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What Spotlighting Harassment In Astronomy Means
StartsWithABang writes: Geoff Marcy. Tim Slater. Christian Ott. And a great many more who are just waiting to be publicly exposed for what they've done (and in many cases, are still doing). Does it mean that astronomy has a harassment problem? Of course it does, but that's not the real story. The real story is that, for the first time, an entire academic field is recognizing a widespread problem, taking steps to change its policies, and is beginning to support the victims, rather than the senior, more famous, more prestigious perpetrators. Astronomy is the just start; hopefully physics, computer science, engineering, philosophy and economics are next.
I'm an astrologer and I frequently encounter harassment from mainstream astronomers and academics, so it swings both ways.
His conduct was unwelcome to me! BURN THE WITCH!!
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
You mean the comment to your coworker that "The view of Uranus is lovely tonight!" is no longer considered appropriate? Kill joys!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
"Simple solution .. castrate everyone who thinks they are a SJW.
They already act like a bunch of whiny punks with no balls anyway, and this way they won't procreate."
There. Fixed that for ya,
They are all trans anyway so they'll end up doing it to themselves just to fit into their own crowd!
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
I read "What Spotlighting Harassment in Astronomy Means" to say they were going to explain some harassment of astronomers by people with spotlights.
The headline should have said something about Sexual harassment, and "Implications of ..." rather than "What ... Means".
Is the headline's author not a native speaker of English?
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way