Whitney Stark, a feminist affiliated with the University of Arizona, has invented a new "scientific" theory to help create “safer spaces” for “marginalized people." She believes that traditional quantum physics theory not only "has influenced humanity’s understanding of the world, it has also helped lend credence to the ongoing regime of racism, sexism and classism that hurts minorities." What's a feminist to do? Well, she figured that combining "intersectionality and quantum physics” might just fix this oppression.

I can't imagine a better person to improve upon Sir Isaac Newton's work. Here's Stark's bio:

A researcher in culture and gender studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Stark also holds an appointment in women’s and gender studies at the University of Arizona through its Institute for LGBT Studies. She is a member of the Somatechnics Research Network, hosted by UA, whose scholars “reflect on the mutual inextricability of embodiment and technology.”

Now compare her bio to the scientist who was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.  (Trigger warning: this video is apparently a byproduct of the patriarchal assumptions of society since it doesn't mention Newton's oppression of transgenders even once.)

So, what's Stark's beef against Newton? “Newtonian physics,” she writes, has “separated beings” based on their “binary and absolute differences. This structural thinking of individualized separatism with binary and absolute differences as the basis for how the universe works is embedded in many structures of classification." According to The College Fix:

These structures of classification, such as male/female, or living/non-living, are “hierarchical and exploitative” and are thusly “part of the apparatus that enables oppression.”

I think Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit speaks for all of us when he wrote, "That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works."

Image Credit: JD Lasica