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I'm lucky that as an adult male engineer, I've never been asked whether or not I was a "real" engineer and horrible things like the woman in the original post was. However, I paid dearly for my choice in interests as a child when I was physically bullied to the point that I was forced to change elementary schools. I was also ostracized significantly (by both men and women) in high school for being "a computer nerd". Don't assume that no male engineer understands what it is like to "endure similar stuff".