I'm a female engineer in my early 30s and I'm very interested in this stuff, to offer a counter-example.

I'd be interested in paying a physicist to explain the Scharnhorst effect (predicted travel of photons very slightly faster than c between Casimir plates), and the implications for whether c is a core constant. I can't find much written about this - some papers were published about it in creditable journals iirc, it just hasn't gotten much attention for whatever reason.

Something about Hossenfelder rubs me the wrong way though.