Feminist makes the case for calling Newton's Laws "Newton's Rape Manual". These are the people teaching college students.

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[–]yellow_algebra_31 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Well, I didn't know Newton and Bacon talked about rape and torture metaphors in their work.

Idk, I think there's something to it.

It seems subversive, since Newton and Bacon were people we were all taught to admire and learn from (I certainly did) and this undermines them (like "Santa isn't real!" and "God isn't real!" and all those disturbing videos they tried to show kids on youtube.)

But one must also remember that Europeans were turned against their own women who were keeping their ethnic cultural traditions alive during period of persecution of witches.

I think these topics and ideas are worth discussing. There is probably a way to do it that's not subversive.

[–]yellow_algebra_31 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

For all the talking about how this person undermining the Western tradition is bad, I feel like I'm the only one in this thread actually attempting to hold the conversation to the actual Western standards of logic, reason, and evidence in the conversation here.

Does nobody else here see this? I posted the only comments here attempting to engage with the actual ideas presented in the text.