"Women are stupid"

[sakura184]

There was a recent scandal in Japan where it was discovered that the top medical university there had been faking test scores. Basically women had been outperforming men in the tests for years but the university had been altering women's scores so that men received university places instead of women.

Anyway, I was just reading up about another case where 5 Japanese students attacked a female student and the justification of one of the attackers was that "women are stupid"

One of the accused said in court that he had looked down on women because they are “stupid.”

www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/07/02/national/social-issues/japans-gender-problem-human-disaster-says-award-winning-scholar-chizuko-ueno/#.XSZ-bCUo_Dt

I've had a lot of experience of being treated like I was stupid, by both men and women, but mainly by men. It's like I go through life being seen as "a stupid person". But I loved university, because I loved not feeling stupid when I got essay or test results back.
Anyway this idea that women are stupid has definitely affected me.
Only after i discovered feminism did I learn how amazingly unstupid women actually are and how deep of a lie it is to say women are stupid

You mean explaining it. CountFosco is a woman and even if she weren't, it still wasn't "mansplaining".

They totally stole her work.

Of course they did.

The popular narrative is that she was doing some pretty pictures and was too dim to understand what they meant, luckily a passing clever man was able to make good use of them.

The popular narrative is that she was doing some pretty pictures and was too dim to understand what they meant

The popular narrative is bullshit, it's comparable with the famous Daily Mail headline "Oxford housewife wins Nobel" when Dorothy Hodgkin won the prize. It's funny how nonscientists know more about Franklin than Hodgkin though. We all like a tragic romance.

Franklin was a more conscientious scientist than Watson (crystallographers tend to be) and she would have got there. Lots of people were chasing the prize; Pauling published a triple helix predicted structure but he'd not taken into account Chargaff's work on the bases.

And as Lass said, I'm not a man. I am however a biochemist so know more about this than Sakura who didn't even know Franklin's name. So even if I was a man it wouldn't be mansplaining because that would require me to know less about the matter being discussed than the person I was explaining it to.

It is the popular narrative though.