Yep, still waiting for the chorus of enraged ‘egalitarian’ voices to protest this (continuing) oversight.
http://tehbewilderness.tumblr.com/post/155051414744/the-future-now-vera-rubin-the-woman-who
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Yep, still waiting for the chorus of enraged ‘egalitarian’ voices to protest this (continuing) oversight.
http://tehbewilderness.tumblr.com/post/155051414744/the-future-now-vera-rubin-the-woman-who
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January 7, 2017 at 7:20 am
roughseasinthemed
Women do warm cuddly peace stuff. Men do clever science and writing. Didn’t you know?
Also, being a woman means make-up, high heels, frocks, handbags and pink. I read this only the other day so it must be true. Not science. Womenz needz to do girly stuff. Apparently.
I wonder when this crap is ever going to stop? Not in my lifetime, sadly :(
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January 7, 2017 at 8:00 am
john zande
Astonishing woman. One would like to think she was met after death by Cecilia Payne… and they got drunk together.
On a lighter note, was just sent this. As the owner of a house with 7 cats who appear to be in one giant, perpetual pissing contest, it made me laugh
http://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com.br/2015/10/a-medieval-manuscript-that-was-peed-on.html
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January 7, 2017 at 9:05 am
The Arbourist
@JZ
Cats, irreverent then, and now. :)
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January 7, 2017 at 10:23 am
syrbal-labrys
What we need is feminist cats trained to piss on men’s work only? We all know it wouldn’t take much training….
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January 7, 2017 at 10:32 am
john zande
A history of being assholes ;)
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January 7, 2017 at 10:45 am
Godless Cranium
It’s likely because it is an unverified theory. The people who hypothesized the existence of the Higgs did so in 1960 and waited till 2013 to be recognized because it was unverified.
In any given year, there are usually several people deserving of the prize but only one can get it. Not everyone will agree on who will get it.
No need for an outcry of egalitarian voices on this one.
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January 7, 2017 at 11:04 am
The Arbourist
@JZ
Absolutely. :)
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January 7, 2017 at 10:41 pm
Bernie Orbust
I don’t think this is sexism. I think this is elitism. (Which certainly includes sexism.) Upper echelon clique groupthink.
What do I base this on? The person who first discovered dark matter in the 1930s: Fritz Zwicky. He also hypothesized that supernovas were caused by giant stars collapsing into neutron stars – just one year after the discovery of the neutron. Neutron stars weren’t discovered until 30 years later. Zwicky died in 1974. He wasn’t given credit. He was an outsider.
Alfred Wegener discovered continental drift. Had compelling evidence. It was some strange kind of discrimination. Perhaps because he was originally a meteorologist. It was anathema for geologists to even think about continental drift right up to the discovery of mid-ocean rifts.
Then there was Van Gogh. An outsider not accepted into the club until sometime after his death. Now his paintings are trinkets for alpha male barbarians – likely most appreciated for leveraging top-shelf pussy.
My take on Vera Rubin: she did what many astrophysicists would’ve thought a waste of time: measure the rotational speeds of the stars in a galaxy as a function of their distance from the center. Astrophysicists already ‘knew’ the answer: the curve would follow Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. The further out the stars, the lower their angular velocities. (Like Neptune travels slower than Mercury. A comet gains speed falling in towards the Sun. Slows on its way back out in its narrowly elliptical orbit.)
Rubin was a good scientist in that she knew you never take anything for granted. Again I think there is, what I would call, political corruption involved. People are in a highly competitive field. All reaching for the brass ring. They don’t want to waste their time – and career – going down an obviously stupid path.
Of course, Rubin proved them wrong. Her measurements showed that the angular velocities of stars remain constant despite their distance from the center. What this really means is that galaxies exist in the center of massive dark matter stars: matter that doesn’t interact electromagnetically – or with the strong and weak nuclear forces. (At their cores: massive black holes!)
So Rubin was not a member of the clique. Like Zwicky. And like Van Gogh, their genius over the heads of establishment incompetents.
It’s a strange clique for sure. Not a lot of sense to it. For example, the development of the Big Bang model of the universe predicted that the universe was once very tiny – and therefore very hot. Astrophysicists figured out that when the universe cooled down to around 3,000 K there was a process called photon decoupling – or, ‘let there be light.’ So this light should be shining at us from all directions but red shifted down to the microwave frequency because the OU is expanding: what is called the Cosmic Background Radiation. (A 3,000 K to 2.7 K redshift: 2.7 C above absolute zero.)
