Re:Female scientists mock Nobel laureate with photos
by snowwrestler on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:46PM
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The essential reason his original comment was sexist was that the only way it makes sense is if one assumes the default state of a lab is men only.
Basically, if your thought process is that women are an optional addition to a fairly normal human activity (scientific research in this case), you're going to be accused of bias. I mean, people said almost exactly the same things about women in offices, women in factories, women in the military, gays in the military, gays in the NFL, etc.
Basically, if your thought process is that women are an optional addition to a fairly normal human activity (scientific research in this case), you're going to be accused of bias. I mean, people said almost exactly the same things about women in offices, women in factories, women in the military, gays in the military, gays in the NFL, etc.
edit: clarity