#I’m the Goralka varient of Polish-American

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Something that I’ve never seen talked about is how terrible it would be to be a woman at the SCP Foundation.

If you look at the Personnel docket, you’ll see it’s mostly men. That is not inherently a problem, but a lot of the characters written as masculine…are creepy.

Like, if you asked Clef for pronouns, you’d probably get a response like “My pronouns are daddy/[moan]”, and then you’re stuck in this weird position. You can call Clef by he or they pronouns since that’s less embarrassing and you know Clef was messing with you, but then you’ll be berated by Clef for not respecting pronouns. Or, you can call Clef daddy, which’ll get some weird reactions from whoever you’re talking to.

Or Strelnikov? If a woman was in Epsilon-5 “Red Dawn”, he’d probably be pretty vocal about his opinions of having women on the team. As shown in his Personnel File, he calls all male nurses “babies”, and I can imagine he has a very long rant prepared about that and this. As shown in his handbook, he is clueless about women. He also seems like a very traditional Russian, which brings with it the slavic gender roles. Women are expected to be subdued, which means you’d be dealing with a lot of sexism from this man, until you manage to prove to him that he’s wrong.

Iceberg too. He just seems very much like an incel, and you’d have to deal with that. Luckily, there’s no way for you to work under him like you would with Strelnikov or Clef since he’s already Gears’s assistant, but if you ever sit near him during lunch or something, it seems so uncomfortable. If you sit near him every day during lunch, he may eventually warm up to you and internalize you as “one of the good ones”, which…is still not good, but better I guess?

The others I usually write about seem better, but with these being some of the most well-known characters in the SCP Foundation, I can only imagine what craziness you’d deal with when interacting with some lesser-known personnel.

#dr alto clef #scp foundation #scp #scp fandom #scp headcanons #alto clef #dr clef #scp alto clef #agent strelnikov #scp iceberg #dr iceberg #I know what being in a male dominated workplace can be like #I was the only girl out of 20 kids in my calculus class #I’m also familiar with slavic gender roles #I’m the Goralka varient of Polish-American #sexism isn’t cool bros