‘Feminist Geography’ Prof Thinks Tall Buildings are Sexist
“From the physical to the metaphorical, the city is filled with reminders of masculine power”
Did you even know ‘feminist geography’ was a thing? How does one use such knowledge in the real world?
The College Fix reports:
‘Feminist geography’ professor argues tall buildings are sexist
Ever see a guy say goodbye to a shoe? Now a question more suited to 2020: Ever see a professor accuse a building of “toxic masculinity”?
That is precisely Leslie Kern’s specialty, and you can get a good sense of the Mount Allison University professor’s reasoning in a recent Guardian essay on the sexism in … city architecture.
It’s not the first article from a “feminist geography” perspective – indeed, there’s an entire academic journal, Gender, Place & Culture, devoted to the subject. (It’s somewhat credulous.)
But Kern (above) has written a full book on feminist geography, “Feminist City,” which claims that toxic masculinity “is built into the fabric of our urban spaces.” According to the geography and environment faculty page, the associate professor is also program director of Women’s and Gender Studies, and she’s interested in “embodied geographies.”
“From the physical to the metaphorical, the city is filled with reminders of masculine power,” Kern writes in The Guardian. “And yet we rarely talk of the urban landscape as an active participant in gender inequality”:
A building, no matter how phallic, isn’t actually misogynist, is it? Surely a skyscraper isn’t responsible for sexual harassment, the wage gap, or even the glass ceiling, whether it has a literal one up top or not?
And yet even the height and shape of a building reflects “patterns of gender-based discrimination,” she says, citing a female architecture professor who described skyscrapers as “rape” in 1977:
The office tower, [Dolores Hayden] wrote, is one more addition “to the procession of phallic monuments in history – including poles, obelisks, spires, columns and watchtowers”, where architects un-ironically use the language of “base, shaft and tip” while drawing upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating light into the night sky.
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Feminist Geography exists, is real, and is taken seriously by far too many people.
This is where they want to take the whole culture. Objective reality is irrelevant. Everything must be forced to serve the Leftist revolution. Nothing and no one is safe.
And if you point out that geography can’t really be feminist, then obviously you’re just trying to support the patriarchy and must be destroyed!
How about if you just point out that they’re an idiot?
Given the current angst about our past, including about slave owner George Washington, if we tear down the Washington Monument we could get rid of a now doubly offensive edifice.
what the Hell is ‘Feminist Geography’ and how to you get a degree in such BS?
Talk about the true meaning of a BS degree!
She probably also has a phd (Piled higher and deeper) on the subject…
If I want a map of Themyscira, I’ll ask a feminist geographer. If I want a feminist opinion on skyscrapers, I would need to ask either a feminist architect or a feminist civil engineer. This moistened bint is way out of her lane.
Bad case of penis envy.
And if these buildings had 30+ stories underground instead, would that symbolize a rape of Mother Earth? /smh
what an ignorant twit–she definitely has a johnson complex–she knows nothing of architecture/engineering/geology or history
mankind has been reaching for the heavens for thousands of years–though many strategic towers were built with the dual purpose of defense, most of their design and construction was based in the reach for the heavens/see if we can actually build it philosophy
there are temples/monuments/buildings in the world that have been(and will continue to be)standing for thousands of years
perhaps man’s quest for immortality is another impetus for large/tall structures, don’t you know?
suppose the himalayas/andes/rockies are somehow ” phallic symbols ” to her–lord, could not listen to her for more than a couple of minutes, let alone PAY her for the experience
she really needs to be laid properly by some fellow courageous enough to undertake the effort
am not available myself
The clown car keeps getting fuller and fuller. Does The Guardian read any of this tripe before it prints it, or does it just print any stupid thing penned by a leftist?
They’re in competition with the National Enquirer.
Proof that all “studies” programs should be shutdown.
Mountains are sexist. They remind me of boobs. BULLDOZE THEM LEVEL!!!!!!!
Tell that to the Grand Teton mountains. (French for “big boobs.”)
Love those “Grand Tetons”…lol
Maybe we should build tall buildings with two porch-like structure side by side about two-thirds of the way up.
And hang all the building’s wiring from the top.
I’d “Support” building different size “domes”, always in pairs with the obligatory red air traffic warning lights on top as an ode to women to counter all the phalic symbols we patriarchs have “Erected”…
Is it really necessary to point out that “feminist geography” is a branch of (academic) feminism, and not a branch of geography?
Or that “feminist science” in general may be feminist, but no one would reasonably expect it to be any sort of science?
The obvious difference between feminism and science is that science starts with measurable evidence and then looks for theories that can not only explain this evidence but which offer substantial predictive capability. Whereas feminism start with political goals and then looks for effective methods to achieve these goals.
Which is to say, one starts with answers, the other starts with questions.
Although I suppose the nonsense here isn’t as trivially stupid (word games and unsupported assertions) as it appears, as much of the academic feminist apparat presumably would replace real science with “feminist science,” if/when it’s able to do so.
And there’s surely scant evidence that universities have the will or interest in restoring honest scholarship to the center of the university’s mission, let alone limiting the reach of those who would judge all academic disciplines and academicians solely on the basis of whether this-or-that furthers some political cause.
Was even Soviet science this bad? In the USSR there were political officers everywhere, and all too many institutions were captured by apparatchiks, yet even so some produced world-class science.
Do the pyramids in Egypt count?
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