Date: 2007-04-26 16:02 Subject: If only I could enjoy today's entertaining lecture Security: Public Tags: activism, mizzou, women's rights

I'm sitting in Sociology, listening to Wayne Brekhus talk about how differently the egg and the sperm are described in scientific text. Basically, he's trying to prove that the sperm is treated in a "masculine" way in academic writing where the egg is described in a more passive or "feminine" way, suggesting the impact of cultural ideas even in an "objective" field like science.

( Biology textbooks aren't the only place we're lacking equality. )