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To: RogerFGay
This is a weak article; it would help if the author discussed some of the evidence/effects of the "male science" bigotry that he claims.

Nevertheless, men utterly dominate the pinnacles of analytical achievement.

Ironically, he implicitly falls into an inaccurate cliche, i.e., men dominate the highest levels of analytical fields only. There are no female Van Goghs, Picassos or Vermeers; no Beethovens or Bachs; no Tolstois or Balzacs; and, as a friend of mine would say monotonously but effectively in any argument of this sort, all the best chefs are men. In the realm of outstanding achievement, men are better than women at everything, with scant exceptions.

32 posted on 09/24/2002 6:15:09 AM PDT by monkey
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To: monkey
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Rejecting "Male Science", monkey wrote: This is a weak article; it would help if the author discussed some of the evidence/effects of the "male science" bigotry that he claims.

Agreed. There are indeed feminists who argue that reductive science is characteristically masculine and 'bad'. Sandra Harding is the best known of these. And Harding is taught in Women's Studies courses around the country, as are various other wacko theories such as "Einstein stole relativity from his first wife', 'Watson and Crick stole the Double Helix from Rosalind Franklin', etc. The gist is that logic and scientific deduction are 'male' ways of knowing, and that the men who were really good at science stole their ideas from women. Yeah, bit of a contradiction there, but remember, logic is patriarchal!

50 posted on 09/24/2002 10:09:31 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: monkey
In the realm of outstanding achievement, men are better than women at everything, with scant exceptions.

Try 9 months of pregnancy, 47 hours of labor, giving birth, and breast feeding you ingrate! If your life could be done all over again, you can change your own diapers.
78 posted on 09/24/2002 1:03:30 PM PDT by RogerFGay
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