A few years ago, TV celebrity Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University to hand out a prize that’s given each year to a prominent female scientist. As Maddow entered the auditorium, someone overheard her say, “What is up with the dude wall?”
She was referring to a wall covered with portraits of scientists from the university who have won either a Nobel Prize or the Lasker Award, a major medical prize.
“One hundred percent of them are men. It’s probably 30 headshots of 30 men. So it’s imposing,” says Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist with the university and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Vosshall says Maddow’s remark, and the word “dude wall,” crystallized something that had been bothering her for years. As she travels around the country to give lectures and attend conferences at scientific institutions, she constantly encounters lobbies, conference rooms, passageways, and lecture halls that are decorated with portraits of white men.
“It just sends the message, every day when you walk by it, that science consists of old white men,” says Vosshall. “I think every institution needs to go out into the hallway and ask, ‘What kind of message are we sending with these oil portraits and dusty old photographs?'”
She’s now on a committee that’s redesigning that wall of portraits at Rockefeller University, to add more diversity. And this is hardly the only science or medical institution that’s reckoning with its dude wall.
At Yale School of Medicine, for example, one main building’s hallways feature 55 portraits: three women and 52 men. They’re all white.
“I don’t necessarily always have a reaction. But then there are times when you’re having a really bad day — someone says something racist to you, or you’re struggling with feeling like you belong in the space — and then you see all those photos and it kind of reinforces whatever you might have been feeling at the time,” says Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, a medical student at Yale.
Read the rest here: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/25/749886989/academic-science-rethinks-all-too-white-dude-walls-of-honor
“One hundred percent of them are men. It’s probably 30 headshots of 30 men. So it’s imposing,” says Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist with the university and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Yeah, well, that’s just the reality of the history of it. Get over it, snowflake, and get your feminazi mug up there.
And you’re probably only going to get it handed to you because you’ve got an inney and your shekinah based satanic cult wills it so it can further the feminization of males and genocide of white people.
She learned a lot as a child from her mentor “Gerald Weissmann’, I see, and rockenfelder university is more than happy to push this bizarro-world BS.
And that max tiako twink is as racist as they come, because all he can see is his color. His admission to any university is clearly only an affirmative action requirement, judging by his so-called “writing”.
LOL… nice diatribe, Martist.
Thanks, #1:-) I know I left out madcow but where would I stop?! There’s just so many blatant joo-orchestrated propaganda buzzwords, people, institutes and institutions crammed into one article!
I think Maddow’s face is the hardest one to look at on the planet, seconded only by Bolton.
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deal with it madcow. What did you expect a bunch of people from new guniea? Can’t believe this moron has a doctorates from Oxford. They really are just dumbing them up aren’t they?
probably a jew wall
Dedicated to all guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJQTXCYNBM
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I want to go back in time 🙂
So do I, Mary, except for the hairdos.
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