tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post4875823645806610979..comments2024-03-22T05:17:53.112-04:00Comments on Big Bad Bald Bastard: A Woman's Place is in the Laboratory, or the Field, or the ClassroomBig Bad Bald Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-68033518848940023572017-02-12T17:08:47.262-05:002017-02-12T17:08:47.262-05:00back in the 1960s i was acquainted with a young wo...<i>back in the 1960s i was acquainted with a young woman who was a math major at MIT - one time she got a B in a course, and when she asked the professor about it, he said, "i don't give girls As - they just get married and have babies and waste their education"</i><br /><br />These assholes want to return to an age in which the deck was stacked even more against women and minorities. John Scalzi's <a href="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/" rel="nofollow">lowest difficulty setting</a> essay is required reading.<br /><br /><i>It's actually pretty satisfying how many physicists, astronomers, consmologists and planetary research scientists are women these days.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://jannalevin.com/" rel="nofollow">Janna Levin</a> presented two lectures, but that was before I started blogging. My one big regret is not having started blogging in 2006, when the SSC started.<br /><br />Big Bad Bald Bastardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01983025559556548658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-37309582659098823332017-02-12T13:59:05.100-05:002017-02-12T13:59:05.100-05:00Let me add Sabine Hossenfelder, a brilliant physic...Let me add Sabine Hossenfelder, a brilliant physicist and mathematician in the mold of Peter Woit. She writes at Backreaction and often contributes pieces to Starts with a Bang, Symmetry Breaking and other physics blogs.<br /><br />And Michelle Thaller is a research astronomer at Goddard and a GREAT follow on the Twitter machine.<br /><br />There's Amy Maainzer and Laura Danly and so many others.<br /><br />It's actually pretty satisfying how many physicists, astronomers, consmologists and planetary research scientists are women these days.mikeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13057701313718589322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-41700087870519906002017-02-12T07:06:21.443-05:002017-02-12T07:06:21.443-05:00i meant to say "LIVE it or LIVE WITH it"...i meant to say "LIVE it or LIVE WITH it" - the saying originated with the Firesign Theatre, although i have added the third alternativemistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8526498499129692237.post-14452576002570631652017-02-12T07:03:47.454-05:002017-02-12T07:03:47.454-05:00this is a true story
back in the 1960s i was acqu...this is a true story<br /><br />back in the 1960s i was acquainted with a young woman who was a math major at MIT - one time she got a B in a course, and when she asked the professor about it, he said, "i don't give girls As - they just get married and have babies and waste their education"<br /><br />so far as i know, she did not pursue a formal complaint, despite being urged by her friends to do so<br /><br />i wonder what happened to her afterwards <br /><br />such a thing could never happen nowadays, of course, since sexism, like racism, has vanished into the mists of history<br /><br />that last comment is snark, of course - what would have been called "sarcasm" in the mid-20th century america which was my homeland and to which i can never return<br /><br />still, THIS is the future - you got to LIVE it, or LIVE with it, and eventually, at a time TBD, get out of the way<br /><br />may the Creative Forces of the Universe have mercy on our souls, if any<br /><br /><br />mistah charley, ph.d.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06303695341246058680noreply@blogger.com