Interesting Links for 19-05-2022

[andrewducker]

1. There's a plan for 200 homes and green offices at Edinburgh's old Scottish Widows HQ

(tags:Edinburgh housing )

2. There are only 10 types of movies.

(tags:movies posters viaSwampers )

3. DS9 series suggestion: Quark's

(tags:StarTrek TV )

4. Transphobes are the ones making up new definitions

(tags:language transgender LGBT bigotry )

5. Four countries pledge tenfold rise in EU offshore wind power capacity

(tags:windpower europe )

6. Edinburgh Zoo penguin Mrs Wolowitz is thought to be the oldest of her species in the world

(tags:penguins age edinburgh zoo )

7. A galactic collision strips dark matter, starts star formation

(tags:darkness physics space )

8. Weed legalisation linked to drop in alcohol, tobacco consumption

(tags:marijuana legalisation alcohol tobacco cigarettes )

9. Girls see physics as for white men only, MPs told

(tags:racism sexism society uk science physics Education )

10. Two thirds of Edinburgh residents would cycle if there were more separated cycle lanes

(tags:edinburgh cycling polls )

11. "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting," Ten Years On

(tags:society lgbt racism sexism history patriarchy kyriarchy )

Comments

[cosmolinguist]

4. What a nice thread by your fellow Andrew there. :)

[cmcmck]

4. Guess I could become a cisphobe if the mood was really on me, but why would I be? :o)

[qilora]

"6. Edinburgh Zoo penguin Mrs Wolowitz"

back in Mrs Wolowitz's day you had to swim upstream both ways to catch your fishes, and you caught ONE herring per day and were grateful! dang nabit!

[qilora]

"9. Girls see physics as for white men only, MPs told"

this is true of mathematics too (math and physics are two sides of same coin)... i minored in high mathematics and got a 3.9 GPA... but i am female, so take a guess how welcome i was at finding support when i was trying to get my master's in math...

many sciences are anti-human in their "teams"... i finally decided that i did not want to conform to that lifestyle anymore.. i spent a year, communicating with 126 faculty members, but could not find a major professor; this fight was literally killing me.... and i withdrew my master's of science application, and applied (and was accepted) to get my master's in history and promptly lost every one of my friends of the field of science...

when i announced on FB that i was accepted to OSU for my History MA, i *literally* had people post outrage ("noooo!") and one woman fought with me through several comments, saying that she was in shock because i was "the best environmental scientist" that she knew...

being gifted in math/science makes you somehow obligated to stay in those fields for the rest of you life...

[nameandnature]

4's definition of "man"/"woman" will do when we don't need or want to know about biology, but adopting it does mean that it wasn't fair to apply the term transphobe to the woman suing the rape crisis centre because they wouldn't put her in a support group which didn't contain men. In that case, the complainant says that she was put in a group with "someone who appeared to be a man", and I think the Twitter thread in 4 is saying it's fair enough that she then reacted to that person as if they were a man.