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Total aside here, but this article is a good example of the problem, so I just want to point it out. People go digging, usually pretty hard, to find insults to
by Workaccount2 3y ago
Total aside here, but this article is a good example of the problem, so I just want to point it out.
People go digging, usually pretty hard, to find insults to use as capital in whatever point they are trying to make. In this case, yes, she received a lot of criticism and ad-hominem attacks for her correct answer. But she wasn't really criticized for being a woman, despite it being repeated multiple times in the article.
Look at the given list of people who wrote her angry letters and what they wrote:
Ph.D
Ph.D
Ph.D
Ph.D
Ph.D
Non-doctorate professor?
Don Rivers from Sunriver Oregon who made a sexist remark.
Why is a comment from Don Rivers given so much weight? Who the fuck is Don Rivers from the town of 1,400 people in central Oregon? Man or woman, if you receive 10,000 hate letters from the general population, you can surely find whatever criticism you want if you dig hard enough. But why pay attention or give any weight to these absolute nobodies?
- glimshe 3y agoBecause there would be no article and thus no clicks and no ad money without the comment from Don Rivers from central Oregon.
- bemusedthrow75 3y ago> But she wasn't really criticized for being a woman Nobody is saying she was criticised for being a woman, though. What they are observing is that it was the basis of and the tenor of attacks on her character, intelligence, certainty etc. It was nasty and it really happened, is all I'm saying. Are we better? I hope so. But I don't know that I think so.
- desert_rue 3y agoExactly. Would the tone of the letters been different if the column was said to be have written by a man? Likely they would be different. This is what makes discussions about discrimination so hard- it can be very subtle. And it can include situations like this one, where we don’t have a test environment where we can compare responses to the article written by a woman to the one written by a man.
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- ajross 3y ago> Who the fuck is Don Rivers from the town of 1,400 people in central Oregon? FWIW, Sunriver is a resort community outside of Bend. It's not the middle of nowhere, it's filled with tech industry vacationers and wealthy retirees.