I can't wait to see women competing men in olympics.

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this is just laughable.

Another step in their regime to take over; too bad they don't have the capacity for such a thing directly so they work through indoctrination. It's up to us educated about them and other people against feminism to stop it, between this and the facebook nonbinary genders, tumblr sjws are getting their way and it's a bit scary.

I fucking weep for any country that actually takes this shit on board. What a waste of time and energy. Feminism needs to die already, looks like this sick, perverted ideology is not going to down without a fight. They're probably getting scared as more and more people, men and women alike, are beginning to boycott feminism.

As a current student, I just don't want you guys judging UW on this. We're a large ass school and with that comes compartmentalization and non-heriarchical oversight (e.g.: deans of specific programs don't really report to anyone, each college within the university does whatever the fuck they want.) This is not indicative of the quality of our school, but instead represents a small sector in the college of letters and science that wants to feel like they're doing something sociopolitically relevant. Our engineering and hard science fields are all laughing at this.

I'm not actually surprised.

I was raised as a flaming left-winger in a rightwing community. And I embraced it at first, because I despise smug, underthinking self-assuredness, and I was constantly being exposed to the rightwing variety of it.

But there was a moment that I realized communism was crap. That moment happened when I was reading the story of a Chinese dissident who had eventually been diagnosed by their state health system with a mental disorder. There was apparently a note in his chart, put there by some psychiatrist, that he had "failed to adjust to Socialist reality".

Not "reality".

Socialist reality.

The moment when you think the universe shares your prescriptive ideology, or needs to... you fail forever. The universe doesn't care about "should". The universe just is.

Combining a social movement with hard science? What a "good" idea. Why haven't we thought of this before? There is no way any biases will occur and everyone will totally take their findings seriously...

Wittig was, of course a Jewess and isn't German at all. The other names seem rather Jewish as well.

It's pretty much like regular biology, only a lot more unhappy and with extra cats.

Interesting. The last place I'm used to running into feminists is in the hard sciences. Honestly though, as a chemist I would be completely fascinated to watch someone TRY to integrate feminism into chemistry. Really, what could someone possibly hope to achieve? Too much chemistry named for men - clearly meant to keep women down. Major reactions named for male discovers should be renamed in hopes of not further discouraging female scientists. ... and now I'm worried.

Calling her a "biologist" makes this seem a bit curious, indeed. It would be more correct to state that she's an anthropologist studying female hominids. I don't see how approaching science with a predetermined ideology helps in the process, but I can see how revisiting anthropological results is useful. The field is quite old and relies too heavily on speculation, in the past even more so than today.

Taking a different approach may actually give some interesting new hypotheses and interpretations of findings. Remember, science is peer reviewed. She's not going to go off on some limb and claim batshit crazy things and then get them published. It's a safe bet that anything which does get published as actual, scientific merit.

can someone explain to me how feminism isn't sexism?

Look up C+=

gender bias in traditional biology

Here is what I do not completely understand. Bias is to give something preferential treatment over the other something. In biology males and females are treated differently because they are, wait for it, different. Why do they want to counteract the beautiful difference in men and women, I sure as hell do not want to be skirt chasing some guy, do these feminists want to be pursued by a land whale?

Biology is science, not opinion... You can't just go oh I think this because of my option on an irrelevant subject. No biology is a science, it is how it is, and your views don't change it.

Holy. shit.

I thought this was a joke when I read this article. This is the type of material you would read on The Onion.

This is probably the vaguest thing I've ever read because even after reading the article, I don't really understand what "feminist biology" even is. Investigating the evolution of the pelvic region of human ancestors to understand how child rearing may have progressed over time? That's science, and that's fine. I don't understand why feminism needs to be brought into it.

Eliminating the gender bias in biology? As a biochemist, I wasn't aware such a bias existed. In fact, there is federal infrastructure that is designed specifically to address bias in awarding grant money. For example, based on race or gender. Another objective of such programs is to figure out how to incorporate more research from these underrepresented groups.

Frankly, this is insulting to women who are in scientific fields.

Approaching science with a Feminist viewpoint

If you're approaching science with any viewpoint, you're doing it wrong from the get-go. Science dispassionately looks at the data and draws conclusions from observable facts. That's it.

Trying to prove pre-concieved ideas by "interpreting" facts is as far away from science as you can get. They'll fit in well with the Creationists trying to prove that the Earth is 6,000 years old.

Back in college I remember my friends and I would always joke about how this totally would become a thing. And I guess... it will.

I think that this will finally be the moment where intellectuals / academia just finally go ahead and admit that there is no such thing as objectivity / objective knowledge is no longer the ideal for academic pursuits. Hell, I was a liberal arts kid and my classes were more objective than this horseshit.

In a perfect world, this is the moment where universities kick back against the bullshit agendas they've been pushing for the last twenty years. In some reality out there, the Harvard board of trustees is calling up Larry Summers and apologizing for booting him because he commented on a controversial, but highly interesting and (in my understanding) well done study that produced results that feminists didn't want to hear.

This is more moronic than evolution. Theology and biblical literature is at least interesting; I know a creationist, like an honest to god the world is 4000 years young type of moron, and he never fails to entertain. At worst, his ideas are solid scifi / fantasy plotlines, and much of his religion is quite RP. It is rooted in more reality than this idea of "feminist biology". And at least this guy has the intellectual honesty to just say it - "I don't believe in science." Just say it, why the charade?

"I want to spend grad school learning about the extension of what I studied in undergrad (the easiest mandatory science / math classes, with gender studies, women's lit, soft psychology courses, and philosophy electives). But of course, I don't want this to be considered by everyone to be a massive waste of time and money. So please name it something legit and start a social movement about it. Make it sound science-y, so we are more employable, but please no real science, nobody got time for that!"

