Post by snacky on Nov 22, 2014 8:11:03 GMT
paleofuture.gizmodo.com/why-nikola-tesla-is-an-unlikely-hero-to-mens-rights-act-1661132299
I guess someone forgot to tell these "activist" dudes that Tesla was getting up in years (68), impoverished (having lost the benefits of many of his patents during WWI), and probably already a bit demented. In the 1920s Tesla also started hanging around with a future Nazi propagandist, George Viereck.
When I was in college it was not only de rigueur to talk about male hyper-achievement as part of their need to prove that they were still necessary...technology itself became "womb envy" because it was creative/productive, etc. Of course, once cloning is perfected, the opposite is true: who needs women - their specialized biological parts are outdated relics of the past!
I didn't want to deal with the form-filling to read the article - if anyone does, could they explain to me why Tesla, who was supposedly a supporter of eugenics, didn't think eugenics would prevent his nightmare Queen Bee scenario from coming about? If he truly believed the Queen Bee scenario to be the most rational, wouldn't it stand to reason it was also the most "natural", i.e. "Darwin's way"? What was he positing against it? Just that the women who didn't get to be Queen Bee would be unhappy? D'oh - the men who don't get to be pro ball players or guitar heroes are kind of unhappy, too. Having some economic and political status is totally worth all that!
What's even more curious was that growing knowledge of the world had not only uncovered historic matriarchies - living matriarchies were being discovered as well. By this time it was clear that matriarchies weren't "unnatural" - they were a matter of cultural preference. So what is Tesla's beef? Did his Mrs. Kitchen refuse to tie his tie that morning or something? It's not like there were any women waiting in the wings to steal his patents like a number of male "friends" had done over the years. Women weren't threatening Tesla. Women weren't ruling Tesla as far as I can see. He wasn't married or being nagged. Quite the other way around: he seems to have been a rather mean boss to female employees, picking on their weight and making them change clothing if they didn't meet his style standards.
But perhaps that was exactly it. Tesla had been exercising male privilege and not sharing an inch of space. TESLA WAS THE QUEEN BEE! Perhaps women's suffrage gave him a chilling vision of a day in the future when that radically unequal condition would be flipped.
I guess someone forgot to tell these "activist" dudes that Tesla was getting up in years (68), impoverished (having lost the benefits of many of his patents during WWI), and probably already a bit demented. In the 1920s Tesla also started hanging around with a future Nazi propagandist, George Viereck.
When I was in college it was not only de rigueur to talk about male hyper-achievement as part of their need to prove that they were still necessary...technology itself became "womb envy" because it was creative/productive, etc. Of course, once cloning is perfected, the opposite is true: who needs women - their specialized biological parts are outdated relics of the past!
I didn't want to deal with the form-filling to read the article - if anyone does, could they explain to me why Tesla, who was supposedly a supporter of eugenics, didn't think eugenics would prevent his nightmare Queen Bee scenario from coming about? If he truly believed the Queen Bee scenario to be the most rational, wouldn't it stand to reason it was also the most "natural", i.e. "Darwin's way"? What was he positing against it? Just that the women who didn't get to be Queen Bee would be unhappy? D'oh - the men who don't get to be pro ball players or guitar heroes are kind of unhappy, too. Having some economic and political status is totally worth all that!
What's even more curious was that growing knowledge of the world had not only uncovered historic matriarchies - living matriarchies were being discovered as well. By this time it was clear that matriarchies weren't "unnatural" - they were a matter of cultural preference. So what is Tesla's beef? Did his Mrs. Kitchen refuse to tie his tie that morning or something? It's not like there were any women waiting in the wings to steal his patents like a number of male "friends" had done over the years. Women weren't threatening Tesla. Women weren't ruling Tesla as far as I can see. He wasn't married or being nagged. Quite the other way around: he seems to have been a rather mean boss to female employees, picking on their weight and making them change clothing if they didn't meet his style standards.
But perhaps that was exactly it. Tesla had been exercising male privilege and not sharing an inch of space. TESLA WAS THE QUEEN BEE! Perhaps women's suffrage gave him a chilling vision of a day in the future when that radically unequal condition would be flipped.
