Justice Sociale in Engineering 2: Electric Boogaloo

[John B]

In case you thought the Purdue engineering and science faculties could relax:

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10257

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19378629.2017.1408631

“One of rigor’s purposes is, to put it bluntly, a thinly veiled assertion of white male (hetero)sexuality,” she writes, explaining that rigor “has a historical lineage of being about hardness, stiffness, and erectness; its sexual connotations—and links to masculinity in particular—are undeniable.”

It's eerily reminiscent of Dawkin's mocking of post modernist gibberish - specifically Luce Irigaray's assertion that fluid dynamics is not well understood due to the privileging of "masculine" physics - studying hard, rigid objects.