Today in my lab I was learning all about the joys of making a good scientific presentation (fun...). When suddenly the professor, who certainly is no bigot, says something that catches me completely off guard.
He had brought up several power point slides with things going wrong on them when he pulls up one that looks fine to me and asks the class what's wrong with it.
After the standard silence following a science professor's question to the class, he says, "Pink font is offensive! Never use it in your presentations!"
I am left asking myself how a color of all things is offensive to something as (supposedly) objective as science. Clearly pink has a less than subtle feminine implication in our society and so I wonder immediately if this is a feminism issue.
After later prying at the issue, apparently he was yelled at by a grad school professor of his that pink was offensive in science.
WHY? HOW? WHAT!? Does anyone have any idea why this could be even remotely true?
Oddly enough, I have a power point assignment which I have to turn in to him. I was thinking about making the whole thing pink and seeing if he flunks me on the assignment (he wouldn't). Any thoughts?
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