Posted on 07/20/2017 11:46:40 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The SJW's have taken over geography now, too.
Two college geography professors are urging their colleagues not to cite geography research done only by straight white men. Relying on the scholarly efforts of pale males who mate with females perpetuates “white heteromasculinism,” say geographers Carrie Mott of Rutgers University and Daniel Cockayne at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. If “white heteromasculinism” sounds bad, well, that’s because it is.
According to Mott and Cockayne, it’s a “system of oppression” that ignores the scholarly contributions of women and people of color in order to benefit those who are “white, male, able-bodied, economically privileged, heterosexual, and cisgendered.”
Mott and Cockayne have published their joint plea in Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, an online journal devoted to—what else?—“feminist geography.” The two argue that citation—the practice of using footnotes and similar rubrics to credit the ideas and research of other scholars—isn’t so much a safeguard against plagiarism as a “problematic technology that contributes to the reproduction of the white heteromasculinity of geographical thought and scholarship,” according to the abstract for their paper.
Since scholars gain prominence and professional advancement in their field in part because of the number of times their work is cited by other scholars—a “neoliberal” practice, say Mott and Cockayne—good feminist geographers ought to downplay the efforts of white, non-gay, cis-men in their field and practice a kind of footnote affirmative action for members of alleged victim groups: “[C]itation thought conscientiously can also be a feminist and anti-racist technology of resistance that demonstrates engagement with those authors and voices we want to carry forward.” Mott gave an interview to Campus Reform:
“When it is predominantly white, heteronormative males who are cited, this means that the views and knowledge that are represented do not reflect the experience of people from other backgrounds,” she asserted. “When scholars continue to cite only white men on a given topic, they ignore the broader diversity of voices and researchers that are also doing important work on a that topic.”
You might be wondering what geography, which most people associate with map-making and which is supposed to focus on the physical shape of the earth and its human populations, has to do with feminism. But like the rest of the social sciences, the field of geography is now saturated with fashionable leftist ideology and its impenetrable jargon. Course offerings in college geography departments these days consist of bizarre pendulum swings between technical skills and social-justice indoctrination on “climate change,” “capitalism,” and “sustainable agriculture.”
Mott’s geographic specialty is “how resistance movements mobilize to fight against state-sponsored violence and marginalization.”
Cockayne, an “economic geographer,” says his research “is influenced by social theory, including feminist theory, Marx’s writing, political theory, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and queer and affect theory . . . Additionally, Daniel also investigates the relationship between queer theory and software studies, and is engaged in feminist critiques of knowledge production in geography.”
Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography thus seems the perfect outlet for Mott and Cockayne. Other prominently featured articles include: “Racial Microaggressions, Whiteness, and Feminist Therapy,” “Masculinities Under Neoliberalism,” and “The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins.” After all, when you are skewing scholarship in the direction of pure ideology, why not skew the footnote counts as well?
7% of Stem Graduates are Women. Universities will rectify that and even it out 50/50, and we will wind up with Scientist that can read.
Can’t read can’t read. Boy I use FR had a Edit feature.
-PJ
Virginia slutshames others states and must be renamed
Mons Veneris is the only feminine geography I am interested in.
What’s the new name for Lake Titicaca?
Well played, Sir.
Feminist “science” is not science. Feminists do not have a mind that can understand logic, proofs, facts, verification of theories and sanity.
Feminist “science” is hysteria, illogical, unfounded, based on imagination and insane rantings.
Along with Washington DC, and Washington State, named after a white slave owner.
It's way more than 7%
http://www.aicuo.edu/n/images/GOW/Graph-o-Week_STEM%20and%20gender.jpg
Even PBS says so...:^)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/truth-women-stem-careers/
According to feminist geography Florida will have to be cut off.
Try proofreading before you hit the Post button. It works for me. And I’m not as smart as you are.
Cape Cod, too. Maybe even Long Island.
THERE.ARE.FOUR.LIGHTS!!!
American academics live in multi-decade bubble, funded mainly by massive debt from both students and government. They have had many decades to spin their fantasies, and gain approval and status in a closed-loop of like-minded colleagues.
End the debt creation that allows them to survive.
I guess my personal favorite “Squaw Valley” near Tahoe is out.
When they all climb aboard a big jet airliner and take off having insistedmon disabling all white male developed geographical tools I will take them seriously.
A process either follows the scientific method, or not. A hypothesis can either be proven, or disproven, via this method and the gender/race/sexual orientation/ability/whatever qualifier of the person working the problem is completely irrelevant.
If women genuinely wanted to compete on a level playing field with men, Science (or Math, or Engineering) is unquestionably the place to do it.
But, they don't want to compete, they want to subjugate men and be in a dominant role.
Tell ya what sweetie. Produce some research that can be cited and then we’ll talk
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