Saturday, November 15, 2014

One small step for man, one giant step for female pettiness

It's like the worst sexist stereotype you can imagine: a brilliant scientific achievement and all the women can talk about is what people are wearing. Glenn Reynolds ruthlessly mocks the gender hysterics at the link. Fun fun fun! Try this:

It seems to me that if you care about women in STEM, maybe you shouldn't want to communicate the notion that they're so delicate that they can't handle pictures of comic-book women. Will we stock our Mars spacecraft with fainting couches?

Or this:

As Chloe Price observed: "Imagine the ... storm if the scientist had been a woman and everyone focused solely on her clothes and not her achievements."

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