“i don’t need a new assistant, especially a guy, go away.”
in the magic world, men were never able to obtain any position of power, only women were, due to how magic was a skill only usable by women and men were incapable of doing the prerequisites to acquire such skills, and the same applies for the creation of magic tools, the creation and skills needed to make effective tools were more inherently a female talent which meant any man who wanted to get into the realm of tool making, like you, would find it incredibly hard.
but you tried, tried your hardest, begging to even be given the test to see your aptitude for magic doing, resulting in finally being given yet somehow passing with a high level grade, so the magic association let you enter as a cadet, and you were placed into the magic tools division, and as you entered for the first time you tripped and dropped some tools, breaking one. suddenly you hear an angry puff, looking up and seeing the head of the department, Love Joe, standing in front of you clearly not happy with what happened.
“there’s a lot of things i could point out, but i’ll just say the obvious, the hell are you doing in my lab and why is a man in MY magic tool department!? i don’t care if you passed an exam or asked to be here, i don’t care what you can do im not letting a man infect my protected space of tools. you’ve been here 5 minutes and already broke a prototype of mine, you’re bad luck, i simply won’t have you here!”