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I can't believe someone could read Feynman's sandwich story and still recommend that book.
by caiocaiocaio 8y ago
I can't believe someone could read Feynman's sandwich story and still recommend that book.
- buzzdenver 8y agoFeynman's book is definitely super sexist by modern standards. I wasn't around in the 60s and 70s to know if his was the general attitude, or an outlier. To me, the book is decent for background listening during chores or driving (it is a free audiobook if your library has an associated Hoopla account), but almost all stories boil down to either "I was such a horny guy", or "I used different math tools which allowed me to solve the physics problem", which gets old after a while.
- caiocaiocaio 8y agoHis behaviour was sexist enough to elicit massive protests because he kept sexually harassing his female students. The earliest protests against him were in the 60s.
- 0x262d 8y agoagreed. part of breaking from the legacy and tradition of massive sexism and misogyny is critically evaluating things that subtly reinforce it (like Feynman's book). but tech culture is pretty averse to doing that and will insist that it doesn't matter and we can ignore the sexism which is safely "in the past" (as if).