Katherine Timpf:
Not only is fracking destroying the environment — it’s sexist, too.
At least that’s the idea that ecologist/social-justice hero Sandra Steingraber presented to more than 100 students at the University of Pittsburgh on Monday during a lecture titled “Fracking Is a Feminist Issue: Women Confronting Fossil Fuels and Petrochemicals in an Age of Climate Uncertainty.”
“This is a feminist issue because [the chemicals used and released in the fracking process] are largely reproductive toxins,” Steingraber said, according to an article in the Pitt News, the school’s official student newspaper.
“Are we using women and their infants as nonconsenting subjects in an uncontrolled human experiment?” she asked.
But here’s the thing: Regardless of what the actual impacts of fracking may be, designating it as a “feminist issue” makes zero sense — and that’s especially true according to Steingraber’s own beliefs. After all, not only has she claimedthat fracking is linked to several gender-neutral problems (such as asthma and drunk driving), but she’s also claimed it can cause reproductive damage in males, too, such as testicular cancer.
Feminism and sexism is so muddled these days….
Hillary had millions of political swag printed with the slogan, ”Ready for Hillary” on them but her own team went around to media and claimed that they would be sexist if they called her “Hillary!”
@Nanny G: The left can apply any “ism” they feel hasn’t been tried yet to any issue they choose. It doesn’t matter whether or not it has any validity, is weak, transparent or blatantly false; no one EVER holds them accountable. I don’t think liberals even worry about credibility any more, being much more eager to scream and cry about the latest “injustice”.
What thinking person takes them seriously anymore?