[fhayek]

Yeah, probably. I mean you could start off postulating that thunder and rain are masculine, and that the earth and soil are feminine. I mean there is a certain logic in that. You could then formulate an entire philosophy about man, nature, agriculture around that. You could write volumes about how mother earth is abused by the rapacious vicissitudes of violent weather. You probably would even be praised by the left. But, your givens are wrong. And as such, your whole argument would be nonsense.

[dr_lew]

Don't forget Sandra Harding's notorious phrase, "Newton's rape manual" from The Science Question in Feminism, Winner of the 1987 Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association:

... yes, I have it! Well, the poet did ask, rhetorically addressing the sweet spontaneous earth, "How often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty?"