Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 07, 2025

Angry, shrill outbursts: 3690   Reasoned conversations: 1 (rounding up)

They would say you’re not keeping up with them. My experience is that they are having imaginary conversations (with me) and then expect me to have been keeping up with that all along.

As I understand it, girls themselves tend to be the biggest problem. They stay away from the science and math classes, even though they’re good at them.

I worked in electronics for over 40 years and the number of women in the field of electronics was significantly higher than when I retired than when I first started, By time I retired the number of men and women in technician and engineering roles was close to 50/50.

Danae, of course (being Danae), is unlikely to admit that because she had no interest in science or math or school in general, she was the problem, not Jeffrey.

Given her history of lack of any sort of sustained effort, this is likely to blow over when it becomes apparent she will have to demonstrate real ability and not constantly be making self-serving excuses.

And no, this is not an anti-female rant. It applies to males as well — usually more so.

With most women the movie is The Twilight Zone

During my late ’80s college career, I saw many copies of a large, horizontal timeline poster by IBM called “Great Men of Science.” Later someone circled the one woman on the poster. And later still someone came out with a smaller poster called “Great Women of Science.”

The ‘08 date on the strip is back. Yesterday’s ’24 was a mistake. Few people write checks anymore, but we still find ways to forget the new year.

I owe my life to two Doctors….

One who realized I had a real problem and convinced the “board” I needed further

evaluation and the other the Doctor who diagnosed the problem and who performed the

seven hour surgery that kept me alive…

Thank you Doctors….

Thank you “Ladies”….

Danae could be Neurosurgeon someday….

Ask a stupid question…

“Why do men who get exposed to radiation get super powers, while women don’t? Bruce Banner got to be the Hulk. All Marie Curie got to be was dead.”

— Philomena Cunk

I had a coworker who was a terrific software engineer. When I first met her, I mistakenly thought she was a secretary. :(

It doesn’t improve with age…

STEM is woke. There is no place for it in the new administration. It’s one of those made up DEI things designed to oppress White American males. /s

She needs to go make him a sandwich.

with the lack of color and a degree of crudeness in the arty i suspect this is a re-run.

Only those who are one dimensional by only playing with baby dolls while growing up. The kind of parents you have can make a huge difference.

Drama queens.

Wake up Danae – don’t blame him just because he’s handy. Catch up!

Danai, leave the strawmen to the right-wing populists.

Flash back to 2008 when Danai cared about such things.

It was 1938. My mom was in college. If someone tried to tell her she could not do something she walked all over them. She took engineering classes that only guys took. Majored in Chemistry. Got a phd in physics. Ran a physics lab in the 50s & 60s. Went to Stanford law school in the early 70s in her late 40s. And still was an absolutely terrific loving Mother & wife.

Yes, Luann & Bernice are pitifull.

That may be true, but most women scientists have to work far harder to get funding for their projects then men. It has improved over the years, but it’s still largely true.

For me, the point here seems to be that ALL men are being lumped into a lump of blind, bigoted, anti-feminist males. There are DEFINITELY many males that have always, do today, and will always, believe that women are inferior beings. HOWEVER, there are just as many men who acknowledge that women are NOT inferior. They don’t get half the attention that the arrogant boorish men do. Too bad—our boys and young men deserve more examples like Jimmy Carter and Michael J. Fox and Dwayne Johnson. . .

I was blessed to attend an all girls high school where math and science courses were an essential part of the curriculum as established by the founding order of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the 1850’s. Although I earned the senior awards for math and science (1970), I was more interested in the social sciences and earned degrees in psychology, special education and counseling.

I like that the talk bubbles are the only thing colorized. It helps put the dialogue up front.

One aspect that, with time, could increase female involvement would be more mentorship of females by females in these fields. Of course that’s not a guarantee, but it might help some see possibilities that are just taken for granted by most males.

Their unpredictability IS one of the many reasons that we guys like them……

And it’s an R rated movie, but the R rating is for ‘Violence’, not….

“In media res”… a useful literary tool, not so much as a conversational gambit.

Women weren’t allowed to be FBI agents until 1972, after Hoover died

Give Danae a crayon and let her color this thing in…..

I doubt she can be a scientist,as she already looks at the world in an upside down fashion—-her sister,on t he other hand….

Getting flashbacks to that Simpsons episode with Lisa trying to “break the gender barrier” in soccer only to be told there’s already numerous female players on the team and she just runs off crying because she can’t be special anymore.

trump wants to make 2 genders the us legal standard – then that turns into women in the workplace wearing pants-voting etc- would not be part of their gender roles so it would be outlawed- and they are taking away jobs that should be done by- as written by men of course welcome to (agenda) 2025

Watch out dude, she may be young but I think it’s her time of the month!!

There always has been since there were women like Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr, and Katherine Johnson and many more

My wife took physics classes in college, she passed with perfect grades, but the professor would only admit that she “was pretty smart… for a girl.”

You and me both brother ! ;-)

I dated a biochemist. She was a little kooky, which I liked. Tall and blonde, which I liked. Into experiments, which I liked. After two weeks, she decided to like someone else. :)

We remained friends for years.

Looks like she’s having an “emotional” outburst but she did knock him down. Males commit most assaults, so is Wiley trying to show that females are catching up?

B.S.

men that are good at STEM are generally not so good at more social skills. Women that are good at STEM generally good at both, and social skills pay better

If there were no women scientists, whom could the male scientists mansplain to?

Girls generally blitz the boys at our final High School exams (the Higher School Certificate) and that includes maths, and physics.

Danae has the hypothesis that she can be whatever she wants and no amount of evidence will dissuade her.

There should be more awareness by the media, the positive role models that are out there.

My mom was the only woman in her science courses in college, my aunt one of 2 women in her math program. I was lucky, Title 9 got me into any high school class I wanted (one of the first girls in both the Auto Tech program (kept my car, older than me, running for all of high school and another few years) and Mechanical Drawing, which helped me visualize all my calculus problems, letting me finish my math requirements my junior year).

I like this batch of comics.