Jed Rothwell wrote,
> >To add my piece of obligatory P.C. let me say that few
male
> >scientists have been both as brave and as brilliant as
> >Madame Curie . . .
> And not one was ever told by the Nobel committee: "Please
don't come to
> pick up your Nobel prize. It would be unseemly after that
affair you had
> lately." Curie was not fazed. She told them to mind their
own business, and
> she showed up to collect the prize. At least, that's how I
heard the story.
I hope the affair was with a man at least...not that there's
anything wrong with sisterhood.
Since Margaret Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson
(father :Gregory probably the best scientist of the New
Guinea clique) wrote a memoir of her parents ("With a
Daughter's Eye"), the lesbian connection between Mead and
Ruth Benedict has been no secret amongst the critics of this
field who use that as being further evidence that something
is amiss. Get it? <G> That is guilt by association, but what
else is new. The two women's love affair survived Mead's
three husbands, Benedict's failed marriage and later lesbian
affairs ... wow.... and who says science is no fun. These
anthropologists tend to practice what they see in the wilds,
don't they.... Monkey see, money, do... or something like
that.
