No.330974
https://archive.is/6nkHA
The recently published, utterly incomprehensible paper was co-authored by a team of historians at the University of Oregon, and funded via a grant from the National Science Foundation. I hope American taxpayers feel like they got their money's worth. From the abstract:
>Glaciers are key icons of climate change >and global environmental change. However, >the relationships among gender, science, >and glaciers – particularly related to >epistemological questions about the >production of glaciological knowledge – >remain understudied. This paper thus >proposes a feminist glaciology framework >with four key components: 1) knowledge >producers; (2) gendered science and >knowledge; (3) systems of scientific >domination; and (4) alternative >representations of glaciers. Merging feminist >postcolonial science studies and feminist >political ecology, the feminist glaciology >framework generates robust analysis of >gender, power, and epistemologies in >dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby >leading to more just and equitable science >and human-ice interactions.
>Feminist and postcolonial theories enrich >and complement each other by showing how >gender and colonialism are co-constituted, >as well as how both women and indigenous >peoples have been marginalized historically >(Schnabel, 2014). Feminist glaciology builds >from feminist postcolonial science studies, >analyzing not only gender dynamics and >situated knowledges, but also alternative >knowledges and folk glaciologies that are >generally marginalized through colonialism, >imperialism, inequality, unequal power >relations, patriarchy, and the domination of >Western science (Harding, 2009).
Remember, this is a paper about how to feminize a giant hunk of ice.
No.330980
This is to real science what those women shrieking on the BBC was to real music.
No.330991
So now pseudo-scientific feminist / postmodernist theories are cucking real sciences?
JUST
No.330999
The scope of product put out by these lulz-factories just continues to grow.
No.331005
$5 says this was somebody taking the piss or trying to prank people, who then took it srs because they are retarded.
No.331021
>ITT: Anons learn that "eco-feminism" is actually a thing
Covered this in an Environmental Ethics class, it's a hilarious amount of bullshit. It's all about comparing destruction of ecosystems to the oppression of women.
It's all the men's fault, basically.
Thank goodness we only spent two weeks on this shit.
No.331026
>>331021
>only spent two weeks
What a waste of tuition.
No.331028
>>331021
>It's all the white men's fault, basically. *
FTFY anon
No.331031
at least now we know what would happen if historians tried writing papers on climate change. Maybe next the University of Oregon could get some physicists to write about the French revolution.
The best bit is if you pay tax in America you helped fund this research.
No.331038
>>331026
The rest of the class was decent enough, and it was discussion-based so it wasn't like I was being told "this is how it is", just "here's some people who think it's like this, what do you think?" Actually a good way to teach these kinds of courses.
No.331039
>>331031
Actually there has been some writing done on the French Revolution by physicists or other scientists. Since most scientists at the time were nobility, or least in the nobility's good graces, a number of them ended up on the block, like Lavoisier.
No.331044
>>331038
I hear that. There's nothing worse than a professor who's supposed to be teaching you how to think, but refuses to accept any contrary ideas.
No.331048
>trying to ascribe human traits to an innanimate object
>in an actual science paper
>none of them realized the enormity of how ridiculous this is
I hate this country
No.331054
>>331048
The abstract makes it sound to me that they're essentially just complaining that women don't have enough influence in the field, rather than actually saying anything about glaciers themselves.
OP's statement about feminizing the ice was either misunderstanding or a joke.
No.331059
The NSF is to blame here for trusting the UO to not go full retard. Chastise and berate them in any way you can.
No.331064
Oregon, you're taking the legalized grass a little too far. Everybody involved with this was obviously blazed as fuck.
No.331126
>thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.
>human-ice interactions.
No.331152
>>330974
>CIS/CJ major
>working on project on decoupled cyberattacks
>entirely self-funded project, no uni support, no grants
>this is because they won't give me support or grants
>project is being budgeted $2,000
>still fucking doing it because i know it's worth doing
>but this shit
>it gets research support
>it gets a federal grant from the fucking national science foundation
>it's literally nothing but a paper about applying gender studies to glacier studies
>it's practically government-funded nonsense
No.331193
day of the rope when? I can take them ruining my childhood but this is science they fucking up.
No.331197
>We do a lot of modeling and study satellite images, but what if we look at literature, at art, at drawings and recordings of glaciers?
>University of OREGON
>2hrs from Portland
>mfw
No.331240
No.331243
>>330974
>That report linked flooding from a glacial lake with an increase of sexually transmitted infections in women. "I was fascinated by how two seemingly disparate issues could be so intimately linked through glacial ice," Rushing said. "I wanted to know more about the relationship between women and ice, so we pursued the topic from climate-change vulnerability to knowledge."
>Global warming makes women sluts
I don't know about yall, but I'm suddenly concerned.
No.331279
>>331240
THANK YOU BASED SCI-HUB!
No.331318
>>330974
>leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.
>just human-ice interactions
>this actually got published
>mfw
No.331341
is this supposed to be a joke?
No.331352
>>331318
Feminism: Pushing the boundaries of science since 1920.
