news flash: world still full of sexism
Nov. 12th, 2012 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianActually, James Watson, I still want to kick you in the shins. From a Boing Boing interview about the new edition of The Double Helix, on Rosalind Franklin:
"In this new edition, I notice that Ray [Gosling - her student] has rather a good line in response to my comments about her appearance. He notes that I never saw her dressed up to go out in the evening, and that she had an elegance that I probably never saw."
Oh, maybe she was able to clean up nice after all! Well, never mind then. That is SO IMPORTANT. How about saying, I WAS WRONG TO BE CATTY ABOUT THE APPEARANCE OF AN AWESOME SCIENTIST? Sexist bastard. God knows what his attitude would have been if she'd actually felt like looking attractive at work -- that NEVER goes poorly.
"In this new edition, I notice that Ray [Gosling - her student] has rather a good line in response to my comments about her appearance. He notes that I never saw her dressed up to go out in the evening, and that she had an elegance that I probably never saw."
Oh, maybe she was able to clean up nice after all! Well, never mind then. That is SO IMPORTANT. How about saying, I WAS WRONG TO BE CATTY ABOUT THE APPEARANCE OF AN AWESOME SCIENTIST? Sexist bastard. God knows what his attitude would have been if she'd actually felt like looking attractive at work -- that NEVER goes poorly.
