I’m on the road for a while and so posts may be a little sporadic, but I couldn’t resist cracking up when I saw this particular article in – of course – The Daily Mail, about a very young academic who received an award for her research into sexual harassment during archaeological digs who got laughed out of the room by her male colleagues:
A young Cambridge University academic, given an award for researching sexual harassment during fieldwork, says she was laughed at for her work by a ‘large group of older men.’
Danielle Bradford, 21, was being honoured at the Marsh Archaeology Awards in London on November 22 when she said she was driven to tears by the laughing in the audience.
‘As I was being introduced, they said ‘she’s been researching sexual harassment in archaeology’, to which a large group of older men laughed. Fully laughed – to the point that the presenter had to say ‘it isn’t funny’.
Ms Bradford is researching sexual misconduct that occurs during archaeological fieldwork.
In case you were wondering, this is what the lady in question looks like:
I mean, she’s not exactly a minger, is she?
Perhaps Ms Bradford was working in the field and did experience an unwanted pass or three from one of her male colleagues. If so, that is unfortunate and deeply unprofessional from said colleague.
That being said… I have some serious doubts that Ms Bradford has ever actually been anywhere near an archaeological dig.
For one thing, she’s obviously greener than snot. She might be some sort of archaeological wunderking, but I have no idea what that sort of person would look like, because the reality is that archaeology is actually a pretty boring field of study – contrary to what you might think from watching, let’s say, Raiders of the Lost Ark:
(I really love that movie, by the way. Which is why I reserve a special and intense dislike for the character of Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory, who absolutely freakin’ RUINED that film for me and everyone else.)
So in all likelihood, Ms Bradford is merely just some jumped-up SJW looking to make a career for herself in Grievance Studies, and has found a home for such nonsense in what used to be one of the greatest universities in the world but is now basically a cucked-out and totally converged trainwreck of an institution.
Consider that Cambridge University used to be home to minds like Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking. It was, and still is, considered THE place to study mathematics and physics. I would know, because I once applied to Cambrdige for their undergraduate degree in mathematics. I wasn’t nearly smart enough to get in, obviously, but what I saw of their mathematics program, the flagship Tripos, showed me that it was easily the most rigourous program in the subject anywhere.
Cambridge was once, rightly, considered the most prestigious university in the world, in multiple fields of study. It is one of the oldest universities in the world and certainly one of the foremost institutions in the Western hierarchy of education.
Now it appears to be merely a decaying wreck onto which SJWs attach themselves like limpets.
Is it possible that Ms Bradford actually experienced some form of sexual harassment in the field? Perhaps.
Is it possible that sexual harassment is a problem in actual field work? I’m certainly willing to consider the possibility. Fact is that when you’ve got people out there in the field digging and scraping and sorting and sifting nothing much more than dirt for ten hours a day, that tends to bring out bad things in people.
And if men take liberties in the field and make unwanted advances toward their female colleagues, that is reprehensible and they deserve to be punished for their stupidity.
But that’s about where my tolerance for such silliness ends.
I am not a gambling man, but I am willing to bet at least $20 that if you actually look at the prevalence of real sexual harassment in the field – as opposed to imaginary harassment, where a chick gets approached by a guy that she finds unattractive and he doesn’t get the hint and keeps pestering her for a date – the actual rate is ridiculously small and thoroughly undeserving of an award given for research into the subject.
I mean, if Ms Bradford happened to be working on a dig in, oh, I dunno, Hamunaptra, Egypt, and the corpse of an Egyptian priest named Imhotep, who had been imprisoned under the sands for 3,000 years for utter blasphemy against the ancient gods, came back to life and tried to smooch her thinking that she was his lost love, Anck-Su-Namun…
… THEN I might be willing to pay attention to her silly bleatings.
But otherwise, I think that laughter is exactly the right response to such a huge waste of time and resources.
An even better response, of course, is to tell a reasonably attractive young lady like Ms Bradford to get back into the kitchen and make sandwiches. It would actually end up being a much better use of her time and she’ll learn some useful skills in the process, some of which will help her get and keep a good man.
That way, the rest of us can get on with our lives without having to worry about non-existent sexual harassment in the rather niche field of archaeology.
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I wouldn't say Cambridge is SJW wreck. I think that student was either attention whoring or just looking to find an easy subject for an assignment.
I know the U. K is a feminist swamp, but having been to two universities in that country I wouldn't say there is a lot of that.
Maybe im wrong in this case because Cambridge is known all over the Ferrari of Universities in terms of popularity and prestige and perhaps they are trying to portray a certain SJW image.
No, Cambridge and Oxford are both definitely going full progtard. They haven't quite reached full-blown SJW convergence yet, but they're both well on their way.
Cambridge University students vote against Remembrance Sunday motion over fears it 'glorifies' war
CAMBRIDGE UNION SOCIETY: Votes to abolish all private schools
Cecil Rhodes statue to remain at Oxford after 'overwhelming support'
Trolled again! Outspoken historian Mary Beard in online row over black Roman soldier
And that's just what I found from 2 minutes of internet searches.
If you watch their Students' Union debates and the guest appearances there by figures from the Right, then you'll realise that the rot has set in quite deep there.
Those two universities used to be considered the absolute best in the world – Cambridge more for sciences, mathematics, economics, and history, and Oxford more for classics, literature, and arts. But now, like Harvard and Yale and other heavily SJW-converged organisations in the USA, both are seeing significant declines in their reputation as the full price of SJW convergence becomes apparent.
Hmm, not a surprise, the article indicates that:
– Her twatter handle is "anthroqveer" (where her "study" is supposedly located)
– Apparently from Seattle
She also has a blog where she claims to be "a queer and disabled woman".
I think she's more likely to be looking for another "woman in comfortable shoes" than a man.
Distinct possibility. Any girl under the age of 25 who is up for a major award for groundbreaking research in her field is either a 5-Sigma genius, or a product of intersectional politics. And since the rate of handing out bullshit awards is many orders of magnitude higher than can be supported by the statistical probability of a six-sigma event, she is likely an intersectional feminist. Given that many intersectional feminists are also queer as a three-dollar bill, it's a safe bet that she's a devotee of Sappho.
Well, damn. Another institution has fallen. I guess the only way is self education or suffer their ways for 3 years until you get that engineering degree.
Five if you go for a Master's degree via a place like Imperial College.
The STEM fields are relatively safe, even now, at places like Oxford, Cambridge, LSE, Warwick, and Imperial – yes, LSE offers multiple degrees in mathematics, I know because I hold one. But even those are becoming converged.
No place is safe unless the SJWs are impaled and/or purged, and explicitly anti-SJW codes of hiring are put in place, along with cancer-fighting antibodies like regular neuterings of the HR and Legal departments of virtually any institution.