Students Cite ‘Apache Attack Helicopter’ as Gender on Survey, Angering Scholars
“reflects characteristics of contemporary far-right or fascist political movements in the U.S.”
This is hilarious, but the people who were angered by it called it fascism. So ridiculous.
The College Fix reports:
Students list ‘Apache attack helicopter’ as gender on ‘engineering culture’ survey, angering scholars
Some students wrote that their gender was “Apache attack helicopter” in response to a survey about “engineering culture,” which prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.
The researchers wrote a paper that described their experiences while working on a survey about LGBT students in STEM in the Summer 2023 edition of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, housed out of Northwestern University.
Titled “Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy: Interesting Malicious Responses to an Online Questionnaire about Transgender Undergraduate Engineering and Computer Science Student Experiences,” the paper reported on “individuals exercising discursive power in their language to target researchers and tamper with data.”
The authors wrote that the “backlash” to the project “reflects characteristics of contemporary far-right or fascist political movements in the U.S., such as the synthesis of antisemitism with anti-Black and anti-feminist rhetorics.”
About 25 percent of the “malicious responses” provided some airplane-related response to gender, including several who specifically identified as an “Apache helicopter.” Identifying as an “attack helicopter” is a meme that goes back to at least 2014.
Other responses included a “V-22 Osprey” and a “F-16 fighter jet.”
Some gender responses appeared to express frustration with the survey, such as “homophobic biggot, yes we exist,” “Cis gender lizard king,” and “F*cking white male.”
Other mocking answers were much more detailed, with responses to the gender prompt that included “Quasi-Demi-poney; bankai-released state queercopter with a hint of faggotdrag lesbian and homosexual upside-down Frappuccino cake” and “on-cookie-cutter cis-furry dragonkin. Don’t judge.”
The scholars had sent the questionnaire link to over 3,000 email addresses associated with “department chairs, program administrators, and faculty at accredited engineering bachelor’s degree-granting institutions,” who could then forward the survey to undergrads.
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Heh. Good for them!
What an asinine survey put out by self-absorbed pompous jackasses.
I am embarrassed for my alma mater.
And, somehow, theological scholars arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin is considered “wasteful” and “irrelevant” and “bad scholastics.”
So gender identification is completely a matter of personal choice except when The Powers That Be don’t like your choices.
But it’s those other guys (sic) who are fascists.
Friends don’t let friends have anything to do with Northwestern.
Whenever some person or form asks my pronouns, I tell them “Royal Highness.” I guess that makes my “gender” Royalty, which should be one of the 200 or so recognized “genders.”
“prompted accusations from the academics that “fascism” is on the rise in America.”
Yawn.