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The assault on biology, which was mostly from bat-shit crazy religious right, now is joined by bat-shit crazy left.
What is a contemporary example of the "religious right" assaulting biology?
Every society that has embraced homosexuality on a mass scale has soon after found themselves at the bottom of the food chain.
My concern is not about embracing gays
They tried a few yrs ago to include creationist crap in TX school textbooks. Examples that they tried to introduce are that the fossil record is sketchy, that evolution is “dogma” and an “unproved theory” , and that leading scientists dispute the mechanisms of evolution and the age of the Earth. I do not know if that got into textbooks, but it was a valiant attempt by the Religious Right. Some of more rabid anti-vaccine people are also religious, albeit from fringe religions.
Darwin is spinning in his grave.
not the course description.
It is not a biology person who teaches it.
how can person evaluate and critically analyze something if xe has no education in the field?
Everything that follows relegates to "Fruit of the Bullshit Tree."
For example, Thomas Edison had attended only a few months of school.
curious2 saysFor example, Thomas Edison had attended only a few months of school.
Edison did not re-imagine light bulb in light of queer theory and heterosexist discourse.
That involves re-imagining heterosexuality.
I think you are too non-cynical and kind
has not published a single biology-related article
Within a decade, we will probably see an artificial uterus. That involves re-imagining heterosexuality.
less than half a percent of the population
Most of the demand for new reproductive technology comes from women, especially the growing number who postpone childbirth for various reasons.
Does this mean we can have even more single mothers!
I personally think that re-imagination of evolutionary processes in light of queer theory and heterosexist discursive is the ultimate Fruit of Bullshit
disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature, and also to reimagine evolutionary processes, ecological interactions, and environmental politics in light of queer theory.
Every society that has embraced homosexuality on a mass scale has soon after found themselves at the bottom of the food chain.
Christian Rome prohibited homosexuality, and then declined and fell.
Science fiction
Science fiction writers imagined non-binary reproductive biologies such as two males and a nonsentient female for one example. I read these during my formative years and it didn't harm my heterosexuality but enriched my imagination.
I wonder if that is what the Vatican was thinking when they embraced gay priests?
The Spartans became the most powerful Greek state until the Athenians, and then the Romans, and all three embraced ubiquitous homosexuality.
Automan Empire saysScience fiction
The course in question is most definitely not science, and at best very poor fiction. Questioning currently established understanding of biology because of "heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature" is what I consider being equal to religious right.
Automan Empire saysScience fiction writers imagined non-binary reproductive biologies such as two males and a nonsentient female for one example. I read these during my formative years and it didn't harm my heterosexuality but enriched my imagination.
I really do not care if this or anything else would or would not change your or anyone's else sexuality. What I have problem with is that people with no biology background try to reinvent biology based on their ideological leanings.
dr6B saysmell saysprivately funded
Student loans might not be private
True. I'm against their existence anyways.
There is no shame in beating anyone to death and raping their still-warm asshole for entertainment, dismembering the body and feeding your family and pets with the remains, exactly as the Founding Fathers recommended.
LOL such backwards ignorance. The Spartans became the most powerful Greek state until the Athenians, and then the Romans, and all three embraced ubiquitous homosexuality. The Roman republic had same-sex marriage for centuries, founded the western world, and ruled for 1,000 years. Rome's big mistake was allowing Constantine to impose Christianity, which Nietzsche called slave morality. Christian Rome prohibited homosexuality, and then declined and fell.
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QUEER ECOLOGIES
FALL 2018
This course will address the interdisciplinary constellation of practices that aim, in different ways, to disrupt prevailing heterosexist discursive and institutional articulations of sexuality and nature…
http://professorconfess.blogspot.com/2018/09/college-course-heterosexuality-is-not.html
https://courses.newschool.edu/courses/LCST3875/7681/
Davis explained that queer ecologies is an “interdisciplinary field that examines the relationship between sexuality and nature, thinking beyond the boundaries of assuming that heterosexuality is the norm or standard.”
The field “inquires into the sexual lives of animals, plants, and bacteria—lives that are often much more strange, adaptable, and queer than anything humans do,” she elaborated. “It also seeks to critique how heterosexuality is presumed as natural.”
One example of this, Davis asserted, is how scientists often characterize plants using gender-specific language.
“We still tend to characterize plants that reproduce sexually in heterosexual terms where a male and female plant need to transfer gametes. Although this understanding of plant reproduction is not un-true, it misses the point that in order for these plants to fertilize they also rely on other species, such as bees and wasps,” she argued.
Darwin is spinning in his grave. The assault on biology, which was mostly from bat-shit crazy religious right, now is joined by bat-shit crazy left. Difference though is that MSM who is vocal in criticism of the Right, will ignore the crazies on the Left.