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So when it came to choosing public faces for the march, the organizers were struggling to figure out how not to screw up again.
“I love Bill Nye,” said Stephani Page, a biophysicist at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who created the Twitter hashtag #BlackAndSTEM. Page was asked to join the march’s board in February after she tweeted criticism of its approach to diversity. “But I do feel comfortable saying to you what I said to the steering committee: He is a white male, and in that way he does represent the status quo of science, of what it is to be a scientist.”
Adding Hanna-Attisha and Villa-Komaroff, she said, “was an opportunity to put up a picture of science that did not just fit the white male image.”
SJWs trying to "diversify" science will kill it faster than Trump's wildest dreams.
Science has traditionally been a difficult field for women to break into. What's wrong with highlighting a few successful female scientists, alongside the male ones, at a rally entitled the March for Science?
Keep it classy, Dims. Such an approach (and others like it, which seem to have become the order of the day for you guys) will ensure continued decreasing success with white working class voters.
Science has traditionally been a difficult field for women to break into. What's wrong with highlighting a few successful female scientists, alongside the male ones, at a rally entitled the March for Science?
There is nothing at all wrong with highlighting women and minority contributions to science, and emphasizing them to gain more of the same. There is , however, something wrong with science becoming political to the point where a white male (much if not most of the First World's scientists ) cannot be allowed to be the face of an event because he is, ....well, ....a white male.
And this is not said from any bias. I dont know the women mentioned, but I love NDGT , and the vibe and energy he brings to science.
Keep it classy, Dims. Such an approach (and others like it, which seem to have become the order of the day for you guys) will ensure continued decreasing success with white working class voters.
You are aware that women are more than 50 percent of the population, right? How horrible to show women in science. It will make all those insecure men angry, as seems to be the reaction in this thread.
Again, to soothe your injured psyche, there will be plenty of white men there as well, and Bill Nye is still one of the headliners. He's just not the ONLY headliner.
I know, I know, it's appalling that he will have to share the stage with a few women of science. But never fear, men still dominate the field and probably will for a decade or more to come. Which is kind of the point.
You are aware that women are more than 50 percent of the population, right? How horrible to show women in science. It will make all those poor insecure men angry, as seems to be the reaction in this thread.
Again, to soothe your injured little psyche, there will be plenty of white men there as well, and Bill Nye is still one of the headliners. He's just not the ONLY headliner.
I know, I know, it's appalling that he will have to share the stage with a few women of science. But never fear, men still dominate the field and probably will for a decade or more to come.
It's hilarious how threatened white males seem to be by smart women.
Be honest now. I dont think anyone feels threatened by smart women. it is simply being pointed out that naming Bill Nye as the headliner, then changing that in the face of PCness and complaints from PC folks about the fact that he is a white male are stupid.
its not about them selecting women or minorities. its about the decision to move away from Bill Nye simply because he is a white male.
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