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sandspar
Seems like there's an entire genre of digging up obscure women in male-dominated fields. It sucks because the sheer predictability of it causes me to question whether these women were truly influential or whether they're just used as props in some sort of ultra modern campaign. Surely many of these women were genuinely influential, and they don't deserve my suspicion. But the way they're trotted out like this practically forces me to be suspicious. I don't like how this game forces me to become suspicious of talented women, nor how it downgrades these women's achievements to "women's achievements", rather than just "achievements". It seems like the only people who win are the campaigners. Would a powerful, intelligent person want her life story to be titled "Overlooked No More", or might such a person be embarrassed by that diminishing characterization?
pfannkuchen
It also paints the past in I think a more mean spirited light than it actually was. Like I think male scientists a long time ago found the idea of women being in the field absurd, like a dog using a computer. If a dog is trying to use a computer you might not help them and you might laugh at them, but it’s not like you would bury the evidence of a dog successfully using a computer, you would probably find it amazing!
sandspar
I think hostility is easier for people to bear than indifference. A narrative of "they kept us down" implies that you're important enough for them to give you attention. Indifference might be especially humiliating when one's self-concept becomes wrapped up in a sense of one's own growing power. "I've been growing and growing and growing, and yet they're still not respecting me?" I think a tiger, viewing itself as powerful, would find it more humiliating to be a pet than to live in a cage.
erez
At first I thought it said "Overcooked no more" and assumed it was another article about another rocker swearing off the drugs, but no, it's another article about a woman who did something along with a dozen or more others but she should be pointed out because she's a woman. At least this is a real thing and not inventive. BTW, did you know the producer of the first Hip-Hop single was a woman? That should be more interesting than this.
chickenchase-r
see: Sister Cordell Jackson... #6 all time best guitarist according to Rolling Stone
sandspar
Rolling Stone's best of guitar lists have always been a joke. They're the type of thing to put Slash at 110 below 90 people you've never heard of. It's like a running gag you'd see on The Simpsons.