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There are no jobs for PhD mathematicians or physicists - that's what keeps people away from the field.
Also, when you get to grad school, just about all the mathematicians are foreign, often speak little English, and they do nothing but work, 24/7.
I think the overall negative tone that meets any product for female libido is a result of the heterosexism of feminism.
Yeah for small boobs!
Yeah for women killing their husbands! (We know men are never victims of domestic violence!)
The 70s are calling. Move your hairy legs and get to the clitoris-viewing consciousness-raising session at your lesbian friend's house. Spend the evening talking about the "gynocide" and the "patriarchy".
Pretend your inward-focused, echo chamber discussions matter outside of the incestuous circle you socialize with.
Remain in denial that they don't matter at all.
Hillary Clinton is the Ralph Nader of 2008. And you morons who want her in the White House at all costs are bigger bigots than anyone else in this election.
Thanks for handing the election off to the Republicans, feminazis.
Privileged, sexually promiscuous American white woman opines on the "Arab world".
Are you completely unaware of your racism, TCF?
I've been to Arab countries in the Middle East. I have relatives from Iraq and Syria.
Perhaps some of us are tired of the white feminist racism that was brought to the surface during HRC's painful run for the Democratic candidacy.
Now every privileged American white woman seems to feel entitled to tell other countries how to their society should be run, not to mention their entitlement regarding telling Black Democrats how they "should" vote.
I guess it's the "white woman's burden", which you seem to be defending, and that's racist and pathetic.
Wow, that was another wacko white women trying to tell the world how to act.
I guess your sense of cultural superiority allows you to give other strident privileged white women a free pass for their racism. No wonder most of the world rejects the bigotry of American feminism.
Why do you choose to ignore the privileged white feminist anger in this story which attempts to paint the "Arab world" with a broad brush.
Haven't we had enough of this "white women's burden" during HRCs campaign? Her basically asking him to bow to her and concede the race? Her talking about her traction with "white voters"?
Why are you so oblivious to your own myopia on this issue? Why are you enabling the implicit racism of TCF?
Oh, and by the way, half of my family is from Iran, and some of my relatives are from Iraq. Not that it matters.
Well, Asehpe, you just have to look at the feminist vitriol directed at anyone who paints "American women" with a similarly broad brush as TCF did with the "Arab world" to see how, for some reason, that counts as "sexism" according to feminist diktat.
But making expansive assumptions about any other group that does not consist of white, privileged American female feminists seems okay.
Sweeping, fact-free generalizations about men are commonplace on feminist boards such as this, as are generalizing comments that treat "Africans" or "Asians" or "the Arab world" as homogeneous.
Why, then is it acceptable for feminists to make comments about people who occupy an entire subcontinent and often similarly smear half of humanity (all males), but it's "sexist" to generalize about women?
Maybe some intellectual rigor and standards out to be part and parcel of feminist discourse. That would be an unprecedented 180-degree shift compared to the bias feminists currently accept wholeheartedly, but deny exists.
"All Saudi husbands are not nice"? You think this is fine?
Here's an equivalent excerpt for you:
Noor is a babe, but, more important, she is a loving and supportive wife who allows her husband to pursue his passions and a career outside of the home. In an interview with NBC, men's activist Dr. Farouk Abu Khalid explained: "[Saudi men] haven't seen such a sensitive, passionate, giving personality. It is the first time men have a role model for female beauty and passion and can compare her with their wives. It is the first time they found out their wives are not nice, that they are not being treated the way they should be, and that there is an option outside." Indeed, 24-year-old Hamdi Hamdan, a man in Amman, Jordan, told the Associated Press that he lectured his wife: "Learn from her [Noor] how she treats him, how she loves him, how she cares about him."
As for taking the high road, let's see a mainstream American feminist do that. There are fewer more intolerant places than a feminist discussion. The next time someone talks about "all women" in a negative way, maybe you could graciously take the high road.
Oh did you read that Mary Winkler got custody of her kids after murdering her husband? After her children told the press they were afraid of her? Women are so oppressed....