I’m going to treat this as a “booklet” because of its topicality.
An Indiana University business professor drew demands
for his firing after he tweeted this UNZ article about campus environments by Lance
Welton, “Are Women Destroying Academia? Probably”
It says that the article is 1500 words long, but it
doesn’t look it.
The article suggests that males are more likely to be geniuses
because of male instability and inpredictability and dependence on logical processing
with less attention to feelings or agreeableness.
But Welton is right in that
students need to learn to deal with other people’s ideas even if they could be threatening. I’ve seem this my whole life.
Maybe, that sounds like James Damore’s ideas, but in
this case the particular professor who wrote the tweet has more issues with
homophobia, reportedly. Furthermore, Damore suggested inclusiveness of everyone on an individual basis, simply not quota-consciouesness.
When I was in grad school at KU in the mid 1960s a
female student finished and went on to a PhD program at the University of
Illinois.
It’s true that some of the spectacular science fair
type achievements have been from young males (Jack and Luke Andraka, Taylor
Wilson, John Fish) but I’m not sure if I have a real sample and have looked at
the female accomplishments. I may be
biased in simply hanging around or paying attention more to people who appeal
to me personally.
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