Re: (was) cladistics as (non) science (now half WOB)

[Marilyn <mdwegweiser@home.com>]

Title: Re: (was) cladistics as (non) science (now half WOB)

At 11:35 AM -0800 12/23/01, Nick Longrich wrote:

> >      A response to
> > philidor11: Please, do not stop adding to the discussions
> > re:cladistics and scientific "discourse" often being, in the
> > main, a paradigm of social activities. I refer you, specificially, to
> > the work of: Donna Haraway, Evelyn Fox Keller, Brian Noble, among
> > others. My own methodology, in my in-progress book Alfred Russel
> > Wallace's KING KONG, is to note that paleontology, since Roy
> > Chapman Andrews's Indiana Jonesian escapes, has been relatively
> > masculinist.
>

        RELATIVELY macho? Half the "discoveries" in dinosaur paleontology can be summed up as "New Giant Dinosaur Proves Paleontologist Has Largest Penis". As much as I enjoy joining the guys around the campfire for a beer and a session of amicable masculine grunting (real men don't speak- they grunt), sometimes I feel sorry for the women in this field- it can't be easy being a woman in what is, a lot of the time, a great big pissing contest.

Hi Nick,

Ohhhhh ..... I almost didn't, and then I JUST couldn't resist playing with this one.

Your sympathy is deeply appreciated and such a kind nature will surely not go unnoticed by any of us! - but um, I don't hardly ever feel feel sorry for me at all. =)

FYI - Before I went to Antarctica I (and all the rest of us of a certain gender) had to learn how to do "it" standing up. Squatting with your knickers down in winds that will freeze metal to skin in seconds and hot coffee as it is thrown in the air is not an option. ;^)

I do concur that.........

It would sometimes appear that as the grunting and the modern warrior replication of "Me Mighty Paleotologist GOD, You Nothing But Stupid Compared to Me" pseudo-campfire tale-telling occurs, during which the verbal version of the reptilian defense mechanism of projectile urination is sprayed in the general direction of all those intending to be subordinated, that some of "them" may be way too busy to notice some of us (the women). THIS is a GOOD thing!

So, Nick! I for one (and I am sure there are others) appreciate your outspoken concerns but shhhhhhhh......... Keep quiet about us, OK? (the women with PhD's in this field, and those aspiring to them).

Nothing like being able to do what you want WHEN you want to, because nobody is paying any attention to you because you are *gurl*, 'K?! Just SHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Some of usssss, evil gurlssssssss just may intentionally choose to go off in to placesssssssss where no man has gone before. Lotsss of *new* fossilssssssss out there.

Merry Christmas!

Merry ___________ for those who do not celebrate the Christian 25th

Ciao & Cheers,

Marilyn D. Wegweiser,

Ph.D., 2000

Sequence Stratigraphy, Biostratigraphy, Forensic Paleontology