On 29 Mar 2005 14:33:15 -0800, rdubose{at}pdq.net wrote:

>   Recently Hyerdahl ended a long thread concerning women in science by
>spewing out a series of quotes from women who had felt less than
>sufficiently welcomed at VMI and MIT, etc. Leaving aside the question
>whether or not any of it is very true, the biggest, most obvious fact
>that rears up is that these women never really wanted much to succeed
>in the first place.

If Pargerdahl posted it, it's not true.

The very silly MIT report, authored/chaired by the Lady of the
Vapors, Nancy Hopkins, is debunked here:
http://www.uaf.edu/northern/mitstudy/
and here: http://www.iwf.org/pdf/mitfinal.pdf

A visit to nearly any university's website makes it clear that
they clearly discriminate in favor of women, as do all gov't
agencies.

....

>   Everytime a woman sues a company for gender discrimination she is
>actually announcing to the world that she was never serious about it
>all in the first place. Without much doubt, her career is toast
>thereafter. So she is burning bridges because she cares not for the

Who needs a career after being handed millions of dollars by a
corrupt court system?

>business she is in. And second, if someone is really serious about
>doing something, the way guys are serious, a big part of the pleasure
>of winning is doing it without getting help from mommy/daddy.
>   Feminists are so terminally spoiled and out-of-touch.

Perhaps not - Hopkins, a politician posing as a "scientist,"
personally gained a lot from her bogus report.




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