Whoa. Thanks for posting this. I hadn't heard about it.
Both the recent Time article and the bioethics op-ed that links to it are good reads. Dr. New is a piece of work. I hope she gets in trouble. However she's also got to be getting close to retirement age (she got a B.A. in 1950, so she has to be pushing 65), so I bet if she gets too much heat she'll just say she was retiring anyway.
But yeah, there are still many conservative young women with very traditional views of gender roles. They'll have no qualms about signing up for a "trial" of dexamethasone even as they scold lesbians, tomboys, and deliberately childfree women for the "choices" they made to be "abnormal", "deviant" or whatever.
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Date: 2010-06-30 11:18 pm (UTC)Both the recent Time article and the bioethics op-ed that links to it are good reads. Dr. New is a piece of work. I hope she gets in trouble. However she's also got to be getting close to retirement age (she got a B.A. in 1950, so she has to be pushing 65), so I bet if she gets too much heat she'll just say she was retiring anyway.
But yeah, there are still many conservative young women with very traditional views of gender roles. They'll have no qualms about signing up for a "trial" of dexamethasone even as they scold lesbians, tomboys, and deliberately childfree women for the "choices" they made to be "abnormal", "deviant" or whatever.