No.331354
is this supposed to be a joke?
No.331359
>>331021
>Feminizing Glaciers
I'd rather fuck a Glacier then a feminist.
No.331363
>>331354
Sadly, no, Beavis & Butthead… it isn't.
No.331368
>>331352
Thanks for reminding me again the degree I want is fucking stupid and I shouldn't waste my time.
No.331382
>>331368
What degree is that anon?
No.331394
Listen, feminists, you can put lipstick on a glacier, but it is still a cold bitch.
No.331484
This is what happens when you call humanities "Social science" the idiots start thinking they actually are scientists. They don't realise their ideology is just a load of bullshit held up only by the fact that they believe it and if you call them out you're racist/sexist.
No.331493
>>330991
Now?
Did you not read about carbon fibers as homosocial surfaces devaluing feminized materials?
Literally
> carbon fibers are strong, and would be used for limb replacements, potentially on men.
Therefore they are a means for men to interact with one another and not need women, and valuing strength devalues femininity.
More women in STEM
No.331526
>leading to more just and equitable science >and human-ice interactions.
>human-ice interactions
This might literally be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
No.331528
>>331493
So now that women are doing to STEM what they did to psychology I suppose we can start calling STEM pseudoscience too.
We tried to warn you bros. We tried to warn you about mixing women with science.
No.331609
>>331039
>Since most scientists at the time were nobility, or least in the nobility's good graces, a number of them ended up on the block
Fookin' communists.
No.331620
woah
get me off the nightmare ride
No.331641
>>331493
Oh boy, I can't fuckin' wait.
No.331699
>>331528
when will real scientists grow the balls to tell deconstructionists that the shit they're spouting is retarded/
No.331704
>>331699
Those retards own the colleges. Bucking the system is a good way to never get tenure, lose funding, or flat out get fired.
No.331705
the female gender gets dumber by the second.
No.331706
>>331699
Most men in STEM fields are nerds who genuinely don't understand why feminists and progressives act the way they do, and that's why they always end up conceding and giving in to their ridiculous demands.
No.331709
>>331706
it's as if they are actually taking women at their word, instead of realizing that all women always lie.
No.331710
>>331706
Reminds me of that fellow who cried and blubbered like a baby and apologised for his "sexist" t-shirt.
No.331711
>>331710
you mean the guy who landed a space module on a fucking comet?
No.331721
>>331711
Yep, the man who landed a bullet on a slightly bigger bullet.
No.331790
>>331048
At least we're not Europe.
No.331793
>iceberg
>berg
/pol/ is right again
No.331817
>>331793
Legitimately lol'd
No.331831
I literally cannot hold all of the buzzwords in that abstract. They forgot to say "agency" though.
Postmodernism is the cancer single-handedly killing the humanities and social sciences. It used to be Marxism, but now it's this shit. At least Marxism was materialist and (somewhat) internally consistent.
No.331850
>>331709
Yes, they're not usually the most socially adept.
Society has told them to be chivalrous and to trust women, and they don't have social experience to have learned otherwise.
No.332124
Hey look at it from the women's perspectives guys, doing this retarded shit beats trying to get a job.
No.332129
>>331031
Wouldn't be the first time. I cringe every time Dawkins opens his fat gob about theology or philosophy and makes mistakes a first-year student is taught to avoid.
People should stick to their respective fields.
No.332161
>>332129
>>332129
>Wouldn't be the first time. I cringe every time Dawkins opens his fat gob about theology or philosophy and makes mistakes a first-year student is taught to avoid.
>
The main thing first year students are taught to avoid is reality.
Students are fucking idiots.
I know because I used to be one.
No.332177
>>330974
"Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity"
No.333460
>>332161
>The main thing first year students are taught to avoid is reality.
Topkek
No.333483
>>332124
They're welcome to do this retarded shit all day, but they're not welcome to grant money for it.
No.333521
>>331359
Your dick might be too cold for her, then.
No.333895
>>330974
>>331021
>>331152
>>331054
>>331048
That's just horrible.
>>331493
They won't do shit. First company to figure out how to properly use carbon fibers to mimic muscle and mass produce limb implants will be printing money. Not to mention going down in history as the institution that changed the history. They would become another DARPA or IBM.
>>331528
They tried many times, never succeeded. At the end of the day, research institutions that decide to indulge feminists would lose all credibility and risk their core faculty leaving for another institution. That would in turn put a dent in schools funding, and administrators sure wouldn't like that.
Just look what is happening to English educational institutions and businesses. Same thing with California that is also beginning to experience brain drain.
Once the DotCom 2.0 bubble bursts, technology and software sector and schools will have to trim the fat, and the least useful people will be first ones to go.
No.333917
> That report linked flooding from a glacial lake with an increase of sexually transmitted infections in women.
No.333940
>>330974
What would they think of next?
No.334201
>>332177
We need more Sokals.
No.334220
>>333940
don't give them ideas
they can't grasp the concept of satire, not yet
No.334222
this is now a ber/n/ie bro thread
No.334324
>>334201
>>332177
>"…and whether Social Text had exercised appropriate intellectual rigor.
