“Feminist researcher invents ‘intersectional quantum physics’ to fight ‘oppression’ of Newton”

Oy veh.  Thanks, I guess, to Nicol Sorenson-Legakis for alerting me to this:

Feminist researcher supports ‘combining intersectionality and quantum physics’

I think that I’m going to write an article about the Thai civil war of 1703-1709 tomorrow.

I know absolutely nothing about Thai history (though I do really like Thai food).  Heck, I don’t even know whether there was ever a Thai civil war.  Nor, if there was, when it happened.  (I made those dates up out whole cloth.)

Apparently, my fixation on “knowing something” about a subject before propounding grand theories regarding it is passé.  I’m a fossil.  A relic.

But, still, I confess that I grow impatient at things like this.  Instead of writing nonsense about trivial “microagressions” and whining about “safe spaces,” these folks might consider devoting that time to, say, volunteering at a soup kitchen or working for an organization that fights human trafficking (I have a suggestion) or raising money to combat child hunger in poor countries (as this organization does), or doing something else that would really contribute to helping with real problems.  Moral preening and nagging is both too easy and, on the whole, without value.