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On September 14, 2021, two Polish female professors headed to the Great Salt Lake in Utah to marry some brine shrimp in an ecosexual wedding.
Presided over by Bonnie Baxter PhD, a biology professor at Westminster University in nearby Salt Lake City, the two Polish professor brides in clinging wedding dresses approached holding hands and together with the rest of the wedding party which included a sexologist and Elizabeth Stephens, the chair of UC Santa Cruz’s Art Department, who helped create the ‘Ecosexual’ movement, went into the lake to marry the shrimp through an exchange of psychic vows.
As bizarre as the officially titled ‘Cyber Wedding to the Brine Shrimp’ might seem, it involved the collaboration of academics from at least four universities, and sponsorship by the Polish Cultural Institute of New York, which operates under the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
What might seem like mental illness is by now a well-established academic field under the aegis of the environmental ‘posthumanities’ which set out to ‘decolonize’ the study of the planet. Rather than the scientific study of the ocean, ‘blue humanities’ applied the usual ‘studies’ formula to viewing the human relationship to the ocean through a Marxist lens. Blue posthumanities then set out to decenter human beings and to center marine life. Blue feminist posthumanities applied feminism to promote a non-binary sexual relationship with the water.
And that is how you end up with academics and universities holding a brine shrimp wedding.
Assistant Professor Ewelina Jarosz and Assistant Professor Justyna Górowska, the two ‘queer brides’ who married the brine shrimp, founded the ‘hydrosexual’ movement, describing themselves as ‘cyber nymphs’ who are moving the ‘ecosexual’ movement forward using ‘queer and feminist blue posthumanism’. Much of their activism is indistinguishable from pornography.
But it’s also the subject of academic papers including ‘Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities’ in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics which claims to challenge “settler science by exploring the connection between the reproductive system of brine shrimp and the economy, ecology and culture” to “alter white humans’ perceptions and understanding of the brine shrimp.”
The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics solicited “indigenous, anti-colonial, queer, gender and intersectional approaches to marine and coastal sea farming” and feminist approaches for a special issue on Feminist Blue Humanities.
The Journal has an editorial board consisting of two dozen PhDs from as far away as Finland, Oklahoma, India and South Africa under the aegis of the massive German Springer science publishing giant which decided to normalize the idea of a psychic brine shrimp wedding.
Blue Feminism got an early public exposure when a TED Talk about ‘feminist glaciology’ went viral to mass mockery. Despite the ridicule, the submission of parody papers and outrage over a 5-year National Science Foundation grant to the author of “Glaciers, gender, and science: A feminist glaciology framework for global environmental change research”: it’s here and thriving.
Feminist glaciology proposed “merging feminist postcolonial science studies and feminist political ecology, the feminist glaciology framework generates robust analysis of gender, power, and epistemologies in dynamic social-ecological systems, thereby leading to more just and equitable science and human-ice interactions.” It’s easy to dismiss that as mad gibberish, but it really means that glaciology (and all science) must be viewed from a Marxist perspective.
Academia has come to mostly consist of applying Marxist feminist, ‘queer’, anti-colonial and other such forms of discourse to every conceivable subject. Culture now means deconstructing every work of art and literature through the oppressed and oppressor paradigms of Marxism. History, where the infection began, has long since fallen victim to it. The various ‘Studies’ fields then spread their ‘critical readings’ of everything that human beings do.
Much like the brine shrimp wedding, ordinary people only became aware of the corruption of the field when outrageous examples of it broke through the academic wall, such as the claims emerging from American Studies that Americans drink milk because of their racism.
Feminist glaciology and brine shrimp weddings represent the colonization and replacement of actual science with the critical ‘studies’ approach to viewing the entire planet and then the universe as oppressive constructs invented by white male slave owners. And what is at stake is the end of any kind of framework of rational inquiry in favor of woke pseudoscience.
Science pursues objectivity while the woke studies fields frame everything in terms of their unique intersectional perspective. In intersectionality, facts are unimportant and what matters above all else is the place of every participant in the oppressor/oppressed paradigm.
A feminist or ‘queer’ perspective on brine shrimp or the workings of the universe is of far more value than what an old white man like Albert Einstein or a hundred of them had to say. To the Marxist mind, everything is a matter of power relations and nothing can be known except by deconstructing and unlearning all the things that capitalism and the patriarchy had taught us.
When applied to science and mathematics, grievance culture leads to claims that whiteboards perpetuate ‘whiteness’ in physics, empiricism is a construct of ‘whiteness’ and contentions that “the idea of math being culturally neutral because two plus two equals four reeks of white supremacist patriarchy” and that “the very nature of the knowledge and who’s produced it and what has counted as mathematics is itself dominated by whiteness and racism.”
But when science is ‘decolonized’ of all its white male past, what do its new diverse intersectional pioneers with their feminist, queer and anti-colonial perspectives contribute to the sum of human knowledge? Brine shrimp weddings, research about “indigenous knowledge” in the secret advanced sciences of Africa and American Indians, and evolutionary biology papers claiming that ‘racist housing policies’ altered the genetic structure of American ants.
