Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/Pinker and Lakoff/reply

Not to drag you into a battle with me - that's not my goal. my goal is to whine. But fuck Chomsky and his idea that saying "how is science a male thing" is like asking "how is science a jewish thing". Women and men - not because of biology but because of our collective roles and the fact that women were told to shut the fuck up for 2000 years - have different ways of thinking, of seeing reality. You need only read Jocylin Brunelles' writings to hear why finding pulsars would be more likely in the hands of a woman, to see this point. Jesus christ, no wonder women get tired to trying to tell teh "Great Minds" that there are problems. They don't want to listen. (and by the way, there might well be a reason since is "jewish" and not, say "chinese" or "japanese" - since the cultures for both of those countries might well not have even produced "Science" in the same way. the idea there is "ONE SCIENCE and ONE SCIENTIFIC METHOD" is just more of the same "Im right you are wrong" bullshit white men in power use.

Ok, done with teh feminsit ranting. sorry. I just used you. :-) I'll buy you some icecream to make up for it.

OK, now onto Pinker and Lakoff. will I get more angry? likely.

In the back of your mind, if you know of other writers working on the kinds of things Pinker talks about, and the one I don't remember but you linked me to his blog - I'd love a list. I've got the feminists you suggest, but i also want to stay up on modern cognitive thought - but the actual articles from cognitive scientists are often over my head.