Chronicling the ongoing intersectional struggle to liberate women — progressively defined to include the legacy kind and the transgender variety — from the Patriarchy™, one microaggression at a time.
You, as an unreformed Deplorable, might have mistakenly believed “rape culture” to be a phenomenon confined to humanity — or even, in your ignorant naiveté, just to the animal kingdom, like this progressive Karen who tried with limited success to save a female duck from getting raped in a pond in California while screaming at shocked onlookers to help her thwart nature.
Karen freaks out after seeing ducks mate.. 🤦🏻♀️
— Patricia Anderson (@MrsPatriciaA81) June 26, 2025
Well, think again, bigot!
Everything you thought you knew about rape culture is wrong.
Gender goblin and Michigan State University sociology professor stef m. shuster (she refuses to capitalize her name because she’s so avant-garde or whatever) is here to re-educate you.
Male plants, as explored in stef’s groundbreaking new study, which she managed to get published in a bona fide academic journal, actually perpetrate rape culture themselves — as do the authors of biology textbooks that perpetuate “gender stereotypes and myth.”
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To conduct this highly vital research in the public interest, stef and her comrades perused several biology textbooks, picked out the parts they deemed problematic on account of their misogynistic depiction of plant reproduction, and highlighted them for the audience in an attempt to pressure textbook publishers to, in future editions, sacrifice reality at the altar of their delusions.
Via Contexts (emphasis added):
Scientific stories about plant reproduction often draw on gender stereotypes and myth, making such myths appear natural. Based on an analysis of introductory biology textbooks, the authors demonstrate how the authors of these books cast male plants and plant parts as active heroes while portraying their female counterparts as passive, reluctant, or sometimes even deceptive…
Although we often describe plant reproduction in human terms, its biological reality in fact differs dramatically from our own…
However, popular and even scientific accounts of plant reproduction rarely depict the process in this manner. Instead, biology textbook authors describe plant reproduction through a set of habitually repeated stories that reliably draw on conventional gender stereotypes, reflecting those found in mainstream accounts of human reproduction. In doing so, they cast male plants and plant parts as active heroes—delivering, competing, accomplishing—and portray their female counterparts as passive, reluctant, or sometimes even deceptive.
When textbook authors rely on everyday narratives about women and men to explain plant sex, they make myths about gender difference appear inevitable and natural…
These patterns reflect broader systems of power and inequality that we often take for granted as normal or commonsensical. When scientists repeatedly link activity, independence, and success with masculinity, and passivity, dependence, or even failure with femininity, they communicate these gender myths to students, scientific communities, and the public.
Having majored in sociology at Valdosta State University within the vaunted University System of Georgia, I can testify to the fact that the primary function of sociology departments — and all liberal arts colleges in general — is as grooming factories for white boomer lesbians with chest hair and their younger protégés to convert young co-eds into swearing off men forever and becoming softball catchers.
(Another main function of sociology departments, of course, is as taxpayer-funded DEI cash sinks for unimpressive BIPOCs who would otherwise spend their days being surly to customers at the local DMV.)
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In presenting “male plant parts as active” and “violent,” textbook authorities “make uneven power relationships [between the sexes] appear natural,” thereby buttressing rape culture and undermining the feminist agenda.
Continuing:
Textbook authors present male plant parts as active, and sometimes even violent, participants in the fertilization process. In contrast, they depict female parts of the plant as simply waiting patiently for penetration and the pollen to arrive, ignoring the multiple and active roles they actually play in this process. These descriptions echo tired plots about sexual conquest that identify men as pursuers and women as the recipients of their pursuit and eventual penetration…
Just as textbook authors draw on dominant conceptions of masculinity in their descriptions of male plant parts, they also rely upon an idealized and mythical vision of femininity when depicting female plant parts in reproduction. Dominant femininity refers to celebrated ideals of womanhood that reflect broader patterns of gender inequality, making uneven power relationships appear natural and justified in the plant world, too.
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Why stef is not only not in a hard labor/re-education camp herself but is actually still allowed to collect her presumably generous salary at the public’s expense when we were promised that the new administration would be the death knell for DEI, one can only speculate — and hope, as the eternal optimist, for eventual action.