Woke science, like woke religion, woke culture and woke everything, is just wokeness wearing any and every subject as a disguise over its usual activism and freakish tendencies. A feminist lens on science reduces objects and phenomena outside the human spectrum to a crude ‘herstory’ binary in which life-giving forces resist male objectivity and exploitation while a queer lens sexualizes everything even right down to water ‘hydrosexuality’ and brine shrimp.
The brine shrimp cyber-wedding is not an aberration, it is exactly what applying intersectionality to science is meant to produce. Radical activism and deviant sexual posturing doesn’t enrich science: it hijacks science for the benefit of activists who view it as a radical art project.
The Soviet Union mandated that all science must be viewed from an ideological perspective, but the rigid discipline of the totalitarian regime suppressed individualism and the system soon ossified into obligatory quotes from Marx and Lenin rather than anything especially innovative. Without that ideological discipline, Marxism in academia devolves into brine shrimp weddings.
Ecosexuality abundantly expresses the narcissism at the heart of the Left. With no intellectual or ideological discipline, the entire world is rewritten to express the identities of a small group. Science must not only accept that men can become women by just thinking about it, but that even the skies and the oceans express the sexuality of the women who would marry shrimp.
The Revelation of John of Patmos has nothing on these people.
au contraire, mon amí.
Read the Letters to the Seven Curches in Asia, which warns God;s people in each o thoseplces to avoid the various pervrsions rampant in those ancient grek cities. Look into the corrupt and perverse practices in the temples at each one those cities. Not much dierent than the nonsense described here.
By the bye, EVERY WORD in John’s Revelation has come to pass in history, and is recorded in the secular record. Excepting the last stages describing the City o God yet to come. But these warped creatures “marrying” shrimp will not be involved in that.
They have essentially denied God’s plan, true marriage and substitutd a warped sterile antasy.
Not much to worry about, though. these “marriages” are certain to be sterile.. no progeny possible.
Thanks Daniel !!! A topic too hot to handle, goes back to Ancient Greece.
The topic of “psychic” I can comment on from experience, namely persons’ who refuse to comment verbally, demanding “psychic” communication instead. Makes communication difficult, for me at least 🙂
On a tangent, confidence men and tricksters pretend to be psychic using various techniques, reading faces, making inferences from verbal conversation, etc. Ironically this kind of stuff was very popular in the late 1800s in Victorian England. I was exposed to it at a young age and became a skeptic as a result, although also I suspect in very rare cases there is something to it.
Occultism also became popular in Germany, and was incorporated into Nazi philosophy, with disastrous results.
These lunatics seriously marrying brine shrimp – as a consequence of
their Marxist belief that the White man’s (objective scientific) view of
the shrimp must be altered – for their various and sundry and stupid
reasons – seems laughable. Until they get in power. Remember that
Kamala and Biden etal fully supported Marxist perspectives and woke
whacko ideas like transgenders.
If Commie Kamala had won, how long before America might segue in
ensuing years through a “paradigm of oppressed and oppressor”
Marxism on a massive scale?
One is reminded of the killing fields of Cambodia where intellectuals
were murdered and “oppressed” peasants were expected under the
whip of the Khmer Rouge to create a medieval agrarian utopia.
Millions of them wound up starving and murdered instead. Also Mao
in China caused one of the biggest starvation catastrophes in human
history in his murder of “oppressive” intellectuals and forcing peasants
onto government-run rural collectives.
What do university academics marrying shrimp and supported by
many of their Marxist colleagues have to do with individual American
freedom? Everything.
Lysenkoism 21st Century style 🙂
Even Lysenko had more sense than this. Telling Stalin that he advocated “marrying a shrimp” would have put him in the gulag faster than you can say “charlatan”. This who episode is exactly why we need the DOGE boys to clean up government spending on lunatic projects.
Algorithmic Analyst – Perfect example of what Mr. Greenfield
is getting at! And when terror is added to the mix – which
Lysenko did and Marxists invariably do – then everyone becomes
too afraid to say “the emperor has no clothes on”. Lysenko’s
crackpot ideas resulted in famine which killed millions of
people and then Mao adopted those same ideas resulting in the
Great Chinese Famine of 1959 to 1962.
The stupidity of communists is legion, cautionary and involves monumental stupidity. You reminded me of my favorite, because it exposes the tendency for communists to diametrically oppose/ transgress it’s own supposedly intransgressible standards. mao’s cruel genocide of sparrows and the ecological disaster it created contributed vastly in the starvation of his people..
Do you ever get the feeling that you are living in a open air lunatic asylum with the inmates running the show ? Every week I read news articles that proves to me that that the world in getting madder.
Just now I read the the National Health Service in the U.K. That they recognise that there are 21 Genders !!!
I truly give up.
Modern Day Enviromentalism is a form of Insanity Please don’t let your kids to grow up to be a a bunch of Granola Bar Munchers and Tree Hugging screwballs Greta Thunberg is Example of Eco-Insanity at its worse
Academics have too much time on their hands.
not to mention public money…..
