Space Travel Is Patriarchy And Therefore Bad
Or put another way,
The patriarchal race to colonise Mars is just another example of male entitlement. The presumed right to use and abuse something and then walk away to conquer something new is a hallmark of colonialism.
No, really. It says so here. The author, Marcie Bianco, is quite adamant on this point. One might almost say feverish:
The desire to colonise [space] — to have unquestioned, unchallenged and automatic access to something, to any type of body, and to use it at will — is a patriarchal one… It is the same instinctual and cultural force that teaches men that everything — and everyone — in their line of vision is theirs for the taking. You know, just like walking up to a woman and grabbing her by the pussy.
Apparently, and for reasons that aren’t shared, exploring space is not about ambition, curiosity or survival, or even a hope of distant profit; it’s all about “gendered power structures” and “men giving up on the planet they have all but destroyed.”
Naturally, Ms Bianco has a degree in Women’s Studies and has taught “social justice courses” at Rutgers University and John Jay College.
Update, via the comments:
It’s odd how articles of this kind, by self-declared feminists, seem determined to, as it were, erase and marginalise the choices and agency of other, more accomplished women. Are we to believe that Gwynne Shotwell, the President of SpaceX, is a mere dupe of The Patriarchy? According to Ms Bianco, our “queer public intellectual,” yes.
And what about these ladies here? Are their minds not their own? And has anyone told them this, to their faces? I wonder how that would go down. But this is a standard pattern for dogmatic feminism. Just as Ms Bianco acknowledges only “the menz” who complain about her writing and its laughable conceits, while ignoring the numerous women who also find her article insulting, incoherent and absurd.
And so a question comes to mind. If you were a young woman in search of role models, who might be more likely to inspire? Carolyn Porco, a planetary scientist who worked on the ground-breaking Voyager missions and was Head of Imaging Science for Cassini, and who speaks enthusiastically about exploring – and colonising – other planets? Or Marcie Bianco, a third-rate scold with a Women’s Studies degree?
Answers on a postcard, please.
Do you mean “on the Golgafrincham B Ark”?
In an ark or not in an ark. All the same to me. One of these days, Alice…one of these days…
CORRECTION (Feb. 21, 2018, 12:00 p.m. ET): An earlier version of this article misstated the name of a mannequin recently launched into space by SpaceX. The mannequin is called Starman, not Spaceman.
She was too stupid and slapdash to get the name of the thing she was moaning about correct. This basic error makes me question her academic credibility.
This basic error makes me question her academic credibility.
As if the Women’s Studies degree didn’t already.
“If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.”
— Camille Paglia
That’s what this jealous cow took away from lunch with Buzz effing Aldrin, who walked on the moon.
It’s odd how articles of this kind, by self-declared feminists, seem determined to, as it were, erase and marginalise the choices and agency of other, more accomplished women. According to Ms Bianco, our self-declared “public intellectual,” SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is a mere dupe of the patriarchy. As, presumably, are all the other female astronauts, astronomers and engineers linked in this thread. Apparently, their minds are not their own. (I wonder if anyone has told them this, to their faces. I wonder how that would go down.)
But this is a standard pattern for dogmatic feminism. Just as Ms Bianco acknowledges only “the menz” who complain about her writing and its laughable conceits, while ignoring the numerous women who also find her article insulting, incoherent and absurd.
It’s the feminist way.
According to Ms Bianco, our self-declared “public intellectual,” SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is a mere dupe of the patriarchy. As, presumably, are all the other female astronauts, astronomers and engineers linked in this thread. Apparently, their minds are not their own. (I wonder if anyone has told them this, to their faces. I wonder how that would go down.)
That.
That’s what this jealous cow took away from lunch with Buzz effing Aldrin, who walked on the moon.
A question comes to mind. If you were a young woman in search of role models, who might be more likely to inspire? Carolyn Porco, a planetary scientist who worked on the ground-breaking Voyager missions and was Head of Imaging Science for Cassini, and who speaks enthusiastically about exploring – and colonising – other planets? Or Marcie Bianco, a third-rate scold with a Women’s Studies degree?
And so a question comes to mind. If you were a young woman in search of role models, who might be more likely to inspire? Carolyn Porco, a planetary scientist who worked on the ground-breaking Voyager missions and was Head of Imaging Science for Cassini, and who speaks enthusiastically about exploring – and colonising – other planets? Or Marcie Bianco, a third-rate scold with a Women’s Studies degree?
LOL. Burn.
>>The Devil Girl From Mars.
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>I must find this movie! It looks hilariously bad.
Hilariously good, you surely mean?
Hilariously good, you surely mean?
She’s rocking that cape. I’m a little envious.
…while ignoring the numerous women who also find her article insulting, incoherent and absurd.
Not so fast there, you overlooked this Deep Thought™ of hers:
…who might be more likely to inspire? Carolyn Porco, a planetary scientist…Or Marcie Bianco, a third-rate scold with a Women’s Studies degree?
Alas, given the relative numbers, it appears to be the latter.
It seems to me to be a general rule that racism/ sexism activists are motivated by their feelings of inadequacy when faced with the acheivements of men in general, and white men in particular. Science and Engineering are hard and you won’t find many women or non-white people who genuinely work in the technical side of those fields, rather than just management or HR, who complain about racism or sexism.
To be honest, this is just another attempt by the mediocrities who inhabit the racism/ sexism industries to guilt others into giving them money or well paid non-jobs in the ‘equality and diversity’ departments of major organisations.
p.s I’m prepared to chip in a tenner to the feminist space expedition to the surface of the Sun.
