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by OSButler
4233 days ago
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His shirt is the kind of thing that keeps women away from science? This all started with s.o. being offended by it while watching the original interview, but how can you come to such a conclusion based on that?
Did the female student's lecture attendance/signup rate plummet since that interview?
Is there any kind of imperial evidence that this person's shirt is making female students turn away from science? I honestly don't understand how it's even possible to get to that conclusion. If there's s.o. interested in a specific field and (s)he witnesses a major scientific breakthrough, then the last thing on your mind would be '...but how could the person be wearing that?'. If you're offended by it, then ask why this happened in the first place, because maybe there's an actual good explanation behind it. For me it's in the same category as people saying they don't want anything to do with computers because Turing was gay - how does one thing have anything to do with the other? |
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I don't think anyone can prove it right now, only find it plausible or probable. Of course that's a long way from proof, but the opposite is also true - can you demonstrate that this shirt, in the context of a wider trend of what people can and do wear, does not affect the number of women in science?
> Did the female student's lecture attendance/signup rate plummet since that interview?
This is disingenuous, I'm sure you know that no criticism of the shirt is because this specific, individual incident would be perceived to be of overwhelming importance for any given statistic, and I think your attempt to portray things this way is a strawman or a horrible misunderstanding. As above, it is the example of wearing this shirt in the context of wider trends in what people do (and wear) that people are criticising. You can still disagree with them, but at least disagree on a point you didn't just make up.