If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment…Is It Really a Compliment?

Two weeks ago I was at Science Online 2012, the annual conference for science bloggers and writers in Raleigh, NC. While there, I attended the session on Blogging Science While Female (a more detailed summary of the session can be found here ). At the session, many of the women in the room expressed discouragement at how many comments they have received that, while seemingly complimentary, somehow still felt wrong

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If It Looks Like a Compliment, and Sounds Like a Compliment…Is It Really a Compliment?