>>11450016You didn't post this in scientific good faith, but the question does have legitimate angles when considered seriously.
The (tranny?)-thing you posted is an extraordinary case, but the idea makes sense up to a point. If you're a halfway attractive woman, everyone will be after you for sex, sooner or later. On the one hand, this may impede work (Galois died very young, in a duel over a presumably non-STEM woman, if the popular account is taken at face value). On the other, it might stimulate work in some cases (the Curies). Consider another angle: the very ugly woman who throws herself into her work. She may cloister herself in a career, but depression and other risk factors may present over time.
It seems to me that this is a sociological problem with multiple variables, which must be considered before a coherent hypothesis can be formed. In my own small sample, I do remember my old math department chair as being a plain, tall algebraist nearing 70, a bit mannish in certain things. I don't actually think she was a lesbian, surprisingly, but I don't know for sure, never got into that with anyone. Think I heard/read in passing once that she had a husband.