Everything is about “power structures” with these people. There is not a single institution in Western society that is there to serve its stated role, apparently, rather than the cynical exercise of power for its own sake. And they wonder why they get called “cultural Marxists”…
Shotwell is a wonderful name for someone who launches rockets.
There is not a single institution in Western society that is there to serve its stated role, apparently, rather than the cynical exercise of power for its own sake.
Which leads, again, to the question, “What is the proper, righteously feminine course of action?” As with virtually all of these people, Ms. Bianco–a perfect name for a closet white supremacist, BTW–is long on denunciation and short of proposed solutions to the “problem” she identifies. It’s as if there is a but a single essay ranting against “The Patriarchy” floating about which contains blanks into which these harridans place random subjects, like “space exploration” or “British Leyland” or “baseball” or “bratwurst” or “belly-button lint” and wait for the applause of Gender Studies majors world-wide.
The reward system in Women’s Studies is predicated entirely on finding sexism and patriarchal oppression in everything. The more obscure the connection, the louder the applause. Being the first to denounce the sexism in something makes you a rock star.
Here’s a fun game for a minute or two:
Do a google search for, “_______ is sexist.”
Any noun or verb will do. It’s amazing what pops up. Some feminist has already blown the whistle on it. Some violation has already occurred.
Almost everything known to the human race has somehow been tainted by men.
I’m prepared to chip in a tenner to the feminist space expedition to the surface of the Sun.
Hey, if they go at night, they should have no problem, right? At least that’s what an old Blonde joke says.
p.s I’m prepared to chip in a tenner to the feminist space expedition to the surface of the Sun.
Oh hell, I’ll do better than that. I’ll pay to fly any one of these American (sorry other westerners, it gets complicated otherwise) feminist or race-baiting a55holes to whatever country they think does life better, but they must relinquish/renounce their citizenship, have their names put on a State Department watch/no re-entry list, and make an open promise never to return. Hell, I’ll even fly in another POC or woman so long as I get to pick which one.
There’s a starpyrsyn waiting for us in the sky. Xe says xe’d like to meet us, but… we’re all patriarchal and insufficiently queer. Xe thinks xe’d be triggered by our minds.
I would observe that this particular hysteria dovetails near- perfectly with the “first woman to be raped in space has already been born” hysteria from a while back. A matched set of final frontier phobias.
The desire to colonise [space]… is… just like walking up to a woman and grabbing her by the pussy.
We used to only let the bright one teach our kids.
bright ones
aarrgh
Why is it the best advertisements for feminism are women who aren’t feminists, and the worst advertisement for feminism are feminists?
Same reason as nude beaches, I reckon…
Incidentally, Carolyn Porco is a fine-looking woman:
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I watch space science documentaries just in the hope that she might appear. Just like I have learned a hell of a lot about archaeology as a side efeect of hunting out documentaries featuring Bettany Hughes
And no David, this is not an opportunity to torture us with a picture of Ms Bianco. I can just imagine …
Incidentally, Carolyn Porco is a fine-looking woman
I think I first noticed her while watching the BBC’s excellent 1999 mini-series, The Planets. Though I suspect we may have been impressed by her for slightly different reasons.
This showed up at Ace and I showed it to my wife. Discussion ensued. I showed her this:
Bianco has an undergraduate degree in Government from Harvard (cum laude); a MSt in Women’s Studies from the University of Oxford (Hertford College); and both a MA and a PhD in English Literature from Rutgers University.
I sense my odds of getting laid tonight have diminished considerably. Funny how that is. Funny ha-ha or funny peculiar depends on one’s perspective. Fortunately I’m old enough and liberal enough to see it both ways.
Answers on a postcard, please.
How about a postcard from Mars?
The desire to colonise [space]… is… just like walking up to a woman and grabbing her by the pussy.
Why is it the best advertisements for feminism are women who aren’t feminists, and the worst advertisement for feminism are feminists?
Possibly because feminism tends to attract a high concentration of obnoxious personalities. Much higher, it seems, than chance alone would allow. And if you’re the kind of person who wants to spend your time scolding people, sounding paranoid, and feeling righteous about all that petty resentment you harbour, then feminism is a near-perfect vehicle, as we’ve seen here many times. It’s also quite handy if you need to feel intellectually superior but don’t actually have the appetite or wherewithal for autonomous mental activity. Instead, you can regurgitate jargon, begged questions and preposterous lies, while those around you nod.
In short.
Mags – Brianna Wu needs feminism because he was born John Walker Flynt.
Gwynne Shotwell is the daughter of a Brain Surgeon.
Brain Science and Rocket Surgery do exist!
“Climate denial and misogyny seem to go together sadly.”
Also being a big smelly poo-poo-head.
“Any noun or verb will do. It’s amazing what pops up. Some feminist has already blown the whistle on it. Some violation has already occurred.”
Rule 34(a): If it exists, someone has denounced it as both sexist and racist. No exceptions.
Am I the only one to see the irony of the brain-dead bimbo posting her drivel on a site called “Think”?
“That’s awesome! Is that from Spaceballs?
Flesh Gordon, 1974.”
Would that happen to be the appallingly sexist film with the Rape-Robots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te9SFeFVKo8
Well I never…
PS. Apologies for being so really late to this shindig….
Not to mention the disgusting Penisaurus, like I just have…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCe5TlVduvY
Top-flight stop-motion…. Just like the real thing.