Do what exactly? The parent asked why there’s so many photos of her staring into...

ancillary · 2025-08-02T11:54:07 1754135647

As far as I can tell, some fraction of Quanta articles are as much a profile of the person as an account of the work, so they send out a photographer. The results are similar regardless of gender. Here are similar treatments given to dudes in the past ~year, for example [1, 2, 3].

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematical-thinking-isnt-wh...

[2] https://www.quantamagazine.org/perplexing-the-web-one-probab...

[3] https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-failure-has-made-mathemat...

dang · 2025-08-02T02:23:38 1754101418

Please don't post unsubstantive comments, and especially not shallow genderwar comments.

shutupnerd0000 · 2025-08-02T02:29:55 1754101795

I was just answering the question posed above. I don’t think I’ve broken any rules. It just seems like you’re uncomfortable with my opinion.

The quote in your profile is very ironic right now: “…It follows that the aim of healthy living is not the direct elimination of conflict, which is possible only by forcible suppression of one or other of its antagonistic components, but the toleration of it…”