Post AAXDtpjBGXDBaGP5rU by Furball@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AAXDtpHWvL5sCVT0lM by Furball@spinster.xyz
       2021-08-21T01:27:38.289464Z
       
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       "In her 1983 book, The Death of Nature, the philosopher Carolyn Merchant explains how, since the dawn of western civilization, the male-dominated intelligentsia had imagined the Earth as female, a nurturing mother on one hand and an erratic, occasionally violent woman on the other. As the organic view of the universe gave way to a mechanized one through the scientific revolution, the leading thinkers in Europe saw nature as existing on a lower order, like women are the lesser sex, which could be subdued by masculine machines."🤔 Need to get my hands on that book
       
 (DIR) Post #AAXDtpjBGXDBaGP5rU by Furball@spinster.xyz
       2021-08-21T01:40:04.602415Z
       
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       "As political scientist Carol Cohn details in her 1987 paper “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals,” the Manhattan Project scientists, almost all men, used expressions of male progeny to describe their deadly creation. They hoped for a boy, a working bomb; a girl would have meant a dud. The misogynistic convention carried on in the names of the weapons that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “Little Boy” and “Fat Man.”"Yes good point.