Unfucking believeable. "Thought crime"

Reminds me of Creationism. Unhappy that science doesn't support your point of view? Create your own science! Goodbye objectivity!

"Feminist physics"
"Feminist chemistry"
"Feminist medicine"

Here's my uneducated biological opinion: feminism is the leukemia of the society. It's unapologetically destructive, spreads everywhere with the final result being killing the organism as a whole and consequently self destruction.

Looking at science through a feminist lens

So she literally says she wants to put an ideological spin on a practice of facts and evidence. How could anyone smart enough to put those words together be stupid enough to say them?

I'm just going to chime in on this because I have a little bit of insight. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at a university.

1) This isn't a degree granting program. A postdoc is a job. This is a postdoctoral fellowship and will fund one postdoc. The financial commitment will be between $150,000-$250,000 over three years. Given the funding source, it may be even less than this, and supplemented with funding from other sources.

2) The typical time a postdoc will spend in such a program is about 3 years. Postdoc contracts are generally given in 1 year increments.

3) This isn't an academic program, this will fund one person's existing research in biology. The specific research here will focus on female biology. If there's a feminist angle, it will be something like, "Women were as tall and strong as men, but their domestic social role caused these changes."

4) Everyone's always looking for more sources of funding. If a women's studies department offered me funding, I'd take it.

5) The postdoc in question probably will not start to adopt questionable research methods at this point in her career. She has nothing to gain from that. She'll still be doing bio.

I'm all for the Red Pill bit, but you guys are misunderstanding what this is.

"A man discovered how mitochondria work. But that man was probably a sexist shitlord. If he were a feminist he would have let a woman discover it."

That's how I'm imagining this...

The cathedral is completely delusional. What won't they try.

This is just inexplicably stupid

This is why ETs won't contact us.

Math has for to long oppressed women by being hard to do in my opinion.

Laughed out loud on that one.

I have no words to even expressed how stupid feminist biology is. I can only shake my head in disgust.

Burn it to the ground.

...They're actually calling it feminist biology. Mother of god.

Christmas came early boys.

-Christian science

-Chinese medicine

-Feminist biology

Wait. They aim to fight gender bias in biology by adding a gender bias to the study of biology? This can't be a real thing.

Just think. When Hildog becomes president, this will be a mandatory department in all public universities. No such thing as separation between the Cathedral and State.

It's difficult to find words to express just how ridiculous this is, shit like this is what will truly cause the decline of Western civilisation.

"there are certain assumptions about men, women, objectivity and knowledge that influence how science is often done"

Science is using the fucking science method and has nothing to do with that!

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I view myself as an Alpha male and pro-man, but let me try to share an opposing view.

What if it's true that historically men have given women a bad wrap in psychological/biological science? If that's the case, then what these women are trying to do will help bring truth to the science. It would in effect clear up the bad science and help us understand our world a little better.

With that said, I've not read the article, nor read the science. The truth is in the details.

I feel like I have to pipe in and water down the woman bashing just a bit. It's too early to see if this truly is as sinister as you purport.

my.head.just.exploded. im now as dumb as these idiots.

They have been doing this for a while now, the work in a group. Look at github (iirc) they are making feminist friendly software or something. I don't even want to know what it means.

They changed the word women to womyn, because they didn't want anything to do with men.

They work together and rewrite history. They organize mass wikipedia edits in order to write what women have contributed. There are now paragraphs and paragraphs of nothing but self praise with generally dodgy source links.

What surprises me (maybe i admire) is that they are united in this. They work like a unit. While men will fight among themselves, or won't look at these problems because they have more important things to do.

This will continue for some time until it hits a tipping point, then some men will snap and reclaim everything and women's position will go back to square one, either that or a calamity. That usually puts the gender roles in place.

Yes what feminist are doing is a dirty practice, but that's what they have been doing for a long time. How insecure and unsatisfied do you have to be with yourself that you need to rewrite solid science to meet your views.

I am not angry, nor concerned, nor jelly. I am going to grab my popcorn, do what I always do,instead of changing others i improve myself. They are going on a path of destruction. This just accelerated it.

The problem is that biology has already been biased by the notoriously sexist male-dominated academic institutions. Hopefully these feminists aren't replacing it with more bias, but I do think that there have been scientific errors made because of sexism in the past (and possibly continuing).

I worry that this kind of thing will catch on. Feminist zeal generally seems to be accepted as a politically correct standpoint, especially among politians seeking public favor. There are enough problems faced by the scientific endeavour of the human race without another dark age of scientific repression.

The wikipedia rewrites died (I think), but how many attempts will feminists make before it catches on?

Feminism crusades againts men, not for equality. Just look at the "teach men not to rape" campaign. Do you think that it will stop there if they gain a foothold in scientific research?

Much like France during the industrial era, imagine having to run a new invention or theory past a feminist board for approval before release?

Would it be viable for them to villify a gender based on junk science and decree men all need to be chemically neutered to 'protect women'? Psychological indoctrination into feminist concepts from the earliest age? - It seems a stretch but more sinister concepts have taken root throughout history without political or main stream backing.

There are plenty of 'research teams' that will hand out skewed test results and shonky studies to pharmaceutical companies for money. With feminisim fitting the bill this will be no different. They will be able to say what they want, and pretend it's fact. And with feminism considered 'PC' they will not want for budget.

I hope that with the more outlandish statements made by feminist activists every day, people will begin to back away from it as it visibly shows itself as the hate group that it is.

Richard Dawkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1pJ8vYxL3Q

Newton's Principia is a rape manual.

Solid mechanics is privileged over fluid mechanics. bc men get solids.

"e=Mc^2 is a sexed equation" bc privilege

University of Wisconsin has just lost its reputation

What is lysenkoism?