Incidentally Turing himself didn’t, by some reports, treat Cicely Popplewell very well. We shouldn’t assume that members of one oppressed minority will also defend, or even be conscious of their attitudes to, other minorities.
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Obviously anyone can be a jerk. 90% of everyone is a jerk, and I see no reason to excuse people from this rule just because they’re attracted to a different type of person than me, or have different parts than me.
(Full disclosure: I too am a jerk.)
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I loved it! It makes the important point of why women often wind up being secretive, especially in eras like the 50s where their societal role was narrowing. 'Cos heaven forbid you be brilliant at something besides washing dishes.
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It’s that postwar letdown that gets to me. As in, here, you got to contribute to the war effort by being intelligent because we needed the men as cannon fodder, but now that the war is over if you could fuck off to the kitchen that would be great.
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Yes. For the past decade, at least…
The Naked Scientists Online
Edit: forgot about the nat geo show:
Naked Science (TV Series 2004– ) - IMDb
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I’m not so sure that I want to click on that link.
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That one is very safe, there were some with .ru extensions that I am assuming would have triggered our firewall filters…
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