>appropriate intellectual rigor.
Ah Wikipedia, you stand as a beacon of shining light to us all…
No.334331
>>331048
>>trying to ascribe human traits to an innanimate object
isn't that one of traits of autism?
No.334993
No.337231
I-it's just another Sokal Affair, r-right? They'll come out and say it was all j-just a joke!
>U of Oregon
We're doomed.
No.337612
They got paid for this?
In German "the sun" is die Sonne. Die is femyle, therefore the sun is a womyn, therefore we must merge feminist postcolonial astronomy studies with dynamic socio-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and humyn-sun interactions.
I'm a scientist now. Gib monies.
No.337617
Glaciers are phalic and analogies for rape. So at best they are trans women, since women cant rape
No.338338
>>330974
>The long-running reliance on knowledge produced from the perspectives of natural science, the researchers concluded, have marginalized the voices of women and cultures around the world that have lived in the shadow of glaciers.
>Scientific evidence is bad if women and brown people didn't help to find it.
No.338354
>>337612
>*gibbs YUGE federal monies*
Bravo anon, you're a beautiful muslim transgender demi other-kin womyn, and you make us all proud!
>*sheds tears*
No.342040
>>331243
>That report linked flooding from a glacial lake with an increase of sexually transmitted infections in women
You see, that's why we need more woman in academia! Even if male oppressors would notice this link, they would erase it with such uninclusive constructs as 'correlation is not causation' and 'statistical significance'.
No.342116
>>337617
It's okay baby, I'll just put in the tip of the iceberg
No.343417
>>342116
Funnier since the titanic was a ship, thus a woman, thus was raped by that iceburg.
No.343419
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No.343672
>>334331
Feminism has been female autism for quite a while.
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No.345589
>>331279
fuck your image tbh fam
No.345596
>>343672
I would associate it to spoilled child syndrome if nothing else.
Some people just never gotten used being told no their entire lives. So they never stop demanding untill everyone just gets tired of dealing with their shit and tell them to fuck off.
Still they are usefull idiots, they distract the plebs from noticing real issues.
No.345614
>>331699
When they get independent from govermental funding.
As long as the state sponsors universities, they will follow the current political agenda, no matter how determent it is in the long run for them.
No.345638
>>330974
Are schizophrenics writing this shit? I can't tell the difference. It reminds me of pic related. I have this book on my shelf. I've read it cover to cover and I've never understood one single fucking sentence of it. Here's a random excerpt:
>Reducing to dust is this neither a monotheistic oversimplification nor a reduction. It minimally denotes a new process by which a people are liberated from the authorial Whole (the structure, the body, the creation) as it degenerates into dust. Everything that has resided within and has never been active in its original 'outsiding' form will come forth. In dealing with dust, as in dealing with earth and the Middle East, the insider always precedes the outsider in unfolding its exteriority, its radical insurgency and its flight from the authority of the Whole. In releasing latent and dormant agencies in each spore or dust particle, the role of the Outsider is replaced by the Insider. When considering dust, the earth and the Middle East, one must always think of the inside. Parsani's analogy of the Middle East's terminal minority multiplicity, or the rise of minorities ('minority holocaust'), with dust and the extreme way it liberates the outsiders which have already been condensed and crystallized as insiders can be traced through the panorama of 'Reduction to Dust'.
–Cyclonopedia
Makes about as much sense as this fucking paper.
No.345648
>>331026
It's not a waste of tuition at all. It shows us that this is what's being churned out of academia right now.
Anon showed us that we need to start looking into how to stop this mess.
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No.345683
>>345648
Don't bother trying to stop this mess. Let the motherfucker burn. When it's all over we can build on the ashes.
No.345708
>>345648
You can't stop it. we have passed the event horizon. we are a society thats is totally insane.
No.345749
>>345708
Anything is possible anon. JFK and Reagan both pulled the world back from the brink. Maybe Trump can turn even this kind of insanity around–or at least restrain it's rampant growth. Obongo has very obviously been feeding it intentionally.
No.345761
>>345749
Nah…just become the Joker.
No.345789
>>345638
It says that when you smash a rock into pieces, the pieces are "liberated" and no longer have to be a "Whole" rock against their will (poor things). It says that you are always part of something bigger, and you need to smash that bigger thing because, like mineral debris, you'll be able to raise and express yourself in ways that were before impossible (disregard the fact that you also loose many advantages by breaking the societal environment in which you live).
It's pseudo intellectualism in tunnel vision written by someone who has no idea of what "balancing" means.
No.345816
>>345761
Heh. Not sure that would solve the problems that are needing solved however.
:)
>>345789
kekd
No.345928
I really surprised they haven't attacked geology for example. Surely there's a truly man-spreading, virile kind of science.
I mean all these mountains raping of the gentle plains, Big ass tectonic plates crashing into each other and shit with no regards whatsoever for tender continental feefees.
Where's the justice in geology I ask!?