This advice changed my view of the world. Not only did I realize
that being a teenager with a Y-chromosome can't be easy either,
it also explained why my male classmates were suddenly
developing interests in things like Special Relativity or
Scanning Tunnel Microscopes (Nobel Prize '86). It made also
sense they were usually very irritated if a girl attempted to
join them: all that was just suppressed hormones, the poor
guys*. It further revealed a deep connection between General
Relativity and potatoes that hadn't previously occurred to me.
Most disturbingly however, it labeled General Relativity as
unsexy, a fact that has bothered me ever since. Over the course
of years I moreover had to notice that General Relativity is a
subject of great mystery to many, it's a word that has entered
the colloquial language as the incomprehensible and
ununderstandably complicated result of a genius' brain. My
physics teacher notably told me when getting tired of my
questions that there are maybe three people in the world wh