Thanks to a $413,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to University of Oregon historian Mark Carey, we all can now read a 15,000-word rant on glaciology from a feminist perspective. Tony Thomas, in The Quadrant, isn't laughing, not because it's not funny but because it's such a waste. Thomas's article reveals some of the hilarity and irrationality of "feminist glaciology," and lots of other feminist "analysis." In it we get introduced to women (or should I say womyn?) writers who … [Read more...]