The professor in my feminism course was a particle physicist, so she used quantum mechanics to draw metaphors for social circumstances.
This raises a big red flag. All the analogies I ever heard drawn between fuzzy people issues and quantum mechanics have been wrong and idiotic. The analogy you gave higher up in the thread (women are neither more nor less intelligent than men just like light isn’t a particle or a wave) is also wrong and idiotic. Are you sure your professor was an actual physicist, rather than some kind of “quantum feminist” or “quantum postmodernist”? Cthulhu knows I’ve seen a lot of those on the Net. Sorry about the scornful tone, but there seems to be no other way to get the message across.
This raises a big red flag. All the analogies I ever heard drawn between fuzzy people issues and quantum mechanics have been wrong and idiotic. The analogy you gave higher up in the thread (women are neither more nor less intelligent than men just like light isn’t a particle or a wave) is also wrong and idiotic. Are you sure your professor was an actual physicist, rather than some kind of “quantum feminist” or “quantum postmodernist”? Cthulhu knows I’ve seen a lot of those on the Net. Sorry about the scornful tone, but there seems to be no other way to get the message across.