"I am woman, hear me roar" - but when it comes to math, sobbing rules the day? - Granite Grok

“I am woman, hear me roar” – but when it comes to math, sobbing rules the day?

math - it burnsThe last few months have not been kind to the feminists that have insisted that there are no differences between guys and gals because gender is merely a “social construct”.  I guess that math hasn’t gotten the message – or is it that feminists are too blinkered to admit that math really doesn’t care what you are (emphass mine, reformatted):

 Oxford University extends time for maths and computer science exams in bid to help women get better grades.

Oxford University has extended time for maths and computer science exams in a bid to help women get better grades. Undergraduates were given 105 minutes to complete their papers, rather 90. There was no change in difficulty or the length of questions and female students were said to do better as a result. Dons trialed the changes to allow women to achieve higher results, with just seven female maths finalists achieving firsts last year compared with 45 men. The proposals were put forward to reduce the ‘undue effects of time pressure’ which the prestigious university believe affects women more than men, reports the Sunday Times.

The message from Oxford is clear:

Women can’t keep up with men in math. The university is also doing its female math students the serious disservice of teaching them that time constraints don’t apply — a notion which the real world will disabuse them of without pity.

Look, math is hard – I only got through multi-variate calculus.  While in college, I did get friendly with a gal who was a math major (just a friend and nothing more) and she tried to explain some of the higher order stuff she was studying.  Turned out, and I kinda understood, that some of it couldn’t be put into words – you needed math to describe that math that dealt with multi-dimensional / variate timescales kind of weird abstracts.  I could have used a couple of extra weeks and still never passed one of her tests but then again, I could code rings around her and I would have never let her near a Bunsen burner.

To be honest, I’m not in total agreement with that last part of the post. I’ve watched the absolute nuttiness and willingness to hold multiple opposing ideas (that didn’t make sense in the first place) that is playing out around college campuses across the country and world.  One would hold that when they get out into the wider world, they’d disappear in a heartbeat but we still see pussyhats, a billion different kind of genders, redefining our common language with made up pronouns, and political correctness absurdities spilling across the fruited plains (and what they pushing really is fruity-tooty, if you catch the nuance).

It really comes down that we have people who either have too much money in the bank, too much time on their hands, and not enough hard stuff to take up their time or people who are preying on the former snowflakes that has caused and continuing this nonsense.  Look, the above “time” is a real world situation – men and women are different.  That’s not a bad thing – rejoice in the differences but it is a hard lesson to learn for those that are trying to wipe out any difference between the two sexes.

(H/T: Instapundit)

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