Women & The Moon (Laura Bassi) What if Mason were the Baker's Daughter?

[alice malice]

In SL Introduction P notes that race prejudice, bias is compounded by
Class in America. And, while he does call American males immature,
fearful of commitment, and while AGTD, the book that was rumored to be
about a female Mathematician does complicate his awkward advance into
feminism (in VL), Pynchon hasn't won over the female reader, and with
good reason. Right? I mean, we can feel, unless we're Wooden, for
Mason here, for Nevil, men of science who are not taken seriously, not
even by their own families, and in Mason the working class boy does
good insecurities move us to admire the man, mad as he is, for his
struggle against class bias, something Dixon also contends with,
though he deals with it, as with most everything else, much better
than his partner....but anyways, females did manage to make it into
the sciences, and Astronomy was a filed they plowed fruitfully, though
many had the silver spoon Mason lacked....and so....what if a Woman
were born to a baker....?

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