Talk:Feminist technoscience

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There are no ancient extant sources for metal workers other than that recorded in the Bible book of Genesis 4:22.. Tubal-Cain, a male, is recorded to be an artisan of both bronze and iron. This would have been approximately between 4000 and 6000 BC.------- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.212.104.41 (talk) 19:00, 31 March 2014‎ (UTC)[reply]

WTF? Bronze and iron artifacts are very large categories! Just go to any reputable museum, find one of them, and ask about it!

And the Bible is not a "record" of anything. It's a fable, a metaphor. Grow up!

198.228.228.165 (talk) 20:20, 27 June 2014 (UTC)Collin237[reply]

The article states several opinions as facts:

• "[women designed] tools such as the machete, hoe, or sickle,"
  • This directly conflicts with the Hoe (tool) page, which doesn't state a direct inventor or designer.
  • The Hoe article does state an inventor in Sumerian mythology, but Enlil is male.
  • The Machete page does not state an author.
  • The Sickle page indicates that the tool is from prehistory, dating as far back as before the Neolithic era. The gender of the person that invented it cannot be known with the level of certainty asserted in this article.
• "'male machines' replaced 'female wits' as identifiers of modern technology"
  • I'm not sure what this means. It implies that modern machenery is a male invention, and that previous inventions were all female, and that modern machinery is not a good replacement for the preindustrial age. I could be entirely wrong here, but this feels like it is assuming a lot.
• "liberal and Marxist feminist ... considered the technology as neutral and did not pay attention to the symbolic dimension of technoscience"
  • This implies that the liberal and Marxist feminists were wrong, and that technoscience is correct.
• This list is not all-inclusive.

This article also lacks any indication of the relative prominence of opposing views. It is unclear whether it gives undue weight to the pro-feminist movement, since this article is about a feminist topic. However, many of the ideas stated in this article are not widespread, so perhaps it is worth discussing undue weight. From this page, "In articles specifically relating to a minority viewpoint, such views may receive more attention and spaaace. However, these pages should still make appropriate reference to the majority viewpoint wherever relevant and must not represent content strictly from the perspective of the minority view." - Polemic Thoughts (talk) 13:22, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I very much appreciate you coming straight to the talking page rather than editing it out yourself. However, one of the core principles of Wikipdia is to

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I've rewritten a majority of the article, therefore removed the neutrality tag. Corrections to the most above points have either been done, or cited correctly. If anyone would like to add a criticism section to balance out the (feminism focus) of the page, please do so! Otherwise, I will try to add one when I have some spare time. Leinith (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:33, 5 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

This article claimed "the microwave was designed for men who live alone". This directly contradicts both the article on microwave ovens as well as advertisements from the time of the first home microwave ovens. removed. Please refer to "Raytheon Company: The First Sixty Years" ISBN-13: 978-0738537474 for clarification on the origin of the microwave oven.95.44.74.171 (talk) 11:12, 31 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

To those who created this page, you are the sexist pigs who claim to want equality, yet assert "Surperiority." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.69.38.164 (talk) 06:51, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, ad hominem doesn't work very well, especially since there's a policy

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This page appears to rely almost entirely on a single source: Judy Wajcman, TechnoFeminism, 1st ed. Other sources seem to only corroborate some statements in the middle of the article, indicating there is probably a lack of consensus and notability.

Ethanpet113 (talk) 02:16, 5 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Feminist technoscience is not so much a 'fringe theory' as much as it refers to a specific body of thought in critical feminist scholarship. It's notable for criticising the notion that science is 'objective' and suggests instead a more explicitly political mode of governing scientific innovation. For example, funding research that may more directly address social inequalities. Or, notably, ensuring that women were included in trials of various pharmaceuticals. Ellemrei (talk)

Calling mainstream science non-objective IS a fringe theory. 173.79.225.131 (talk) 04:55, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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