Quote: (11-14-2014 01:02 PM)atlant Wrote:
Let's not go overboard here. Yeah this SJW crusade in particular is one of the most laughable in recent memory. But let's not pretend that this dude's career has been stopped in its tracks or anything. ..... He'll be fine, and I'm pretty sure that the people who he is surrounded with in his life and career which actually matter, i.e. academics and scientists, also think it is completely ridiculous.
Atlant,
This is politics. It is a different beast.
Here are potential ways this shite can haunt him forever:
#1. Jealous, fellow female scientists(competing colleagues) will be waiting for any opportunity to bash him over the head with this fiasco, whenever it suits their interests.
#2. If in the future, Matt Taylor, is later up for a position and another female scientist is also up for that same position,.... odds are the position will go to that woman instead(even though she may be less qualified). Why? Because the female scientist could cause a ruckus over the administration choosing a "known misogynist" over her... which proves that the administration are chauvinistic arseholes just like this misogynist(matt taylor). They(the admininstration) will want to avoid gender discrimination lawsuits... hence, they will gave her the position instead of Matt taylor thereby affecting his career.
#3. If Matt Taylor is a thesis adviser for a female graduate student... and she is not performing up to par... If Matt Taylor gave a critical, unflattering assessment of her performance; she can claim that Matt Taylor negative attitudes towards women is holding her back...that Dr. Taylor is not judging her on merits, but gender... causing all sorts of independent/judicial review...etc... [ i knew a bitch that pulled this stunt in graduate school at my school, actually.]
#4. Or worse yet, if the graduate student claim that Matt Taylor sexually harassed her... who will they believe? Between Matt Taylor aka confirmed misogynist versus innocent, hardworking, budding female scientist? Of course, Matt Taylor will be guilty.
#5. To prove that He(matt taylor) is not misogynist... he may now have to fill up his lab with women... just for the good optics of proving: see! see! i work with women, i am not an evil misogynist. The unfortunate thing is that, he may not want to work with some of these women.. but it will be difficult for him to terminate them because of charges of being a misogynist. So, he may have to pass over qualified men for underqualified women, just so that he(matt taylor) doesn't come across as misogynist who hates women. Also, he will have to put up with cunty behaviour he would not normally tolerated... this shite will forever hang like the sword of Damocles over his head...
#6. This may jeopardize his chances of getting tenured at the right time, if he doesn't have tenure already. Politics play a role in who gets tenured or not. Your post, atlant, assume that scientific academia is this utilitarian, work-focused place... yes and no....in the sense that the politics of academia is vicious. They do the research...but they also play their version of mean political games...
#7. Any university wanting to hire him immediately after this, will be hesitant, because of potential protests of SJW on their campuses... and the attack on their physics department with charges of misogyny. Especially, if they[physics department] want to hire him for a position that another female scientist badly wants.
regards,
Nemencine