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> "This has less to do with misogyny" How did they shoehorn in sexism into an article about animals? This has nothing to do with misogyny because animals are i
by andonisus 7y ago
> "This has less to do with misogyny"
How did they shoehorn in sexism into an article about animals? This has nothing to do with misogyny because animals are incapable of reason.
- ptah 7y agoit's a joke
- zihotki 7y agoOr is it?
- ptah 7y agothe plot thickens
- andonisus 7y agoI don't see the humor.
- tantalor 7y agoExplaining the joke to you: Whenever we discover unexpected bias due to sex we usually first assume sexism at work, but that's funny here because ancient megafauna aren't sexist.
- andonisus 7y agoI understand why it might be considered a joke, but it doesn't make sense (and is not funny), because the subject in question is not human.
- gameswithgo 7y agoIs it possible you are too caught up in being triggered about gender issues to find anything funny, anymore?
- spidermango 7y agonot everyone has a sense of humor
- whamlastxmas 7y agoBe careful, you don't want to get Stallman'd
- daveFNbuck 7y agoThe sexism would be coming from the people collecting fossils and curating the museums. Later in the article they mention that human biases affect the gender ratios of collections of extant organisms (although not for sexist reasons) so it's not a completely absurd thing to rule out.
- andonisus 7y agoSo the argument would be the the (male) paleontologists, museum curators, etc. had such a burning hatred for women that they chose male specimens to cultivate and display?
- black_puppydog 7y agoor simply that male subjects are for some reason or another easier to present in an interesting way, as decided by curators etc of any gender.
- andonisus 7y agoHow would that be a case of misogyny, then?
- daveFNbuck 7y agoIt isn't. No one is saying that it is.
- salad77 7y agoYou've got it, there's even a paper on this regarding glaciology see https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030913251562336...
- andonisus 7y agoI (unfortunately) cannot access this paper because it is behind a paywall, but surely it must be satire?
- gameswithgo 7y ago> because animals are incapable of reason. hmm