Sir
In the Futures story 'A better mouse-trap' (Nature 450, 456; 2007), a team of scientists, four men and two women, enter an abandoned space station. Upon encountering mice, “one of the women screamed, and the other jumped on a chair” and “three of the men started cursing”.
How interesting that even in the distant imagined future of AD 3014, gender stereotypes persist (although, to be fair, one of the men fainted).
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Lo, E. Space travel's no problem, but mice? They're scary. Nature 450, 1156 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/4501156e
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