So as astrophysicists began to think about ways they could track down this the radiation, a couple of electronic engineers, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson, stumbled upon it while testing an antenna in 1964. They received their Nobel prize 14 years later.
Ruben’s discovery was the result of good scientific thinking and research and produced even more profound and disturbing outcome. Because scientists have no idea what dark matter is. They only know what it isn’t: everything (all the fundamental particles) they know about.
Looks like Nobel laureate Richard Feynman – who was an antiauthoritarian egalitarian of some varietal – was right when he said there doesn’t appear to be much sense in the way that they hand out Nobel prizes.
Rosalind Franklin also got hosed. It was her research in x-ray crystallography that unveiled the double helix structure of DNA. Without this research, Watson, Crick and Wilkins would not of gotten anywhere with their models. (Watson was a pig who bullied and harassed Franklin – in the lab and posthumously in his thin 1968 popular book, ‘The Double Helix.’)
An egalitarian take all this: it’s all a bunch of bullshit. The truth has a much more interesting tale to tell. It will long outlast petty corrupt barbarian politics and status symbols.
Barbarians can fool themselves – but they can’t fool the universe. (This a creative paraphrasing of Feynman’s take on why the Challenger space shuttle exploded – the O ring failure he demonstrated before a committee using a sample and a cup of ice water..) Will they ever learn?
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January 8, 2017 at 3:29 pm
Meg
@Arborist, this is exactly what I was trying to tell you about that Bernie Bros are all about classism for their own bottom line. Their viewpoint strictly revolves around disadvantaged men. Gee, I can’t imagine what it feels like to view alpha males as the only threat when ALL males have posed a threat to women regardless of income level.
In fact, that long winded ten paragraphs is in itself an act of barbarism and erasure on women and women’s experiences and contributions in science. Women have long been excluded from science and technology. Even geek and nerd culture is violently misogynistic as we’ve seen with the GamerGate movement. That wasn’t even really a movement, more like a witch hunt. Women’s involvement in science and technology continue to be ignored or downplayed, and the only thing your male supremacist commenters have to say about Vera Rubin is little more than “eh, fuck her. Men have it just as bad.” That’s not actually true but since when did they ever give a shit about the other half of the human population?
One would think that these guys who presume to be experts on social inequality would at least Google “women left out of science” before making themselves look like fools but whatever. There’s a wealth of information about sexism in science that men have at their disposal, oh but if only they would give a shit long enough to take the entire two seconds to access it. Here are but three pages out of six million talking about it:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/study-shows-gender-bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/
IMO responses to your post prove that egalitarianism is little more than men’s version of gender equality, which isn’t actually equal. It’s men presuming to define for women what is sexism and what is not and to hell with women’s actual experiences or opinion. We’re just supposed to sit down, shut up, and listen to them because by god they are MEN and men know everything. Amirite? If we have a problem with it or have the audacity to speak our minds then commence the psycho murder and rape threats in 3… 2… 1…
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January 8, 2017 at 6:12 pm
The Arbourist
@Meg
It would seem that listening, while being a valuable skill in learning about the world and people, is an underdeveloped skill in many of the men-folk. :/
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January 9, 2017 at 8:23 am
Bernie Orbust
“Women’s involvement in science and technology continue to be ignored or downplayed, and the only thing your male supremacist commenters have to say about Vera Rubin is little more than “eh, fuck her. Men have it just as bad.””
This is a completely senseless interpretation of my essay on the subject.
Your impression of “Bernie bros” is predicated on bigotry, prejudice and ignorance,
“It’s men presuming to define for women what is sexism and what is not and to hell with women’s actual experiences or opinion.”
The presumptions are all yours. If sexism is to be taken seriously, it must be defined objectively. If alleged acts of sexism are to be take seriously, they must be proven based on facts and reason. If a person is to be taken seriously, they must bring more than triggered emotions.
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January 11, 2017 at 8:34 am
The Arbourist
@Bernie Orbust
I’m curious as to what an agreeable level of objectivity would look like? Would a comparison to racism be helpful here? Because it is quite observable that there is a dearth of coloured talent and award winners in science, and we can point to the features in society (structural racism) that cause that.
Sexism, propagated by other features in society (patriarchy) has a similar pathology yet denial of its existence is still quite prevalent. So if racism can be observed in one case, but not sexism in a similar one, why is that?
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