Female thinking seems to be more lateral then vertical. By that I mean, women in physics are generally harder working than male colleagues and are great co-workers in terms of encouragement, diligence, and backup support. They do not, however, contribute a great deal of original ideas and rigorous logical analysis to the research. Female judgment seems to more emotionally biased.I totally had a reply to this but then I lost it in a surge of hormones. Oh, yeah, it was this: you FUCKWIT.
Fuckwit #2, Clay Malinak, opines that it's a real problem that we focus so much on, you know, this harassment stuff, because it makes it so hard for a senior prof to have a "normal working relationship with a younger colleague of the opposite sex." Also crying because he was not the "in crowd" when in a fem-heavy lab. Maybe if you weren't staring down their shirts the whole time it would be easier, hmmm?
I would go all Physioprof on their asses, but I don't want to do the whole registration crappo. Also they're clearly both bitter because they never got good jobs, so it's hard to feel real threatened by either of them. But if any of you want to take up this cause, good on you.
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Unfortunately, the comment you cite is rather common in physics. I got it quite a few times. Other people who may be hard working, but cannot provide original ideas are Asians, btw.
they're clearly both bitter because they never got good jobs
This is typical of the misogynist douchcornet fucknozzles who complain about women in science. They know in their heart of hearts that they probably would have gotten a decent job in science if only women were still completely excluded. But now that the playing field is moving in the direction of getting more level, they can no longer compete against competent women.
So they sit there in their shitty jobs bitterly hating the more competent women who successfully competed for the jobs they can no longer have.
If this is Paul Kantorek and not someone impersonating him or using the literary character as a pseudonym, you might want to contact the department that employs him:
http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/people/Kantorek.html
There's also a women's engineering group at Ryerson that might be interested:
http://www.discoverengineering.ryerson.ca/ContactUs/ContactUs.html
yeah.
did you see those people from West Virginia on the Daily Show talking about why they didn't want to vote for Obama?
gotta love the -isms.
physioprof makes an interesting point we tend to forget, though, which is that it's always easier to blame your job problems on the subset of competitors that is newest.
"if only we hadn't let them in here" is probably a normal psychological response in times of limited resources, right?
just think how you'd feel if you were trapped somewhere with very little food. you'd resent everyone, but it's even easier to rationalize if you can blame your situation on a particular category of people and just take them all out by making some rules to justify blaming them.
so they make up these rules about why women should be kicked out.
I used to play with the boys who lived next door when I was little, and it was always fine until we had too many people. Then it was easiest for them to ask me to leave so they could include the other boys. I understood, actually, and never took it personally, which is probably why it took me such a long time to realize I was experiencing sexism even when it was really blatant.
Anyway I'm sure this is some kind of group preservation instinct, but that's a question for a different kind of scientist.
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