Someone on here asked me if I'm a feminist. Maybe the fact that I'm a female theoretical astrophysicist could be one clue.
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Replying to @AstroKatie
Feminism is just one approach to gender equality. I find scientists more likely to pick a different one w less science-denialism
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Replying to @HPluckrose
No idea what you're talking about. All the best to you.
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Replying to @AstroKatie
The movement very much dominated by postmodernism now. Denies eg sexual dimorphism, sex differences & even evolution sometimes
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AstroKatie
This sort of thing.http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/11/scientific-objectivity-myth/ …
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AstroKatie
"Everyday feminism", despite its name, really is lunatic fringe.
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Replying to @IonaItalia @AstroKatie
In the humanities, I come up against it constantly. Accused of being conservative if I think science gives answers.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I know that's how u understand feminism & therefore I can totally see why you oppose it. I do think, tho, that every movement
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
has its lunatic fringe & ppl r 2 quick to tar every1 w that same brush. But this is going 2 become a question abt semantics
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Replying to @IonaItalia @HPluckrose
which isn't helpful. More worrying 2 me is when
@AstroKatie says we shd "respect" religion, esp. Islam. Not Muslims. Islam.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
Oh dear. That is disappointing.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AstroKatie
It's a really common, well-meaning but muddle-headed, confusion.
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