Very cool. I was ready to go into science. I had quizzed into advanced calculus and loved my science classes but was told by my advisor (this was in 1967 or so) that it would be too hard so I ended up in English and education. I then went to law school. If I believed in a next life I would want to be a forensic pathologist. Some days I still wish I had gone into the hard sciences but I’ve had a good life and career and am looking forward to retirement.
I can’t imagine that I ever would have backed down from studying any subject simply because someone told me it was a “boy” subject.
In Junior High, back in the early 1970s, I was told that I couldn’t take a wood working class because it was only for boys. I did not get the idea that some things are only for boys or for girls—I might not have been allowed to take the class, but I still work with wood. We have a kitchen table that I made back in the 1980s. I’ve never been one to be stopped by nay saying!