Remember Queen Izabella? She’s been active on twitter (tagline includes the not-at-all misandrist “I block reply guys”). In a reply to Ardila’s existential angst at having more men view his videos than women, Laba offers some concrete solutions. Such as: “a Polymath project, but led by women, in a field with many accomplished women, *moderated* by women”. Not to be a reply guy (and what’s the use, she’d block us anyway), but: WHAT. IS. STOPPING. YOU. ? !
This is the same — unanswered — question PTT asked at the outpour of anguish over the shutting down of AMS blogs: “why not channel all that anger into something more productive — such as, y’know, starting your own math organization, where you can woke out to your hearts’ content?”
Laba actually answers that later:
I’m also thinking about various feminist and anti-racist blogs (some now defunct) where the stated moderation policy was “it’s my website, you are not entitled to my space, and I can kick you out any time I like”. That would obviously not work on any math site where mathematicians feel they are *entitled* to participate. (Eg. any site like arXiv that becomes de facto mandatory to use.) But “you are here at my pleasure” moderation does eliminate a lot of bad faith arguments (“just asking questions” etc) that make our lives unpleasant.
In other words: If a bunch of angry women were to go off and start their own math thing, nobody of import would care to join. So she wants to recruit/compel/shame a bunch of men to start a high-profile project and then hand over the reins to a bunch of angry women.
Update: Instalanche!
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The circle she will not bother trying to square is that males gravitate to, and women avoid, asocial and autistic modes of self development such as watching online lectures, training for math competitions, working alone and posting to geeky internet sites like MathOverflow. Which happen to be precisely the kind of channels through which women could, by impersonal and objective demonstration of talent, overcome the systemic social discrimination that we are told is everywhere keeping them down. Even worse, the successful mathwomen like Laba showed their ability in much the same ways as men, in her case finishing school multiple years ahead of schedule, winning national olympiads, and collaborating on a more or less equal footing with other prodigies who did the same. It’s almost as if there is no alternative female friendly way of building or demonstrating talent, and no major alternative forms of talent that could be rewarded at scale.
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Her CV says she was on that phallocratic nexus, the Putnam competition problem committee.
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Oy. That’s Piper Haron-worthy. Yikes.
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The new guard is, as always, the old guard minus the late imperial decline sense of humor, and with nastier police forces.
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And… a lot less talented?..
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“various feminist and anti-racist blogs (some now defunct)”
Gee, why are they defunct? I have a feeling she’d label me a “just asking questions” reply guy.
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Angry women don’t want to “moderate” other angry women. They want to moderate *you*.
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