Science is Sexist

[Forty Two]

Going full retard, a feminist professor says that science is sexist because it promotes the notion that knowledge can be obtained through reason, which is a masculine concept. http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/22/are-s ... minist-pro

Also, command words like "will" and "must" are sexist.

The scientific method is inherently discriminatory against women and minorities.

This kind of thing bolsters a suspicion that I've had that progressive feminist thinking comes to many of its conclusions on the basis that there is no objective knowledge, and that reason is not the way to get to the truth and the truth is not necessarily the same for two different people. It helps explain why they tend to use someone's subjective feelings as the arbiter of the truth of given events or allegations. It helps explain why they are dismissive of the rights of an accused person to defend himself in court -- the "truth" in, say, a rape case, can't be found in a reasoned, objective analysis of the "facts." The truth is just a competition between the two people's feelings.

[Svartalf]

and some wonder why feminists have a bad reputation

[cronus]

Many ideas in science are male in origin and should be abandoned. Gravity, the speed of light and evolution. All gotta go. We need a year zero with science. And Trump might be the one to deliver it? Is he a secret feminist?

[Forty Two]

...wait wait....

That's not mainstream feminism... my friends don't think that and they say they're feminists, so this must just be one more radical, weird thing that nobody really believes....

... #notallfeminists

[Forty Two]

Many ideas in science are male in origin and should be abandoned. Gravity, the speed of light and evolution. All gotta go. We need a year zero with science. And Trump might be the one to deliver it? Is he a secret feminist?

Newton's Principia is a "rape manual" -- Harding, The Science Question in Feminism.

E=mc2 is a sexist equation, because it privileges the speed of light over other speeds....and science privileges the solid (male) over the liquid (female) in physics.... Luce Irigaray, feminist philosopher...

[Svartalf]

...wait wait....

That's not mainstream feminism... my friends don't think that and they say they're feminists, so this must just be one more radical, weird thing that nobody really believes....

... #notallfeminists

It's like with islam, the radicals stain all the movement, including the reasonable ones, whom we'll assume to be a majority.

[Forty Two]

We assume it, but if these ideas are, indeed, considered ridiculous in feminist circles, why do you see no pushback from feminists against them? They really don't - and they basically tend to rely on these experts -- professors, philosophers -- for the principles that drive the movement.

And, these principles do seem to drive the movement. Look at the similar language, as I pointed out, used in the discussion of rape allegations. Believe the "victim" (begs the question). Reality is what people feel it is, not verifiable based on ascertainable facts.

[pErvinalia]

...wait wait....

That's not mainstream feminism... my friends don't think that and they say they're feminists, so this must just be one more radical, weird thing that nobody really believes....

... #notallfeminists

I think it's pretty safe to say that most feminists aren't as fucking mental as this woman.

[cronus]

Feminists are like skittles. There's lots of feminine feminists who only want the respect and good manners they do deserve. But in amongst those countless skittles there's a few who'd quite literally cut your balls off if your a man and talk man things like science and politics. You see that is our feminist problem.

[Forty Two]

...wait wait....

That's not mainstream feminism... my friends don't think that and they say they're feminists, so this must just be one more radical, weird thing that nobody really believes....

... #notallfeminists

I think it's pretty safe to say that most feminists aren't as fucking mental as this woman.

Are you sure....?

[Forty Two]

Feminists are like skittles. There's lots of feminine feminists who only want the respect and good manners they do deserve.

Women in general already get far more built-in, automatic respect and good manners than men. If you treat a man rudely, it's one thing, but if you treat a woman rudely, it's considered a far more serious issue, culturally and legally. Rude treatment of a female can be sexual harassment, legally, depending on the circumstances. Culturally, rude treatment of a female is considered far worse than rude treatment of a male.

But in amongst those countless skittles there's a few who'd quite literally cut your balls off if your a man and talk man things like science and politics. You see that is our feminist problem.

The problem is that the wackos you refer to are the ones pressing the issues.

[rainbow]

...wait wait....

That's not mainstream feminism... my friends don't think that and they say they're feminists, so this must just be one more radical, weird thing that nobody really believes....

... #notallfeminists

I think it's pretty safe to say that most feminists aren't as fucking mental as this woman.

Are you sure....?

Yep.
As it's safe to say that you're not a typical old fart in a bucket.

[JimC]

Going full retard, a feminist professor says that science is sexist because it promotes the notion that knowledge can be obtained through reason, which is a masculine concept. http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/22/are-s ... minist-pro

Also, command words like "will" and "must" are sexist.

The scientific method is inherently discriminatory against women and minorities.

This kind of thing bolsters a suspicion that I've had that progressive feminist thinking comes to many of its conclusions on the basis that there is no objective knowledge, and that reason is not the way to get to the truth and the truth is not necessarily the same for two different people. It helps explain why they tend to use someone's subjective feelings as the arbiter of the truth of given events or allegations. It helps explain why they are dismissive of the rights of an accused person to defend himself in court -- the "truth" in, say, a rape case, can't be found in a reasoned, objective analysis of the "facts." The truth is just a competition between the two people's feelings.

These sort of absurdities are not confined to fringe feminism, they are rife through all the New Age bullshit.

[Brian Peacock]

...wait wait....

That's not mainstream feminism... my friends don't think that and they say they're feminists, so this must just be one more radical, weird thing that nobody really believes....

... #notallfeminists

I think it's pretty safe to say that most feminists aren't as fucking mental as this woman.

Ah, but now we've been told that this sort of stuff apparently 'drives the movement' we can't make that kind of qualification without being #notrealfeminists

[Svartalf]

then I'll discard the feminist tag, I'll just strive to be an equalist