A contract simply doesn’t mean what it used to, I guess.

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Right. Your professional accomplishments aren’t significant enough to merit mentioning in your obit. Mine aren’t either. So the possible contents of your obit or mine are not really relevant when we’re discussing the obit of an extremely accomplished scientist.

No, it 100% is not ‘all this is.’

Yes, absolutely I take umbrage.

Her kids didn’t write the obit. This was a public obituary for a prestigious scientist who had just died. Find me a similar obit for a male scientist- they don’t exist and the unconscious intention is to both undermine her accomplishments and to assure readers that she was a ‘real woman’ not some humorless ball…

As a former journalist, I can tell you that there is a reason why the first sentence of a story is called the lede (or lead). It’s because that’s where you put the information you consider the most important. That’s where the phrase “burying the lede” comes from—and that’s what this obit does.

Here’s the 19th and 20th paragraphs of Hedy Lamarr’s NYT obit- the first 18 could be summarized as, she was hot and kind of slutty, but not much of an actress. They then sum up her scientific work inaccurately and incredibly condescendingly, “As the story goes, Miss Lamarr recalled hearing some conversations that had…

No, I don’t think so. Being a homemaker isn’t an easy job, but this woman wasn’t primarily a homemaker. She wasn’t a chef or a cook. She was a scientist. Yet they chose to lead her obituary not with an account of her important scientific contributions, but an account of her famous beef stroganoff.

If you want to be this obtuse, go to town. I won’t stop you. Carry on.

Yes, he shared the memory but the Times chose to lead with it, not giving a thought to the fact that this might not be the way to go when covering the life of a woman scientist who had faced so much sexism over the course of her career. For instance, the University of Manitoba in Canada had refused to let her study…

You just keep letting the point sail over your head, huh?

I think people take umbrage at the fact that for women, reproductive and domestic achievements typically land the lede, while their professional achievements are secondary. This is rarely the case for accomplished men. Their children will be mentioned, naturally, but not as their crowning achievement in life.

This isn’t the local paper. This is the New York Times. Her kids didn’t write it. I have nothing against including their memories in her obituary, and I’m not claiming that any real harm was done here.

A classic-

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