According to a
recent article on thecollegefix.com, during a recent online event at Cornell
University, feminist ‘scholars’
discussed their concerns about science being too male, too “hetero,” and too “feto-centric.”
Really. The presentation, titled, “Is Fat Female? Evolution, Feminism, and
Getting the Story Right,” featured scholar ‘Cat’ Bohannon and philosophy
Professor Kate Manne. (Bohannon is the author of the best-selling book “Eve:
How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution.”)
During the Cornell Keynotes webinar,
Bohannon stated: “The male norm is a thing that we are trying to fix from the
ground up right now in biological and biomedical research.” Your trying to fix
the “male norm?” Can’t have that! Anything most males do can’t be right!
To that end, Professor Kate brought up
research that has allegedly been done on elephants’ sexual activities. She
claimed that when male and female elephants mate for the purpose of producing
offspring, “it’s very fast,” yet when the males are alone together for long
periods of time, some will “form these tightly, intimately-bonded relationships
and have penetrative sex for up to an hour.” (I don’t even want to know what
they are penetrating in the latter example, but it can’t be that good if they
can do it for an hour non-stop.) Bohannon went on to aver that “It’s hard to
say whether or not your basic wild elephant is straight,” adding, “Who knows
what sexuality is exactly for animal friends, but animals are very queer.”
Objection! Projection! If animals were
“very queer” there would be no more animals. There would have been a universal
extinction event.
But Bohannon wasn’t satisfied just
grousing about traditional, straight human males, no siree. She also flatly
stated that society has been too “feto-centric,”
or centered on the fetus. The Nutty Professor confessed that she worries about
the “feto-centric view where our babies matter more than our girls.”
Not done yet, Bohannon bemoaned her
belief that society has a poor view of fat, particularly the fat clinging to
women, and claimed that new understandings about the different types and
functions of fat in the body suggest that fat is actually an organ, ergo
removing it via liposuction – or dieting while pregnant — can be harmful to
women and their unborn babies. (Though the latter concern sounds oddly
feto-centric to me.)
Bohannon was apparently asked how one
could avoid “transphobia while centering female bodies,” to which she replied
by saying research should include representative samples of the population in
clinical trials while lamenting that “quite a lot” of clinical trials “continue
to be white.” Moreover, she said researchers should be specifically studying
“transgender females” (biological males).
To recap: males are bad. Straight
males are worse. Babies are bad. Fat can be good. Call me a skeptic, but if most
males were gay, fetuses were disdained and aborted, and the population as a
whole was obese…in short order there wouldn’t be any more people. But
perhaps that’s what leftist academics (are there any other kind?) like Bohannon
want.
If you want my opinion, science isn’t
very scientific anymore. It is more rigid, self-certain, dogmatic, agenda-driven,
and less reliant on the ‘scientific method.’ One might say that science isn’t
what it used to be. But maybe it never was.
What say you, Dr. Fauci?
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