Hypatia of Alexandria
We stand on the shoulders of giants, male giants; who stand on the heads of women, female giants… No library named after Hypatia, but her legacy is everywhere else: Hypatia of Alexandria Hypatia, daughter of Theon, the last head librarian of the great Library of Alexandria, was a prominent 4th-century,
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To my mind Aristotle and Descartes stand out as outliers rising, sharp and steep, above the baseline of the ethics, reach, scope, innovation, integrity, and enlightenment of western abstract, philosophical thought… * though, not in a good way… Aristotle Trusted ethos, authority (his own) over observation. * Women have fewer teeth…(married
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Female Evolution Preface I suffer from ADS - Asymmetry Derangement Syndrome; the condition of being unable to ignore power imbalances wherever, whenever and however they manifest; a veritable mote, thorn, nay spear, in the eye of my perceptions. It is triggered by every manifestation, and without implying any equivalence across