[Vision2020] Sweater Day Sexism at Simon Frazer University
Kenneth Marcy
kmmos1 at frontier.com
Fri Feb 5 14:55:30 PST 2016
Well, well, perhaps after the Simon Frasierites get done complaining
about the inherent sexism in the video, they will return to its contents
to examine why a professor apparently old enough to have gained tenure
is spending her working hours playing Solitaire on a computer. Is Miss
Pinkham so well and truly over the hill that her abilities are reduced
to mouse-clicking through two-decades-old playing-card software? Or has
she not kept up-to-date on gaming software advances since she was an
undergraduate? Alternatively, is Simon Frasier's computer technology
budget so sparse that it cannot afford machines that can handle more
modern and hardware demanding games?
On the other hand, Miss Pinkham may be a professor of ancient gaming
software. If so, she might e-mail Chad to apply for a graduate school
research assistant position in comparative software studies. With
sufficient grant money, they could build a Beowulf cluster in the extra
space in her long, deep office. The heat emitted from all those
computers operating together would keep her office quite warm, and allow
advanced gaming research studies.
Ken
On 2/5/2016 11:24 AM, Nicholas Gier wrote:
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> Sweater Day Sexism
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> https://youtu.be/kLYjQJr5Je0
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> February 5, 2016
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> By Scott Jasch <https://www.insidehighered.com/users/scott-jaschik>ik
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> At Simon Fraser U, professors were stunned by video university posted
> on its website that suggested female faculty members could be viewed
> as sex objects -- in the name of saving energy.
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