Here's the thing. You said a "North American river otter understands semiconductors."

Is it in the same subfamily as the other otters? Yes. No one's arguing that.

Listen bub, us North American River otters can be engineers, too. It's just that societal structures that hold many of my fellow species back. I don't appreciate the generalizations.

They aren't bumpkins, they're just far more likely to major in pure math or biology.