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24 Post author: Dorikka 09 September 2013 03:32AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 14 September 2013 03:04:22PM 1 point [-]

(especially the elder generations, who happen to be the most useful to impress) are often still prejudiced in all the usual ways

Even that is less true in the hard sciences. I once had a professor in his mid sixties compliment me for my Clockwork Orange t-shirt after an oral exam, and most of faculty here seldom wears anything more formal than a polo shirt or a pullover.