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E=mc2 is a "sexed equation". Newton's Principia (a "rape manual")
NYU Dept. Physics ^ | Published in Nature, 9 July 1998, vol. 394, pp. 141-143.] | Richard Dawkins

Posted on 02/11/2004 1:55:19 PM PST by Helms

The feminist 'philosopher' Luce Irigaray is another who gets whole-chapter treatment from Sokal and Bricmont.

In a passage reminiscent of a notorious feminist description of Newton's Principia (a "rape manual"), Irigaray argues that E=mc2 is a "sexed equation".

Why? Because "it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us" (my emphasis of what I am rapidly coming to learn is an 'in' word). Just as typical of this school of thought is Irigaray's thesis on fluid mechanics.

Fluids you see, have been unfairly neglected. "Masculine physics" privileges rigid, solid things.

Her American expositor Katherine Hayles made the mistake of re-expressing Irigaray's thoughts in (comparatively) clear language. For once, we get a reasonably unobstructed look at the emperor and, yes, he has no clothes:

The privileging of solid over fluid mechanics, and indeed the inability of science to deal with turbulent flow at all,

she attributes to the association of fluidity with femininity. Whereas men have sex organs that protrude and become rigid, women have openings that leak menstrual blood and vaginal fluids... From this perspective it is no wonder that science has not been able to arrive at a successful model for turbulence.

The problem of turbulent flow cannot be solved because the conceptions of fluids (and of women) have been formulated so as necessarily to leave unarticulated remainders.

You do not have to be a physicist to smell out the daffy absurdity of this kind of argument (the tone of it has become all too familiar), but it helps to have Sokal and Bricmont on hand to tell us the real reason why turbulent flow is a hard problem: the Navier-Stokes equations are difficult to solve.

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To: RikaStrom
Oh gawd... This I gotta see...
61 posted on 02/11/2004 6:27:38 PM PST by maxwell (Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
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To: johnb838; LonePalm; Sonny M
I have a degree in math. About 1/3 of my class at engineering school were also female. The two best professors in the math department were also female. Also during the almost 20 years I spent in tech at Ford and GM I never heard any of this kind of feminist crap from any of the engineers of either gender.

OK, well maybe from the HR dept. during the "diversity" craze.

62 posted on 02/11/2004 6:39:11 PM PST by Alouette (I chose to NOT have an abortion -- 9 times.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
It's also typical of the state of 'scholarship' in the humanities these days.

Hey I busted my tail for that degree in ecofeminism!

63 posted on 02/11/2004 8:53:28 PM PST by RightWingNilla
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To: Helms
WTF?
64 posted on 02/11/2004 8:56:50 PM PST by Petronski (John Kerry looks like . . . like . . . weakness.)
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To: lelio
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65 posted on 02/11/2004 9:06:11 PM PST by RightWingNilla
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To: lelio
You offered me sausage, and all I got were links.
66 posted on 02/11/2004 9:14:27 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I remember reading something on "smooth-wall turbulence" once that seemed to contradict common sense but was demonstrated to happen.
67 posted on 02/11/2004 9:20:30 PM PST by Old Professer
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To: Helms
Whereas men have sex organs that protrude and become rigid, women have openings that leak menstrual blood and vaginal fluids... From this perspective it is no wonder that science has not been able to arrive at a successful model for turbulence.

Nonsense. From a very early age, and for the rest of their lives, men exclusively have daily opportunities to observe parabolic arcs, drainage, fluid flow, fluid turbulence, bubble formation, and fluid mixing.

Here's a young engineer studying his subject:


68 posted on 02/12/2004 12:48:05 AM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
First, the "wardrobe malfunction" at the Superbowl. Now you post this picture. How much further can our civilization fall?
69 posted on 02/12/2004 6:48:25 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: Helms
'philosopher' Luce Irigaray

I haven't read her name since graduate school. She's a post-modern hyper-feminist of the let's get nasty and decontextualize variety. Nothing has meaning to her unless it's somehow related to the speculum. I guess it's nice to know she's still out there, still not making sense.
70 posted on 02/12/2004 6:52:09 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: All
this book has a discussion of this foolishness Higher Superstition
71 posted on 02/12/2004 7:38:14 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Helms; 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Note: this topic is from 2/11/2004. Thanks Helms. Vote tomorrow!

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72 posted on 11/05/2018 3:43:54 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Helms

GACR

Great American Cultural Revolution

To borrow naming convention from Chinese.


73 posted on 11/05/2018 4:26:47 PM PST by samtheman (Hold the House, expand in the Senate)
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To: Helms

At least when men aren’t smart enough (or, more likely, willing to work hard enough) to understand math and physics, they admit it and move on. They don’t try to blame it on their sex or overly large muscles, or something silly like that. They move on. But this woman? She couldn’t get any sillier.


74 posted on 11/05/2018 4:27:26 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: SunkenCiv

I’ll bet the author makes a terrible sammich.


75 posted on 11/06/2018 3:55:47 AM PST by BraveMan
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