This poster appeared on campus over the past week, covering posters of female candidates running in the current Feds election. Most posters have been removed from campus. The posters have provoked response from many female leaders on campus and have sparked outrage amongst students.
- Divyesh Mistry
Staff reporter
Over the past week, unauthorized posters appeared in many UW campus buildings, covering the posters of females running in the current Feds election.
Entitled “The Truth,” the poster has a picture of Marie Curie with a nuclear bomb explosion, with the quotation, “The brightest Woman this Earth ever created was Marie Curie, The Mother of the Nuclear Bomb. You tell me if the plan of Women leading Men is still a good idea!”
While many of these posters have already been removed, their temporary appearance sparked outrage amongst students on campus this week. While some candidates and students have expressed dismay and disgust with the posters, others are taking it as an opportunity to express messages of a positive nature.
“I sincerely hope that other women will not be discouraged to exercise their leadership potential because of these comments,” said candidate for VP education Natalie Cockburn.
As current VP administration and finance, Sarah Cook expressed her feelings about the posters being displayed in buildings across campus.
“Obviously there is still gender inequality in 2011, and it's important for groups like the Women's Centre and the One Waterloo campaign to continue dialogue and education surrounding gender equity,” she said. “Aspiring female leaders should feel they are in an environment where their contributions are judged equally to that of their male counterparts, and that they are valued.”
According to Kristen Leal, candidate for science council, the act was ridiculous. “I’m offended by the whole thing,” she said. “I found one on one of my posters on Monday. It was not a good night.”
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Even IF Curie created the nuclear bomb, it was MEN who decided to use it, 'nuff said.
Marie Curie is still, IIRC, the only person in history to win Nobel prizes in two separate science categories.
If they wanted to blame a woman, Lise Meitner is a much better bet.
In other words, science history fail.
Edited at 2011-02-18 02:10 am (UTC)
Mandatory feminism classes. In grade schools. Now.
What the titshitting fuck. Kind of like what
Did she commission them? Fund them? Develop them? Build them? Decide to use them? Drop them?
Wait, those where men?! Ah, I see.
So, what did she do? She just discovered radio-active elements? Without any intend to weaponize them?
Ah, I see. So I guess whoever invented the wheel is personally responsible for any death caused by a drunk driver.
I mean, that's the least of this poster's problems, but still.
I'd try to make the same kind of poster regarding men, but it'd be too large to hang up anywhere.
Starting with the motherfucking Missions where Franciscan men enslaved and tortured Native American women, men, and children with such pride that we know every godforsaken detail because of the proud records they kept.
DEAR DIARY. TODAY WE BUILT THESE NASTY DORMS TO PUT THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN. MADE SURE THERE WERE STOCKS IN THERE SO WE COULD CONVENIENTLY BIND AND WHIP WOMEN WHENEVER THE MOOD TOOK US.
DEAR DIARY. QUELLE SURPRISE! WOMEN AND CHILDREN DYING AT ASTONISHING RATE.
MUST BE THE WILL OF GOD, IDK.
That's just one group of men in one state in one century.
You could paper from here to the sun and back if you tried to cover every single incident of collective male murder/abuse/enslavement. That's completely leaving out individual crimes, mind you. For that we'd need to get the fucking Oort Cloud involved.
Whoever created it, the educational system has sadly failed them on multiple levels.
WELL I GUESS NOW WE NEED COWS AS LEADERS. OR ELSE...
OR ELSE.
It's so... blatantly stupid I don't know what to do but gawp at it. I certainly hope no one is intimidated by this idiocy. That would make it go from "WTF" to horrible.
Curie's work with radioactive elements, for which she paid with her life, has SAVED more people than it has ever killed in the form of nuclear weapons. Her work led to the discovery that radiation could be used to treat cancer - and radiotherapy has saved millions of lives since.
There is a cancer care charity named after her in the UK.
This poster is just disgusting, as well as being badly researched.