Political Correctness

[chopiabin]

What value do you think PC has for Western culture?

I personally think that, while it is well-intentioned, it has gotten to the point where it has set limits on thought.

I'm specifically reminded of the case of a Harvard Administrator who was severely criticized for noting that there were fewer female mathmeticians than male mathmenticians and suggesting that men and women have different intellectual strengths.

He was called a sexist, but I think that is ridiculously unfair. If it is a fact that there are fewer female mathmeticians, are we supposed to pretend it's not just to remain within the bounds of political correctness?

[wishful thinker]

Maybe just fewer women want to become mathematicians, rather than can be mathematicians?

Maybe they'd rather be pianists?  Or cooks or artists (all of which are mathematical skills) 

[chopiabin]

In that case, why do fewer women want  to become mathmeticians?

Notice also that there are fewer famous female pianists than male pianists.....