There can be no surer sign that women in the West have achieved all-but-total equality than their obsession with touting trivial nonsense – “mansplaining”, “manspreading” – as some kind of monstrous patriarchal oppression. Should the public fail to be sufficiently “awoken” by such trifles, feminists resort to half-informed shrieking fits based on lies and statistical ignorance: the so-called “gender pay-gap”, for instance.
But if none of that made modern feminists look silly and crazy enough, now they’re taking to imitating Monty Python.
Female paleontologists, including some from the University of California, Berkeley, are wearing fake beards to highlight alleged gender bias in their field.
The Bearded Lady Project tries to show that “you don’t have to be a man to love fieldwork and contribute to science,” according to a UC Berkeley news release.
A more apt name might be “The No-Shit Sherlock Project”. Does anyone, outside of feminists’ unhinged imaginations, seriously think otherwise?
The purpose of the project is “to celebrate the inspirational and adventurous women who choose to dedicate their lives in the search of clues to the history of life on earth” and “to educate the public on the inequities and prejudices that exist in the field of science, with special emphasis on the geosciences.”
I went on my first fossil dig in 1979. Approximately half the participants, more-or-less, were female. None of whom were relegated to just fetching coffee or looking good in a skirt: everyone, male and female, was hands-on fossicking in the muddy quarry site. More recently, studying science subjects at university, all my lecturers and many of my fellow students were female. Every science panel or symposium I’ve ever attended has had more than its share of women representatives. The only really noticeable gender trends I’ve ever noticed is that women tend to gravitate to the life and medical sciences, which probably says more about innate human nature than any wicked male-domination plot.
As for the earth sciences, as a female mining geologist said to a panel I attended when she entered the field, she was in fact treated as an equal. “Don’t expect any favours just because you’re a girl,” she was told. Instead, she found, as long as she put in the hard yakka, no-one cared that she was female.
Even the participants in this “beard” nonsense seem to tacitly concede that it’s a load of bollocks.
“While I happily agreed to participate, I never could quite get my head around why there should be anything symbolic about putting on a beard,” wrote [UC-Berkeley paleontologist and professor Leslea] Hlusko on her personal website. “I totally get the issue though, and deeply.”
In other words, feminism has such a death-grip on academia that no-one wants to risk career suicide by openly spouting heresy.
Even their chosen examples show how counter to fact this foolishness really is.
[Paleontologist Patricia] Holroyd claims the movemen […] will have accomplished its goal when white male stereotypes are banished — stereotypes that have been created by movies like Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park.
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Aside from the casual racism, this claim shows utter ignorance: Indiana Jones is an archaeologist, not a paleontologist, and Jurassic Park’s action-hero is the character of paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, while computer geek Alexis Murphy ultimately saves the day by bringing Jurassic Park “back on-line”.
If feminism wants to be taken seriously any more, it needs to ditch the anti-male conspiracy theories and stop obsessing over trivia. And ditch the stupid beards that look like they were haggled over in a Judean bazaar.
