Presumably a reference to David Gelernter for anyone else wondering.
For those who go down the rabbit hole:
- Wikipedia still lists him as employed at Yale
- Yale’s faculty page still has him listed
- He was very recently relieved from teaching duties while Yale reviews the emails that happened after Epstein’s conviction
- He rates last out of 82 computer science professors at Yale
I’m wondering why he had a job to begin with. Being against women in the workforce should preclude you from being allowed to teach women who might enter the workforce.
With professors like that, it’s no wonder that there’s a dearth of women in CS.
It’s not much better once you get into the workforce. Unfortunately. And so much of the misogyny is invisible to men until it’s pointed out to them explicitly.
But I agree:
If you believe that members of the opposite sex should not be permitted to be working, you should not be permitted to work outside of occupations which are necessarily restricted by sex.
Similarly, if you don’t think think you should have to work with brown people, disabled people, foreign people…
The boy who was in charge of my robotics club believed that girls can’t program and refused to teach or help me (I remember that I “looked too confused” to be helped out with enums….) . I remember once, I was playing with some Java code at lunch, and him and the other coders all stopped to mock how shitty a programmer I was because they saw a bunch of squiggly red lines (hadn’t loaded in all the libraries, just was curious what mobile video game coding looked like).
It was so goddamn isolating as a high schooler. Being a weirdo computer geek, but not welcome with the other weirdo computer geeks because of my sex.
On the subject of Ted Kaczynski and people in the Epstein files, I get an opportunity to revive this old limerick:
Lewinsky and Clinton have shown,
what Kaczynski must surely have known:
That an intern is better
than a bomb in a letter
of the possible ways to be blown.Oh, '90s. You were a simpler time.
We could still make limericks about current-day atrocities if we wanted to.
Trump and Epstein they knew,
The most terrible things they could do,
Defile young kids, for the highest bids,
Then pass the bill on to you.
