Marcie Bianco: "The Patriarchal Race To Colonize Mars Is Just Another Example Of Male Entitlement"

Wow this is stupid.
   And the reason I harp on such things is that, well, obviously they're not isolated. This bullshit is just a few isolated opinion pieces here and there. It's an extremely influential, wide-ranging intellectual fad. It's one of the most prominent features of the contemporary popular intellectual landscape. Not to mention great swaths of academia. And it's not merely that this fad is wrong on this or that particular point; rather the whole spirit and orientation of the thing is wrong. And not just wrong: stupid. And not just stupid: nuts.

[That link is archived, and didn't work quite right. Here's the normal link.]