It’s really good to know these silly women and the two soy boys wearing the Indiana Jones hats are on top of all the important stuff.
Well, I guess I won’t be sending my kids to Westminster University or UC Santa Cruz…They liked the welding and nurse anesthetist programs at Tri County Community College better. They surely won’t be going to any “Here Comes The Brine” weddings!
Here comes the Brine.
Drinking too much wine…………………………….
UCSC have been a lost causes since the time Angela Davis’ reigned. I believe ol Kamelnose was also involved there, but a bit later on.
Imagine if Marx could reappear today. What would he think after reviewing the history of what his ideas have created; more accurately, destroyed?
Also, as this new Trump team attempts to take-on the Teachers Union and Department of Education, could the new administration require that K-12 classes across the nation teach anti-Marxist curriculum, similar to the series that Hillsdale College provides entitled “Marxism, Socialism and Communism.”?
https://online.hillsdale.edu/courses/promo/marxism-socialism-communism
One would think, that after the zillions spent throughout the Cold War to repel Communism, the US would be interested in teaching its citizenry why it was, and still is, so important.
That’s a good one, what would Marx be doing if he was reincarnated?
In their own passionately held evolutionary science, they are headed for the deep blue sea…never to return! The oppressed shrimp are cheering having finally been freed from this most toxic, feminine matriarchy forcing them into arranged marriages…after all they are shrimp and these so called liberating women are just not their type!
If you have not read the bogus paper that that deals with dog rape at dog parks in Portland that was accepted by a refereed journal , do so. It is truly funny. A dose–> the authors acknowledged they had difficulty determining if a dog being humped had given consent. Publish or perish! Ruff ruff.
Well, it’s a slippery slope. Since the Left is too chickenshit to object when members of Hamas and Hezbollah (their favorite “resistance” movements) marry sheep and goats, how can they oppose feminists marrying brine shrimp?
At least there were no pictures of the brides!
Au contraire, I believe the brides were front and left of center. (Actually they are far left of center.)
One look at the assembly and it is obvious the brine shrimp have little competition from most other species with acute visual or olfactory perception.
Marxism is the worst man made disaster of all time. This nonsense is laughed at and held in contempt in Third World countries. Most worrying is this BS has no influence in Red China.
For a second I thought was reading the Babylon bee or the onion
Leftards and feminists are always wackier than the Babylon Bee or The Onion.
Yes, it does smack of ancient times on Lesbos.;.. What a silly story! good for laughs. These girls are simply crazy.
I apologize for being thick headed and also old fashioned but who married who here? Or don’t we know?
If the brine shrimp had been indigenous native Americans, forced marriages would surely have amounted to colonisation.
Most of us don’t have time to be fantasy people in a fantasy world.
Oh no, not another episode of THE STUPID WHOREDOM OF WOKE LIBERALISM!
Their Lucky to live in a Country where they can prove their totally out of their minds by getting Married to a Brine Shrimp cant wait to see their Kids
I read this insanity to my wife. Her comments were as I expected them to be , and apropos of the lunacy at play here.
Without hesitation, she said, “Those women need to stay in their own lane! How dare they decide who or what a brine shrimp wants to partner with? As a matter of fact, they should be arrested for interspecies psychosexual abuse.”
At the very least, deported for making asses of themselves.
Daniel, just the title gave me pause. However, the photo w/ the bunch of fuglies & soy-boys explained it. Sorta. Your expose is proof positive that woke regressive are sick puppies, in body, mind & spirit.
Thirty plus years ago, my then 6y old daughter & I visited the Antelope Island w/ bison, pronghorn antelope, elk & the tiny brine shrimp. We took a bottle of them home & watched them w/ a magnifying glass. Dried, they are a global delicacy for aquarium fish. A local company on the shore of the GSL makes a billion $$ per annum that way. GSL is yuge (80×50 miles) but shallow – around 10 feet average & surrounded by alkali desert. Only 3 small rivers go in, none out.
All this year, the local media are fearmongering about its disappearance. Of course, human fault. There are gov commissions to save the lake, farmers are donating water to the lake & other green chimeras. Swimming in the lake is cool, though. One cannot drown or sink. It is 5x saltier than the Dead See.
These fat assed white ”women’ would not be in fear of being denied abortion treatment as no man in his right mind would want to shag them.
The two wee soy boys standing behind them want the entire world to be as queer as they are which makes me wonder who do they think built the country they currently live in and the modern world as we know it today.
daniel, i really admire the effort you make explaining the mumbo jumbo of some craziness of part of the “scientific”workers in their own field. these trbes are not looking to develop something else than their narcissistic opinions .
they never influenced somebody else than their similar perturbed tribe members. they have to be left alone within their cohorts without access to the honor of being commented by someone like you. may be you found it amusing, the same i would to in my private office. i wouldn’t never think to make it public like at barnum circus.
as a saying in hebrew “if you dont use it itis going to be dry and eventually fall”
With all my admiration, dan
Fake scholars putting one over on the serious scholars, I assume??