Some people really need to dig deep to be Offended about stuff. It really is always something
‘Sexist’ Natural History Museums Biased Towards Dead Males
Researchers have accused the world’s leading Natural History Museums – in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Paris and London – of sexist bias.
They discovered this after counting the number of male specimens in the collection and discovering that they outnumber female ones.
Male birds outnumber female birds by 60 per cent to 40 per cent and mammals are 52 per cent male and 48 per cent female.
Although the researchers acknowledge the fairly obvious reason for this – collectors are attracted to “species with showy male traits like colourful plumage and horns†and thus tend to overlook the generally smaller, drabber female ones – they insist that this is an imbalance that needs correcting.
They claim:
 If collections are biased towards one sex, studies may not be representative of the species.
According to the study’s lead dead-animal-counter, quoted in the Manchester Evening News, this ‘bias’ needs ‘improvement.’
Right, right, it’s a bias. Maybe an unconscious one?
Dr Natalie Cooper, of the Natural History Museum, in London, who authored the report, said: “There is a tendency for the people collecting to want to get the largest grizzly bear or the animal with the most impressive horns.â€
The animals were all collected between 1751 and 2018, but things didn’t improve over time.
Dr Cooper added: “Interestingly, we see no improvement. Even recent collections are biased.â€
Damned nature, mostly making the males larger and brighter colored! Ban them!
