Women's Invertebrate Network

[MsGreying]

yes even the biologists are bonkers.
from their newsletter.

News from outside BMIG:
Women's Invertebrate Network
This new, informal group was set up last year to encourage and support women to study invertebrates. It is holding a field meeting at College Lake Bucks (HP23 5QG) on 25 April and anyone is welcome. Pre-booking via Eventbrite is essential and there is a charge of £5 to cover costs. (With an aim to be as inclusive as possible 'women' in this context are those 'born as or identifying as female'). Contact Sue for more information and a link to book.

I was going to make a joke about the organisers needing to grow a backbone but it’s just too important to make fun of. Depressing.

Spineless though

And depressing

I wonder what our own BoiledBeetle thinks of those spineless creepy-crawlers.

So these people think "woman" means "female"?

Wow. Why don't they accept that women can be male?

I can see why they put 'women' in inverted commas. 😤

With an aim to be as inclusive as possible 'women' in this context are those 'born as or identifying as female'.

They just don't get that an 'inclusive' named group implies 'exclusive of everybody else', to include you have to exclude, otherwise all groups, societies and organisations would have to include the entire human race.

The group 'left-handed people' excludes right-handed people; the group 'primary school age children' excludes secondary school age children. Otherwise they wouldn't be what they say they are.

Using their definition of inclusivity, I hope they accept that animals with backbones who identify as invertebrates are invertebrates.

Where is this fury, can you point it out, please?

The spineless studying the spineless!

FFS 🤦‍♀️ biologists who don’t know the difference between the sexes. They must find reproduction utterly baffling.

Snails are hermaphrodites. So none of this gender nonsense applies in their slow slimy world.

Oh, they know. They just don’t consider it relevant to the higher orders of life. And I’m sure you understand which ‘orders’ of life they consider the higher ones - oddly enough, this is decided on a sex-segregation basis.

We need more women in stem. This lot can study creeps as well as creepy crawlies

yes even the biologists are bonkers.

Oi, NABAB (not all biologists are bonkers)

Someone needs to reply asking if they'll be studying those born as or identifying as spineless.

Still binary though.

I’d ask - why do they need a specific “women’s” network if the membership is “inclusive” and mixed sex? Just go to the regular society meetings with everyone sele - arguably better for career advancement with a larger pool of contacts to meet, probably in better positions of influence…

BUT … if they genuinely think they need a network of this type to benefit women then it really needs to do what it says on the tin.

women in STEM are under represented. In computer science it’s about 17% which equates to x1/3 rate of general population. Males dominate at rates far higher - around x1.7 - but apparently TW are significantly over represented at rates x2 to x10 depending on googled sources. Which means there is absolutely no justification for including them with under represented groups/women just because their overall number is small.

Beggars belief that scientists dont get this or simply just ignore the numbers

I do wonder sometimes if the 'Women's' societies, 'Women' only walks and similar things, particularly those set up recently, are just devised allow the organisations and women who start them to virtue signal. That men who claim to have trans identities were front and centre in their thoughts.

They may be breaking the law. Woman = biological female. Also, as biologists they should know this! Destructive of everything, really.