Jed Rothwell wrote: > Harry Veeder wrote: > >> Yes, but his article was not about the values and attitudes of >> contemporary professors. > > They are the ones who shape the academic environment, and give a pass > to stupid, lazy men while they fail hardworking women. > >> Today women only encounter serious prejudice in the specific fields of >> engineering, maths and physics. > > That is not what women professors and students tell me. To say the least.
How do square your statements above with these remarks from your last post?: > ...the most highly educated >sector of society tends to be the most conservative, because people >who go to college have money and they have the biggest stake in the >status quo. If anything, increased female participation in higher >education will lead to increased conservatism among women, and more >concern about obsolete social mores, hierarchy and the other petty >concerns that dominate the waking hours of most primates. I would suggest to you that many (not all) of the claims of prejudice are rooted in petty concerns. > Really, this is like suggesting that today, black people do not > encounter serious prejudice in college -- or in traffic accidents on > the street for that matter. If that is what you think, I suggest you > read this article about a Washington DC hairdresser named Fishburne: I made no such suggestion. You are suggesting it. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/24/AR200606240108 > 2.html > > Although he is Gulf War vet who carries a military ID and has > fingerprints on file, the police confused him with a fugitive named > Tucker who is two inches taller, 50 lbs heavier, with different > fingerprints. Fishburne rotted for weeks in jail, lost his job, his > car, and had thousands of dollars stolen from his credit cards after > the police confiscated them. Eventually, the authorities "released" > him. That is to say, they threw him out into the street in Atlanta, > GA, after giving him back they $80 in cash he had on him when he was > arrested, leaving him no means to return to Washington. I hope justice is served. > If that happened to a white Gulf War vet it would be headlines in > every newspaper and blog in the country. Irrelevant speculation. Harry
