[TheBigB]

Uuuhhhh....yeah.

Can you make heads or tails of this one, Prof?

[js1138]

Math is hard. Let's go shopping.

[The G Man]

At first I thought this thread was about the BBC's accusation that Einstein "sexed up" his relativity dossier.

[socal_parrot]

Her action has led to my equal and opposite reaction.

[Alouette]

How many women do you know who have degrees in math?

I know at least one.

[longshadow]

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.

Gyno-physics ping!

[dead]

I'll sooner make sense of relativity than of this article.

[Always Right]

Women are turbulent. It is no wonder men don't understand them...Q.E.D.

[Viking2002]

Huh? The laws of physics are 'sexist'? Huh? What?

[Ronin]

Camille Paglia would b**ch slap this silly ditz.

(Not that there is anything wrong with that, you see...)

[VadeRetro]

Satire? Some kind of a joke, right?

[Billthedrill]

Yeah - it was worth a posting. But not a lot of people outside of the academic community are going to believe how seriously this stuff is taken by people with way, way too much time on their hands. I offer The War Against The Intellect as evidence.

[Johnny Gage]

[lelio]

Here's the Sokel parody paper that made it into Social Text. Fun read.

[Chewbacca]

So, was 'Chaos Theory' created based on the unstability of the female mental process?

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

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

Is anybody else getting warm in here, or is it just me...? :)

[shhrubbery!]

Isn't Alan Sokal the physicist who published a totally nonsensical spoof of deconstructionism or whatever, a few years back, and got it taken seriously AND PUBLISHED in some 'respectable journal' of deconstructionism?

My memory of it is that it brought down the whole house of deconstructionist cards.

But it's still being taught in all the chic universities, of course, just like that other discredited idea: Marxism.

In other words, isn't this a spoof?

(Maybe that's what Dawkins is writing about? Don't have time or inclination to read that guy now.)

[.cnI redruM]

E=mc^2 is sexed! Oh well, that explains a story I heard about Einstein. He was walking along, thinking about some equation, and walked right past his wife without even recognizing her. I guess I know which one was on his mind.

[TomB]

Luce, looking ravishing in her finest role......

Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your daugh-- ter's wedding...on the day of your daughter's wedding. And I hope that their first child be a masculine, er....., no, feminine, child. I pledge my ever-ending loyalty. -- For your daughter's bridal purse.

[wildbill]

I don't know which is worse, the rape of science in the name of postmodernism and feminism or the nuttification of liberal arts under the same banners.

Scientists can easily defend themselves, but poor college students in the liberal arts, especially English and literature often have no clue that they're being bamboozled by nonsense.

One feminist writer claims all writing up to modern times was misogynist because it was done with a pen--the dreaded phallic symbol. I asked the professor about cuniform writing and was tagged as a troublemaker.