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- From: nadja@jetsun.weitek.COM (Nadja Adolf)
- Subject: Re: Camille Paglia is GOD! was Re: camille paglia
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:59:31 GMT
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- In article <Bxnw1G.39w@news.cso.uiuc.edu> levine@symcom.math.uiuc.EDU (Lenore Levine) writes:
- >Jason R. Pascucci <jasonp@PRIMERD.Prime.COM> writes:
-
- >>I could go on, she has so many quoteworthy phrases and
- >>sentiments, but, basically, read the book...
- >>A healthy attitude about sex, a healthy attitude about danger
- >>and living in a modern society, a healthy attitude about men
- >>and women, and the DIFFERENCES between them. All things
- >>very nice, and necessary, to prosper in life. It's definitely
- >>a two thumbs up.
-
- >What about her comments about mathematics? Saying that the historical
- >almost complete absence of women from research mathematics is not
- >likely to (or shouldn't) change. Saying that mathematics represents a
- >"masculine" way of thinking.
-
- This may be one we've helped do to ourselves.
-
- A few years ago some physiological research was done that demonstrated
- that women were more likely to recover their speech after a left side
- stroke than men. Shortly after this research was published, education
- faculties nationwide developed a 'left brain == male, right brain ==
- female' kick which many alleged feminists embraced. Agreeing with the
- educators (who had seriously distorted the actual findings of the
- original research) that women were 'right brained', this group of
- alleged feminists proceeded to buy into many old myths about creative
- and artistic women who of course, being right brained, were not
- capable of doing mean, aggressive, masculine tasks such as
- Mathematics.
-
- Some women were influenced by these ideas, and decided to abandon the
- sciences and technologies for the arts.
-
- Some women who opposed this mass dash for creativity were shouted down
- and abused as anti-feminist.
-
- The right wing couldn't have done it to us better than we did it to
- ourselves.
-
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