Atheists & Agnostics

AlbertCat

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4. It's just the kind of joke....

Fri Jun 19, 2015, 12:16 PM

Jun 2015

..... I'd expect a 70-something scientist to make. He didn't mean it to be a serious statement about the emotions of women scientists. It was supposed to be absurd and a little non-PC for effect. It would have passed with a bunch of rolled eyes and forgotten if the over-sensitive hadn't freaked out. It will not destroy women's places in science or anywhere else. Pointing out a 70 year old egg head may not be up to the minute on social issues is not revelatory.

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