Julia Shaw

There still is.

But I actually find that it's done the opposite most of the time.

So I think as a woman, especially a young woman who's in the public eye, you're sexualized anyway, unfortunately.

And so that is and was already a huge part of my online experience.

And actually, I think coming out as bi, A, you get sort of

allies who suddenly are like, we're on your side, we're going to help you fight sort of the hypersexualization.

And people get more, almost more weird about it in a good way.

They get a bit quiet about it because they're like, oh, well, now it's an identity thing.

So maybe I shouldn't comment on what she's wearing.

And it sort of, it almost disarmed some of the more sexualized comments.

So for me, I have to say it was mostly a positive experience.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Well, if you look at my trajectory into academia and then through it, basically what happened is I was ready to go study art.

That's what happened.

I had my portfolio ready to go.

I was going to go study art at undergrad.

And then my grandfather intervened and was like, being an artist is a really hard life.

Maybe you should reconsider.

Painting.