Week 7 Blog Assignment
In the article, Oreskes describes heroism as something against women acknowledgment in the field of science. She also states, “that heroism is the channeling of women into calculational work” (Oreskes 1996). Heroism is pretty much for male scientist benefit to keep women out of scientist research. She says, “the as an ideology that’s been practically manifest in the history of the field of science” (Oreskes 1996). When it comes up to objectivity, she thinks that it’s a way complete separating everyone from science and just letting them be the only one’s practice science. Oreskes defines objectivity as, “a form of self-sacrifice of personal hopes, the relinquishing of personal preference and the abandonment of expectation” (Oreskes 1996). Objectivity is just another way of control but with way more restrictions as to how can come it and who can’t. She also states, “that it’s an epistemological ideal, to which scientific colleagues can reasonably by the world at large” (Oreskes 1996). Overall it seems that she more so with heroism then objectivity because women can actually be included in science in some form.
Based Oreskes’s ideas I can actually say that I do agree with her. She makes valid points when it comes up to the limitation’s woman scientist are exposed to. At one point it was forbidden for a women to be lab without a male being present. Women are looked at as the help not just for science but for everything because we are looked as weak-links. Oreskes ides also touched based with the film Hidden Figures especially when it comes up to contribution and recognition in science. Even though in the article she talked mostly about genders the film also portrayed racism. Racism play a very huge role in the science field because African Americans have had to work so hard to get where they need to be. This would hit on the objectively as Oreskes informs us about in the article. In the film they keep the African American women in the basement, which is keep them away from the work that’s important.
Then it also hits heroism as well because they allowed them to have just a very small contribution towards science. The fact the scientist were African American women in the film this is a whole different ball game. As Oreskes states that women already have hard to get be in a lab jus imaging being a black woman in science, they had to fight 10x harder to be paid even the slightest attention to because they we not looked at as equals and especially for the color of their skin. The really just tells us the science field is just as worst as the government runs the country more so a dictatorship to keep specific groups of people beneath the “superiors” when in reality they need us to help the system as they think it should.
Oreskes’s ideas inform you that both heroism and objectively was used heavily in Hidden Figures to limit black women capability to higher themselves in the field of science.
