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The women of Popular Science are not working today - Here's Why
Popular Science ^ | 3/8/2017 | Popular Science Staff

Posted on 03/09/2017 1:00:17 PM PST by Buffalo Bob

You may notice that our website is looking a little light today. We’d like to explain. Today is "A Day Without a Woman," a general strike for women's rights and equality—so many of the women of PopSci aren't working.

And that means the website is going to be pretty quiet: While we get an awful lot of emails assuming we're a bunch of "sirs," the majority of the staff here is female.

(Excerpt) Read more at popsci.com ...


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1 posted on 03/09/2017 1:00:17 PM PST by Buffalo Bob
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To: Buffalo Bob

Do not care. I hope the entire enterprise of snowflakes dies.


2 posted on 03/09/2017 1:02:29 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Buffalo Bob

I read Pop Science in Doctor’s office etc. So I cannot cancel a subscription.


3 posted on 03/09/2017 1:03:47 PM PST by honurider (no one is more indoctrinated then the indoctrinator)
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To: Buffalo Bob

How many days can you go without subscribers?


4 posted on 03/09/2017 1:03:49 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Buffalo Bob

Another American institution that has long ago flushed itself into irrelevance


5 posted on 03/09/2017 1:03:56 PM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Buffalo Bob

Where I work the women showed up and earned their pay. Everything went smoothly.

It was a day without idiots.


6 posted on 03/09/2017 1:04:15 PM PST by budj (beam me up, scotty...)
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To: Buffalo Bob
...the majority of the staff here is female...

That explains a lot.
7 posted on 03/09/2017 1:04:49 PM PST by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: Buffalo Bob
the majority of the staff here is female

Be interesting to track the gender ratio of the staff vs the quality of the publication over its history.
8 posted on 03/09/2017 1:04:57 PM PST by chrisser
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To: Buffalo Bob

Lol.
Someone had to actively set up the site like that.
The presence of lack thereof of a handful of people doesn’t impact how a website looks unless someone sets it up, makes changes, etc.


9 posted on 03/09/2017 1:05:03 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Buffalo Bob

Popular Socialist Female Mechanics
10 posted on 03/09/2017 1:06:21 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Buffalo Bob

If a tree falls in a forest...


11 posted on 03/09/2017 1:07:58 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Buffalo Bob

Popular Science is where I first saw the word “LASER,” and where I learned that a spherical shell gets stronger as the pressure on it increases.

Both back in the early ‘60s, before the assassination of JFK.

Since then, have read it a time or two in the library. PC drivel, like Scientific American.

Good bye “Wordless Workshop.”

Good bye ads from the Rosicrucians.


12 posted on 03/09/2017 1:09:07 PM PST by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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“While we get an awful lot of emails assuming we’re a bunch of “sirs,” the majority of the staff here is female.”

Explains why it is the Real Simple of science publications now.


13 posted on 03/09/2017 1:10:57 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: Buffalo Bob
Wow. Really?

Anyone notice - or even have a subscription to begin with?

14 posted on 03/09/2017 1:11:08 PM PST by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: Buffalo Bob
Ummm...OK...


15 posted on 03/09/2017 1:11:44 PM PST by polymuser (There's a yuuuge basket of deportables.)
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To: Buffalo Bob

Maybe the women should be fired or demoted for being unreliable. Clearly they can’t work or won’t do the job. I am sure that there is a man that would be happy to do the job.


16 posted on 03/09/2017 1:13:51 PM PST by dhs12345
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HERE'S WHY: Because the boss gave them a day off and many are them are not stupid. Paid vacation means you do not come in to work.
17 posted on 03/09/2017 1:14:08 PM PST by fireforeffect (A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
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To: chrisser
I got a subscription, as a gift. Maintained it for a few years.

It was good when I first started out. Then a few years ago, overnight, it started preaching Climate Change. Every article in it was a lecture about how the world was going to end, and it was my personally my fault.

Must've been a new editor. I stopped renewing, haven't bothered looking at it since.

18 posted on 03/09/2017 1:14:31 PM PST by wbill
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To: Buffalo Bob

Popular Science went activist years ago and lost most of their readers.

Science should be agnostic to politics.


19 posted on 03/09/2017 1:16:29 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: Buffalo Bob

People are so stupid. They fall for all these commie celebrations. Earth Day. Women’s Day. May Day. Arbor Day. etc etc etc. They ALWAYS fall for them. You will not find a more apt definition of “useful idiot” than this.


20 posted on 03/09/2017 1:18:47 PM PST by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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