feuervogel: photo of the statue of Victory and her chariot on the Brandenburg Gate (marxist feminist dialectic)
feuervogel ([personal profile] feuervogel) wrote 2010-06-12 09:57 am (UTC)

On that single point, perhaps, but that does not invalidate her entire argument, which is that Tierney is cherry-picking data that supports the idea that menz is better than wimminz at teh scientisms because of their inherent biology/brain power.

Which is, of course, a load of horseshit. Are there more men than women in science, especially academic science? No doubt. But it's not because of biological differences. It's more likely a result of the rigid gender norms in US society that say girls don't belong in science, and those damn "math is hard" Barbies that are a product of this norm.

Though on that point, we're likely in violent agreement.

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