Erasing Your Ex: Is It Time for a Photo Cleanse?
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Rediscovering Love on My Own Terms
Single Men Who Want More Women
Open Letter To Men Who Want More
For Men Who Love Poly Dating
Progressive Love Applauds Too $hort
Is Love the Most Feared Emotion?
Love Kills Self Love & Self Esteem
Are Nagging & Cheating Equally Damaging?
Why Do We Fall In Love? Is It Healthy?
Why Master Monogamy
Keep those emails coming.
Hope, I am not sure “STEM” people are as separate a group as is often implied. There are a lot of people who get engineering or math degrees but whose careers ultimately involve leadership of lots of other things than pure STEM work. The current CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, for example is was an engineering major (EE), as was his predecessor Jack Welch (chem engineering). (I don’t think anyone ever accused Welch of insufficient Alpha or of lack of success with women!) Many venture capitalists have STEM backgrounds; I’ve known several guys with engineering degrees who became business-to-business sales managers, a job that to be done right requires lots of Alpha AND lots of Beta.
I don’t think there’s any question that much of the media has a negative view of people doing STEM work, probably in part because of their own cluelessness about these fields. This is not new, though…in 1959, General Bernard Schriever, who ran the Air Force missile programs, felt moved to issue the following protest about things that concerned him in the culture:
“In my view it is a national disgrace that the term ‘egghead’ as a synonym for intellectual excellence has become a derogatory expression. Let me tell you that it is the ‘eggheads’ who are saving us–just as it was the ‘eggheads’ who wrote the Constitution of the United States. It is the ‘eggheads’ in the realm of science and technology, in industry, in statecraft, as well as in other fields who form the first line of freedom’s defense.”
Hope
November 20, 2011 at 12:16 PM
How likely is it that any given STEM graduate goes on to become a big name? Probably about as likely as an arts and theater graduate goes on to become a major star. For example this guy went to the same university I did. I saw a lot of arts and theater majors, and attended plays performed by some of them. As an aside, at that same university, the campus was literally divided between the STEM majors (north campus) and arts majors (south campus).
Most people are not going to be huge successes or household names. How many people worked for Microsoft, SUN, Oracle, etc. and helped pioneer the technologies that we use today? How many of those people are actually famous? The culture in general does not venerate all STEM guys, just those who make it big. By that point, they are no longer seen as nerds anyway. They’re “cool.”
Single Men Who Want More Women
Open Letter To Men Who Want More
For Men Who Love Poly Dating
Progressive Love Applauds Too $hort
Is Love the Most Feared Emotion?
Love Kills Self Love & Self Esteem
Are Nagging & Cheating Equally Damaging?
Why Do We Fall In Love? Is It Healthy?
Why Master Monogamy
Keep those emails coming.
Hope, I am not sure “STEM” people are as separate a group as is often implied. There are a lot of people who get engineering or math degrees but whose careers ultimately involve leadership of lots of other things than pure STEM work. The current CEO of GE, Jeff Immelt, for example is was an engineering major (EE), as was his predecessor Jack Welch (chem engineering). (I don’t think anyone ever accused Welch of insufficient Alpha or of lack of success with women!) Many venture capitalists have STEM backgrounds; I’ve known several guys with engineering degrees who became business-to-business sales managers, a job that to be done right requires lots of Alpha AND lots of Beta.
I don’t think there’s any question that much of the media has a negative view of people doing STEM work, probably in part because of their own cluelessness about these fields. This is not new, though…in 1959, General Bernard Schriever, who ran the Air Force missile programs, felt moved to issue the following protest about things that concerned him in the culture:
“In my view it is a national disgrace that the term ‘egghead’ as a synonym for intellectual excellence has become a derogatory expression. Let me tell you that it is the ‘eggheads’ who are saving us–just as it was the ‘eggheads’ who wrote the Constitution of the United States. It is the ‘eggheads’ in the realm of science and technology, in industry, in statecraft, as well as in other fields who form the first line of freedom’s defense.”
Hope
November 20, 2011 at 12:16 PM
How likely is it that any given STEM graduate goes on to become a big name? Probably about as likely as an arts and theater graduate goes on to become a major star. For example this guy went to the same university I did. I saw a lot of arts and theater majors, and attended plays performed by some of them. As an aside, at that same university, the campus was literally divided between the STEM majors (north campus) and arts majors (south campus).
Most people are not going to be huge successes or household names. How many people worked for Microsoft, SUN, Oracle, etc. and helped pioneer the technologies that we use today? How many of those people are actually famous? The culture in general does not venerate all STEM guys, just those who make it big. By that point, they are no longer seen as nerds anyway. They’re “cool.”
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10.12.2023
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10.12.2023