Feminist: Term "Big Bang" Keeps Girls away from Science

National Review Online ^ | 3/22/05 | Christina Hoff Sommers

[finnman69]

Maureen Dowd and other radical feminists could use a Big Bang.

[rickmichaels]

"A lot of the style is very macho, and that can be off-putting to young women, and 'big bang' is just another little grain of sand in that big sandbox."

I'd like to ask her what would happen if Uranus was swallowed by a Black Hole.

[.38sw]

As she told a CNN interviewer, "A lot of the style is very macho, and that can be off-putting to young women, and 'big bang' is just another little grain of sand in that big sandbox."

Oh, my sweet lord. What a steaming pile. It's crap like this that makes me have to wrap duct tape around my head so that it doesn't explode. I'm a woman - my favorite classes in high school were my science classes. I graduated from college with a bachelor of science degree. Guess I'm just a macho chic. Oh, btw, I handle a revolver pretty well, also. Hope I don't start growing a beard now.

[Brilliant]

I've got it! Let's change it to "The Big Kafeeklatsch."

[Atlas Sneezed]

The Big Orgasm?

[longtermmemmory]

It was big.
It was a bang.
It was a big bang.

Utter BS. Next this loony will object to the word "seminar".

[longtermmemmory]

There is no pink hummer vehicle.

SUV's do not sell like hotcakes because they are sissy cars.

[Tax-chick]

Even though it is his turn and he should know that without being told — he should be subliminally listening for the baby's cry and leap out of bed the moment he hears it — he is not a monster — either to himself or to the baby's mother — if he does none of those things but mumbles that he is too tired.

Heh heh! Elbow him firmly and yell, "I hear your cell phone ringing!" "No, wait, I was dreaming ... but while you're up, change the baby and bring him over here ..."

[ken21]

"...the overreaction Nancy Hopkins, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology biologist and feminist activist who says she almost became physically ill."

someone should have administered smelling salts to this lady and then called a horse and carriage to take her home.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Do you want somebody who can't handle "Big Bang" handling a nuclear power plant?

[MortMan]

Perhaps they could call it the "Anti-Lewinsky" instead.

[raybbr]

Has Megan Urry ever experienced a "big bang"? If not then how would she know that it is not masculine?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Perhaps she would be happier if the theory was amended to included 45 minutes of foreplay.

[L98Fiero]

I'm sure she will be asked to resign for suggesting such things about women.

/sarc

[frithguild]

Here is how to describe the Big Bang:

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

[raybbr]

Urry said the lack of women in the field of physics is a serious problem for academia and gender equality.

"I think there are barriers to women that are do not exist for men, although most of the overt ones are gone," she said.

She cited long hours and the demands of the work as two of the factors that discourage women who want to have families from pursuing the profession.

From this article in the Yale Daily News.

This "woman" has a chip on her shoulder. I wonder if it's made of silicon or silicone?

[Caesar Soze]

That's entirely possible. Also, "Big Crunch" sounds like a candy bar, and "Big Rip" sounds like a fart joke.

[Gefreiter]

Check your "Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy" for mention of the "best bang since the big one".

[Semper Paratus]

If the "Big Bank" was reversed it would be the "Big Suck".