Posted on 08/15/2016 12:30:53 PM PDT by C19fan
Did you know there is an International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry? Neither did I, but of course it exists, for there really is no crazy identity politics “intersection” that doesn’t have its own journal read by dozens.
The IJPC recently offered up a two-part article on “Gender in the Substance of Chemistry,” by Agnes Kovacs, who you will be unsurprised to learn is a professor of gender studies at Central European University in Hungary.
Part 1 considers “the ideal gas,” which will certainly prompt a number of obvious suggestions from our regular commenters:
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That was a good flick, especially when she turned one of the kids’ nasty, bullying brother into a humanoid frog that turned around and ate a flyn
This proves that chemistry isn’t an exact science!
I once saw a very old college chemistry book for women. It was about the chemistry of washing, the chemistry of baking, the chemistry of cooking....
Maybe she wants these back!!!
(Actually the food section reminded me of On Food and Cooking, by Harold McGee, which is a great book!)
Now pull my finger.
...culminating with some suggested new equations that would be more compatible with feminism, one supposes, though someone more current in math and chemistry would have to tell me.
There actually is such a thing as feminist math. Try to imagine something as limpid and pure as a mathematical equation perceived through a crude ideological filter. It's as ugly as you're thinking. Uglier.
If it weren’t for well funded colleges where would there ‘smart’ people ever be employed???
Feminist Chemistry
Ebonic English
Gay Physics
Transgendered Mechanical Engineering
Liberal female = super mega crazy bitchy.
Feminism is a variant of collectivism. Collectivism is an assault on reason and its role in human life. All varieties of collectivism deny the free will and rationality of the individual and attribute his ideas, character, and vital interests to his membership in a collective. Because they view ideas as determined by group membership, collectivist doctrines deny the very possibility of knowledge. Their further effect is the creation of conflict between members of different groups. And finally, when collectivism becomes the guiding political principle of a country, the results are an unmitigated disaster, ranging from impoverishment to mass murder.
And just why would anyone at all do that?
The first one is not too bad.
I don’t see anything particularly wrong with it; it just seems to be a long-winded acknowledgment that actual gases don’t follow the Ideal Gas Law, but come somewhat close.
I think it’s all a lot of students can do to get pV = nRT. Going to p = RTZ/V_m is something I didn’t encounter even in collegiate General Chemistry. The next 4 equations get even hairier.
The second one is more philosophy than chemistry.
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