Discovery Channel Netherlands: Not for women!

[asterroc]

Found via hrafn, the URL says it all.

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/12/08/the-discovery-channel-not-for-womens-eyes/

Like I said in another recent post, there's reasons I don't usually reveal my gender in a science context, and now the Discovery Channel has joined those reasons.

(Edited to the correct name of the channel: Discovery Channel. Not to be confused with Discover Magazine.)

Comments

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

Apparently some people want to keep the no girls allowed sign up outside the lab. Which I completely fail to understand. At least there is progress being made even if it is of the one step forward 0.9 steps backward kind.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Apparently some people want to keep the no girls allowed sign up outside the lab.

I found myself thinking in response "well then, we'll just keep up the no boys allowed sign outside the ...." and then realized there wasn't anywhere in the women's realm that men desperately wanted to go.^* Which is even MORE fucking wrong than the rest of this.

^*This may not strictly be true, for example in the very lucrative field of nursing, but there seem to be many more high power / high money / prestigious / exclusive areas dominated by men than by women.