Feds Spent $412,930 to Apply Feminist Theories to Study of Glaciers

2016-11-29T16:39:06+00:00

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-perilous-whiteness-of-pumpkins/article32293466/

Vast tracts of the social sciences have gone insane. If you doubt it, I urge you to check out New Real Peer Review, a Twitter feed whose purpose is to expose the absurdity of what passes for scholarly research. It’s run by a small team of anonymous academics who fear their careers will suffer if people know who they are. They have no shortage of material. Their greatest hit to date is a piece claiming that glaciology – the study of glaciers – is misogynist, and that we need to “feminize” it. (Some people thought that paper was a hoax, but sadly it was not.)

It’s no surprise that race and gender studies, along with the other social sciences, are a vast monoculture of left-wing thought. They are relentlessly determined to deny the most basic facts about biology, human nature, sex differences and the sizable influence of genetics in our lives. In their world, even the most basic differences between the sexes are socially constructed. Some scholars even argue that sex segregation in sports is a bad idea. It’s a given that gender (as opposed to sex) is entirely constructed – which means, among other things, that our stubborn persistence in identifying pregnant people as “women,” or people with testicles as “men,” is deeply misinformed.

How does this stuff get published? Because critical thinking has gone out the door. The standard methods of research and inquiry do not apply. In fact, they are widely thought to be sexist and racist, because they’re rooted in white male ways of thinking. Science that built on the foundations of masculine rationality and abstract logic can’t possibly reflect the experience of women and minorities. Therefore, feelings, anecdotes and “lived experience” vastly outweigh what used to be known as “objective truth.”

Why am I so irate about this? One reason is that such work is a discredit to genuine academics and the pursuit of knowledge. Another is that race, gender and oppression studies have metastasized far beyond their little enclaves and spread to many other disciplines, including much of the humanities and parts of the sciences. Some universities have launched feminist biology programs because regular biology is too sexist. No one seems to mind that kids are squandering their time and our resources (to say nothing of their parents’ resources) on rubbish. I believe the damage to the public image of our universities is not inconsiderable – something their administrations might want to ponder in these straitened times.

IronJohnMRA · 2016-11-29T15:39:36+00:00

Fucking waste of money.

2016-11-29T16:22:54+00:00

That is the whole point of identity politics. It gives resources to the offended groups with a great bureaucracy that requires jobs, prices etc. Just being a whatever-group can than carry you through life.

roharareddit · 2016-11-29T17:32:32+00:00

Of all the negative things to come out of the feminist movement rent seeking scumbag behavior has got to be the one of the worst.

RunawayGrain · 2016-11-29T17:59:54+00:00

Uhm, snow falls, compacts into ice, and the weight causes the ice to advance. What the fuck is the feminist version of this? White men steal the ice that women provide and force minorities and transgenders to pull the ice forward?

Can we just please colonize Mars and leave these assholes to each other?

guntermench43 · 2016-11-29T16:13:10+00:00

I can't even.

thalos3D · 2016-11-29T21:55:39+00:00

Just an excuse to throw public money at feminist advocacy groups.

2016-11-29T16:50:38+00:00

You can't make this shit up

feedmecarrots · 2016-11-30T03:57:21+00:00

It never seems to stop. The boondoggles just keep coming. No doubt the feminists wanted to get on the gravy train. Someone should be held to account, starting with the government employee who authorized this.

Senray · 2016-11-29T17:22:11+00:00

Source

v573v · 2016-11-29T20:52:10+00:00

People worked hard for that money and the government taxed them to buy magic beans.

thrway_1000 · 2016-11-29T22:29:56+00:00

https://archive.is/SnkEr

gillesthegreat · 2016-11-30T08:25:39+00:00

Republicans come out with such lists every so often. They're almost always misleading. These things are written to piss people off. Don't fall for it. So in this case, wait for the actual price tag. Yes, any price is too much, but the NSF would not spend 400K on just this.

inspiron3000 · 2016-11-30T14:15:17+00:00

Here's the paper: https://www.scribd.com/doc/302967745/Glaciers-gender-and-science-A-feminist-glaciology-framework-for-global-environmental-change-research

It's not a paper on glaciers but feminism, power and learning (or epistemology, as they call it).
Between the 4 authors, I can't see how they can spend 100K each writing about how they feel glacial studies are anti-feminist.
What requires that much money to create this paper is difficult to see.

FissureKing · 2016-11-29T19:40:21+00:00

Nothing about military spending? Didn't they just admit they couldn't account for a large amount of money?

Title	Feds Spent $412,930 to Apply Feminist Theories to Study of Glaciers
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Date	November 29, 2016 3:23 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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