Basically the great insight of feminism is that when you charge into a politically and ideologically charged topic and try to study it like a space alien in a totally detached manner, you loose all sorts of relevant information.
For example, when you try to ask in quantum physics, is this a particle or a wave, it stops making any sense because your question is bad. The experience I have, which may not be everywhere because I took a feminism class where the professor was a quantum physicist, is that asking questions like “are women less intelligent than men” or “are women more vengeful than men” carry implicit value judgments which lead to generally bad decisions among politicians.
So while being “detached” from your context may help when doing math problems, it gives you a certain perspective on, say, affirmative action. If you’re supposed to forget about context...
Anyway I’m rambling. I have been meaning to write a top-level post about it all, but it’s a bit intimidating given the high quality of posts in general and I’ve been really busy. Probably in a couple of weeks I will have more time and hopefully get around to it.
Basically the great insight of feminism is that when you charge into a politically and ideologically charged topic and try to study it like a space alien in a totally detached manner, you loose all sorts of relevant information.
For example, when you try to ask in quantum physics, is this a particle or a wave, it stops making any sense because your question is bad. The experience I have, which may not be everywhere because I took a feminism class where the professor was a quantum physicist, is that asking questions like “are women less intelligent than men” or “are women more vengeful than men” carry implicit value judgments which lead to generally bad decisions among politicians.
So while being “detached” from your context may help when doing math problems, it gives you a certain perspective on, say, affirmative action. If you’re supposed to forget about context...
Anyway I’m rambling. I have been meaning to write a top-level post about it all, but it’s a bit intimidating given the high quality of posts in general and I’ve been really busy. Probably in a couple of weeks I will have more time and hopefully get around to it.