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Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem
cold fjord writes: Phys.org reports, "The life sciences have come under fire recently with a study published in PLOS ONE that investigated the level of sexual harassment and sexual assault of trainees in academic fieldwork environments. The study found 71% of women and 41% of men respondents experienced sexual harassment, while 26% of women and 6% of men reported experiencing sexual assault. The research team also found that within the hierarchy of academic field sites surveyed, the majority of incidents were perpetrated by peers and supervisors. The New York Times notes, "Most of these women encountered this abuse very early in their careers, as trainees. The travel inherent to scientific fieldwork increases vulnerability as one struggles to work within unfamiliar and unpredictable conditions."
No, it's the fucking denialism makes you guilty.
"Oh they must be mismeasuring, because the results challenge my assumptions!" is not a hallmark of rationalism.
Yes. That was Dawkins that rightfully noted that you lot are complaining about 1st world non-problems.
You will take a situation that's not the least bit sinister and distort it until seems to be something entirely else.
That's why no one can trust any stories like these.
Radical feminists have hijacked the debate and the language.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
It's flamebait to imply anything other than feminism is evil and actively attacking poor helpless men. Sorry you didn't know that. It antagonizes the misogynists.
I don't get why they're so sensitive about it, but just a puff of genuine concern for gender equality(and the rather large body of evidence surrounding it) is seen as an attack.
I don't actually understand the motivations of the mods, but I've come to expect that hypersensitive behavior, regardless of my own understanding. Actual thought out replies to the concerns are missing for me to fill in the gaps.