Feminists Offended That Female Math Club Event Has Male Speakers By Tom Knighton
https://pjmedia.com/trending/feminists-offended-female-math-club-event-male-speakers/
It started innocently enough, with a poster advertising a Women In Math club event at BYU that featured “data science, topology, number theory and dynamical systems.” It had photographs of the people who would speak at the event.
But because those speakers are men, it was attacked:
The College Fix reports that the school apologized for the optics, which were accidental, but it wasn’t enough for some people:
When the university’s math department apologized for any offense taken Wednesday morning, while saying they were amused by the optics of the poster, that just led to more accusations of being insensitive to women or marginalizing them somehow.
Well, the optics were amusing. You see, while some were tweeting out things like this:
Well, the poster was designed by Bryn Balls-Barker, a research assistant at Brigham Young University. A woman.
Whoops.
Unfortunately, this is the world we live in today. People see four dudes speaking to a women’s math club, and automatically are offended. It couldn’t possibly be anything but nefarious. They want to get offended.
The truth is, nothing happened. There was no “mathematical mansplaining” taking place. Balls-Barker argued: “A lot of my success in statistics has come from networking, which has included men, and I think it was a good idea to try to include more voices in your department in the club.” In other words, she invited the male speakers to provide networking opportunities for the women. CONTINUE AT SITE
Comments are closed.
