ext_366694 ([identity profile] bladed-crescent.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] danalwyn 2006-11-30 12:59 am (UTC)

Are you familiar with the Simpsons episode where a feminist segregates the school according to sex and in her math class, she asks the girls questions like: "How does the number seven make you feel?" then berates Lisa for her male-oriented viewpoint in that every problem has a hard and fast solution?

That's not really much of an exaggeration.

As far as I can tell - I've actually read a few screeds on the subject of "feminist" sciences, though it's been few years since then and I've probably forgot a few things - that it considers the "male" perspective flawed (I use the quotations, because I was unaware that the scientific method was sex/equal rights based), because it uses "objective" assumptions and relies on said results and calls for, well, basically what you outlined above. Answers should be "intuited" not aggressively searched out - or if they are, through a method more female friendly. What is intended to replace objective analysis usually points to making assumptions based on intuition and feelings rather than observed and measurable qualities. A.k.a. doctors go back to dressing up like wizards.

Like you've already pointed out, "feminist" approaches to science are hard to qauntify/measure, since they don't acccomplish anything, only make vague assertions about how it should be done and doing it any other way is inherently misogynistic.

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