SansPretense

For those who haven’t heard, Sally Fields went on some stupid ass rant when she won an emmy about how “if mothers ruled the world there’d be no goddamn wars” and shit. Well, I brushed it off, being the guy that I am and used to stupid celebrities making stupid comments. I was browsing the blogosphere today and came across Rachel Lucas going apeshit over Sally Fields, so I thought I would share this rant with my loyal readers…all zero of you.

I really agree with her 100%, but she raised some good points that I never thought of before. She points out that it was men that tended to spearhead the creation of new technology and engineering feats. Now, sociologists would probably argue that this is because men were in power and oppressing women. Ms. Lucas disagrees, apparently, and now I’ve thought about it and applying my intense scientific training, I think I agree with her.

What it comes down to is this: Men have more testosterone. More testosterone means men have the very strong, undeniable urge to do stupid shit. Stupid shit leads bad things happening 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time, it leads to great scientific and engineering discoveries. Nearly 99.9% of all fundamental science is driven by the scientist wanting to try something that is most likely going to fail, but is being done for no other reason that “wow, that sounds kinda cool…let’s what happens when we do this…” I.e., the science is driven by men and women wanting to do stupid shit. The more fundamental the science, the more men involved, the stupider and more dangerous the shit they do becomes. Hence, why I am in physics…