{"id":1174,"date":"2007-03-21T23:32:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T04:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/03\/21\/manly-sciencey-manliness\/"},"modified":"2007-03-21T23:32:22","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T04:32:22","slug":"manly-sciencey-manliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/manly-sciencey-manliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Manly, Sciencey Manliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be too busy for real blogging over the next couple of weeks, but fortunately I&#8217;m not too proud to refrain from cutting and pasting entire posts from other blogs!  This one from <a href=\"http:\/\/science-professor.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/real-men-diversity.html\">FemaleScienceProfessor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Discussion at a faculty meeting:<\/p>\n<p>Department Chair: Some of you may be interested in an upcoming visit to the university by a group from University A to share information about their program to increase the participation of women in science, engineering, and math. [hands around an informational memo, including the list of names of the visitors]<\/p>\n<p>Young Male Colleague: Hey, I know X! [mentions name of one of the visitors]. What is HE doing going around talking about women&#8217;s issues? He&#8217;s a real scientist! And a guy!<\/p>\n<p>Me: Men can be involved in helping solve the problem of the underrepresentation of women in science, engineering, and math.<\/p>\n<p>Young Male Colleague: No, I mean, this guy isn&#8217;t effeminate or anything. He&#8217;s really a.. a.. a.. a guy!<\/p>\n<p>Senior Female Colleague: Perhaps he is transgendered.<\/p>\n<p>Young Male Colleague, missing the obvious sarcasm, and offended on behalf of the Real Guy: I can assure you that he is nothing of the sort.<\/p>\n<p>Me: He must be a eunuch then.<\/p>\n<p>[Chair steps in and changes the subject]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although it hardly needs saying, I&#8217;d like to point out that my own occasional forays into &#8220;talking about women&#8217;s issues&#8221; are not evidence that I am not a real scientist, nor that I am not a guy.  Quite the contrary, in fact; they are but a necessary corrective.  My guy-ness is looming, unmistakable, and, frankly, intimidating.  Take my word for it, hypermasculinity can be a curse as well as a blessing.  So when I talk about how it would be nice if young girls were given the same opportunities and encouragement to pursue science as young boys, I&#8217;m doing it in large part to take the edge off of the fear that my unbridled <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/06\/01\/feminism-destroying-the-planet\/\">manliness<\/a> can strike into the hearts of lesser guys.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m going far enough, though.  Perhaps I should start wearing more floral prints, or take up <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2007\/02\/01\/knitting-is-a-guy-thing\/\">knitting<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be too busy for real blogging over the next couple of weeks, but fortunately I&#8217;m not too proud to refrain from cutting and pasting entire posts from other blogs! This one from FemaleScienceProfessor: Discussion at a faculty meeting: Department Chair: Some of you may be interested in an upcoming visit to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-women-in-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}