deemed ‘unacceptable for work’. Never had a school tell me my lip piercing wasn’t allowed yet, but I have had a minimum-wage job say it. When I worked in fast food, my coworker had to put bandaids over her “nontraditional” ear piercings.When I was a server, my coworker (who was 25 and her hair was already starting to grey naturally) was told she couldn’t dye her hair grey the way she wanted and instead had to dye it blonde.As a Lab Technician in one of the largest genomics companies in the world: I can proudly display my nose stud, one of the lab managers has a nose stud, one of my coworkers has a wrist tattoo, a good majority of my coworkers have tattoo, a coworker has dyed her hair crazy colors, a coworker has gauged earlobes, and a lot more I can’t think of right now.Don’t let anyone tell you that body mods are unprofessional. My gf is a double major in biology and microbiology, with an industrial in her right ear and soon she’ll have her eyebrow pierced. She’s a genious and her appearence or body mods will never diminish her value in her field. Adding in myself here, I’m tatted up and 9/10 times dress insanely promiscuously, and I’ve worked as an experimental researcher to develop upgrades for the large hadron collider.God I love STEM.As someone working in uni, I have both of my wrists tattooed, my middle finger, and recently my bicep area. Not only do people not give a fuck about me having tattoos, some people in the field absolutely love them. I am not the only tattoed person in my lab, my school, or at the conferences I attend. It fills me with joy I can be my most authentic self outside, as well as insideI’m a teacher, I have a nose ring, gauges and both of my arms are completely tattooed. I’ve never been asked to cover them up or take out my peircing. If you are talented at your job and work hard, those things do not deminish your capability. I also know a lot of archaeologists with visible tattoos. One of my professors has a full sleeve, and I have several that are visible when wearing a short sleeve shirt. -- source link
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