So the other day some of the fellas over on Chateau Heartiste — one of the internet’s top destinations for racist, misogynist pickup artist wannabes — ran across a little graphic celebrating some of the lesser-known “[w]omen in science that you should know … and probably don’t.”
Apparently offended by the reminder that, yes, women have actually had some influence over history, one of Heartiste’s readers decided to make a graphic similarly celebrating the men of science. But while the original graphic contained pictures of only 12 women, this new graphic featured a vast sea of male faces, as if to rub in just how male dominated the world of science has been, and still is.
Looking at the graphic, Heartiste also thought he spotted another demographic anomaly: a preponderance of white faces. “That’s one pale looking pastiche,” he wrote.
“The Men in Science poster. A Snowvalanche of Whiteness,” agreed one of his commenters,”Bwahahaha.”
Huh. That’s weird. because when I look at the poster I don’t see a lot of white. I mean, if you blow it up a little you can see that the spaces between the various squares are white, but the squares themselves are all sorts of colors. Red. Pink. Black. Brown. Blue. Green.
Are a significant portion of the Men of Science from Mars?
And there’s another odd thing about this not-so-pale pastiche: it’s full of repeating patterns. If you look closely, you’ll discover that this isn’t one vast sea of male faces. It’s a small pond, endlessly repeated.
Specifically, it’s this bit (from the upper left-hand corner) pasted over and over.
Also, when you look closely at these alleged “scientists” they turn out to be real blockheads. Yep, if you zoom in a little further you don’t find an assortment of tiny Einsteins and fig-sized Newtons. You get this:
All hail the founding pixels of science!
Heartiste, you may want to get your eyes checked for bigotry.
Thanks to dashapants for bringing this wondrous graphic and its repeating patterns to my attention.
We can’t embed here, baroncognito – it’s set that way to stop trolls putting gross pics in the comments.
I thought Teh Menz were oppressed and unable to do anything with a directive from a shapely assed irresponsible hamster-wheel brained spermjacking bitch. I did not realize they were able to do science under those heinous, oppressive circumstances. Wow. It’s impressive, really, what they’ve managed to do in spite of all the roadblocks thrust in the way of their gender like so many pert butts and perky tits. Kudos, Dr. Pixel.
Now I’ve seen it all.
Someone posted their losing Tetris screen as TruFax.
That makes sense then.
@BaronCognito, @kittehs:
And we do get photo trolls from time to time, posting really disturbing and graphic images. Been at least 2012 since the last one, though, thank god.
I wanna see a lady scientist wipe the floor with Heartiste in a SCIENCE-OFF.
Is that a thing?
Yeah, I rather thought there’d be a history of them trying that.
Oh, I told Mads what you said about how exhausting it is being Cute all the time, Falconer. She totally understood.
If it isn’t, it should be.
So David I am sure by now you have read the dust up over at ROK about banning men that respond to comments posted by women.
I would come over here and just flame, and write the most provocative stuff. And you never deleted anything I posted, never banned me, never edited me, and often directly addressed the stuff I would post here. So for that you have my respect.
Who would have thought that Maboobz would be the bastion of free speech in the manosphere. Go figure.
This made me guffaw. Well played.
Anyone who’s actually had any interaction with most of the leading figures in the Manosphere?
It makes me imagine him facing off against GLaDOS…
Mark, how have you been? Did you get married after all?
There can never be too many references to The Room!
I just find it funny that so many MRAs are surprised when other MRAs act in unreasonable and controlling ways, because from the outside it’s pretty obvious that shit like that is going to happen.
I think the graphic was designed to cause eye-strain and dizziness in anyone who tried to look at it too closely. Well played, MRAs!!
And I applaud you for actually being candid and self-aware enough to say “I was being a total wanker and you guys were completely reasonable.”
Hidden in that graph is a secret code that translates MRA-speak into logic. Just stare at those pixels long enough and it will all start to make sense. You may want a few glasses of wine to help with the process.
@insanitybytes: I got a good head start with Buttershots before I read this post and it still looks like a pixelated mess. Am I doing something wrong?
The pixels are Carcosa.
If we’re going to look at pixellated or mosaic images, these are more fun:
http://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/black-cat-mosaic-paul-van-scott.jpg
http://www.thecatgallery.com/Funny_cat_pictures/Cat_mosaics/files/cat2678wk_4e.jpg
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2011/194/4/f/cat_mosaic_by_cornejo_sanchez-d3oit6v.jpg
Completely OT, but my sister just sent this pic of her new Furrinato.
I would very much like to cuddle that dog.
That is a very prosh dog.