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> There's a lot of pressure in academia to find and publicize examples of "not hierarchical and male dominated" settlements, especially ones that achieved techn
by gopher_space 3y ago
> There's a lot of pressure in academia to find and publicize examples of "not hierarchical and male dominated" settlements, especially ones that achieved technical successes.
It's more a realization that we only have a hierarchical, male dominated point of view on history and that there's a ton of backfill work to do because of that limitation.
> A friend once received a 10 email tirade over several hours by making some benign metallurgical observations
Welcome to science? If they were meeting in person someone would have bounced a muffin off his head. People take what they're doing really seriously.
- gweinberg 3y agoI wouldn't consider bouncing a muffin off someone's head to be "taking things seriously". Closer to the opposite.
- 867-5309 3y agoeven a large, stale, paperweighty muffin?
- goatlover 3y agoWelcome to ideology. Can’t believe your defending this.
- woooooo 3y agoThe point is that the observations were completely uncontroversial and good science. The problem was that they conflicted with a political narrative someone wanted. If someone takes that more seriously than following the evidence where it leads, they suck and should get out of science.
- kulahan 3y agoWe have a serious problem if someone making a minor comment results in a 10-email tirade because "that's just science" or whatever nonsense is being used to justify it.
- mrguyorama 3y agoHave you not had meetings where you bike shed the copy on a website?