Who knew? The race to colonize Mars is ‘patriarchal,’ akin to Columbus’ rape of America

- It’s certainly something you would expect to come out of an “institute for gender research”: The latest leg in the space race — traveling to, and then eventually colonizing, the planet Mars — is the personification of … patriarchy.

So says Marci Bianco, the communications manager of Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research, whose article titled “The patriarchal race to colonize Mars is just another example of male entitlement” is featured — ironically — on the NBC News website’s “Think” section.

Bianco derides the efforts of mega-rich Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Richard Branson (Virgin) to get into space, and makes an all-too predictable jab at President Trump in the process (because, again, patriarchy!):

“It is the same instinctual and cultural force that teaches men that everything — and everyone — in their line of vision is theirs for the taking. You know, just like walking up to a woman and grabbing her by the pussy.”

So overwhelmed with the amorphous academese of gender “theory,” the basics of space exploration and colonization elude Bianco. She refers to Musk’s comments about colonizing other worlds to save humanity as a “Columbusing attitude” (Christopher Columbus), meaning that only “rich white men like himself” will stand to benefit from such.