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PhD in Feminist Studies Gropes 10,000 Dogs to Study 'Rape Culture' at Dog Parks
PJ Media ^ | June 11, 2018 | Faith Moore

Posted on 06/12/2018 11:16:54 AM PDT by rickmichaels

If you’re not following @RealPeerReview on Twitter, you’re really missing out. The account, run by anonymous moderators, posts real abstracts from far-left-wing researcher papers. The thread they posted last Thursday is pure gold.

The author of the article in question is Helen Wilson, Ph.D. She holds a doctorate in feminist studies and is the lead researcher at the Portland Ungendering Research Initiative. Her paper is entitled, “Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon.” Since that doesn’t actually mean anything, and performativity isn’t even a word, I’ll summarize: She hung around some dogs parks for a year and watched a ton of dogs having sex.

Wilson goes on to say a couple more incomprehensible things like “human geographies” and “geographies of sexuality” and to call dog owners “human companions” before revealing three questions that her article will attempt to answer. Here they are:

1. How do human companions manage, contribute, and respond to violence in dogs?

2. What issues surround queer performativity and human reaction to homosexual sex between and among dogs?

3. Do dogs suffer oppression based upon (perceived) gender?

She then explains that she will apply “Black feminist criminology categories” (to what, I don’t know) and will suggest “practical applications” to disrupt “hegemonic masculinities” and improve access to “emancipatory spaces.” The author then helpfully introduces us to the concept of the “oppressive human with relationship to that of the oppressed dog, which is subject to the often speciesist, typically anthropocentric hegemonic presence of the human subject.”

I feel the need to remind you here that this is a real paper written by a real person who really says things like “speciesist, typically anthropocentric hegemonic presence of the human subject” with a straight face and believes that dogs are oppressed by humans. (Excuse me while I go help my dog with her protest sign.)

Wilson then gets into the highly serious, not at all hilarious details of her research. She begins by telling us that “Throughout this work the word ‘rape’ describes human perceptions of dogs forcefully penetrating other dogs who have given no indication of wish to engage in sexual activity.” Of course, Wilson feels she must acknowledge that “because of my own situatedness, as a human, rather than a dog, I recognize my limitation in being able to determine when an incidence of dog humping qualifies as rape.” (Yup, she just said “dog humping” and “rape” in the same sentence. Also situatedness isn’t a word.)

Okay, so she’s sitting there at the dog park, watching a bunch of dogs getting it on, and trying to figure out which ones are being raped and which ones asked for it. Got it. So, now she tells us how, exactly, she accomplished this: “my approach was to sit or walk around the dog park, observe, take notes, talk with people or inspect dogs, and then inconspicuously leave.” I wasn’t sure, at first what “inspect dogs” meant but Wilson was kind enough to explain that she “closely and respectfully examined the genitals of slightly fewer than ten thousand dogs, being careful not to cause alarm and moving away if any dog appeared uncomfortable.”

So now our pal Wilson is walking around the dog park, sniffing at the genitals of a bunch of dogs, and writing down her findings. (But don’t worry, she was “respectful” and it’s all in the name of science.) Even so, she admits there might be “some relevant margin of error concerning my observations about their gender in some instances.” Not only that, it’s possible she “misgendered” some of the dogs' “human companions” as well. One wonders what she did to ascertain that information.

I have no idea what Wilson’s conclusions from all this were. I don’t even really understand what she was trying to figure out in the first place. All I know is that, if ever I need to be reminded that I’m doing okay in life, I’ll just reflect that some people apparently spend their days watching thousands of dogs having sex and still can’t tell the difference between the male ones and the female ones. On the other hand, when I realize I’ve spent far too much time reading posts from @RealPeerReview, I’ll consider it time well spent.


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1 posted on 06/12/2018 11:16:54 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

Obviously there is no reasoning with these types of people, so we should just drop them out of helicopters instead.


2 posted on 06/12/2018 11:19:16 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: rickmichaels

You just can’t make this kind of s*** up.


3 posted on 06/12/2018 11:19:23 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: rickmichaels

The left will do ANYTHING to get subsidized $%$ for doing nothing and as a bonus do despicable things to children and animals.


4 posted on 06/12/2018 11:20:12 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("We were designed as gardeners, not cubicle rats." (/robroys woman))
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To: rickmichaels

Doctorate in Feminist Studies
Right up there with doctorates in Bigfoot, Astrology, and Alchemy.
Some universities have figured how to rape women in an entirely new and creative fashion.


5 posted on 06/12/2018 11:21:11 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: wardaddy; Salamander

Canine-American ping


6 posted on 06/12/2018 11:22:16 AM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: wardaddy; Salamander

Canine-American ping


7 posted on 06/12/2018 11:22:17 AM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: thoughtomator

Holy Gawd. and I thought the loony leftards cant get any lower on the food chain. And they think we in the right are dangerous?


8 posted on 06/12/2018 11:22:28 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: rickmichaels

Well. Somebody has an offbeat hobby here.

You have to appreciate it when someone can do what she loves, while advancing our scientific knowledge.

/S


9 posted on 06/12/2018 11:22:38 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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To: rickmichaels

You pegged my Perv Meter!

/s


10 posted on 06/12/2018 11:23:39 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: rickmichaels

Counseling or institutionalize? Or, jail?


11 posted on 06/12/2018 11:24:45 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
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To: rickmichaels

Somewhere in Myanmar, there’s a guy digging a ditch and his buddy just told him that women in America get paid big money to watch dogs screw and he said, “You’ve got to be shirting me!”


12 posted on 06/12/2018 11:24:52 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rickmichaels

EVERY IDIOT PROGRAM SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO TELL HOW MUCH TAX MONEY WAS USED


13 posted on 06/12/2018 11:25:30 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: rickmichaels

I think any farm kid would be able to answer her question without too much trouble. Certainly would not take a year.


14 posted on 06/12/2018 11:25:46 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (US out of the UN, UN out of the US)
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To: rickmichaels

Facepalm!


15 posted on 06/12/2018 11:26:09 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rickmichaels
The United States has too much wealth resulting in far too many people with nothing to do with their lives but generate pure crap like this. The country used to be serious because we had big problems like the Civil War, WW I, The Great Depression, WW II as well as things like building roads and bridges, conquering polio, inventing air travel, criss-crossing the land with railroad tracks, developing the automobile, and installing electricity and indoor plumbing to every home in the country. Now we get drek like this every day of the week.

You left off the best accompanying photo ever...


16 posted on 06/12/2018 11:26:15 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rickmichaels

How big is their ‘male studies’ program?


17 posted on 06/12/2018 11:26:30 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: rickmichaels

I’ve started turning Alinsky on libtards posting comments like “You words are so silly that I can’t stop laughing at what you wrote.”

Drives them into a rage every damn time! Trust me, its a lot of fun.

If we all started doing this CW 2 would happen sooner rather than later.


18 posted on 06/12/2018 11:26:35 AM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows what's right and he keeps on coming.)
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To: rickmichaels

Libtards. Cant fail to amaze me on how sick these bastards really are.


19 posted on 06/12/2018 11:26:50 AM PDT by max americana (Fired libtard employees 9 consecutive times at every election since 08'. I hope all liberals die.)
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20 posted on 06/12/2018 11:27:14 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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