Feds Pay Scientist $700,000 To Determine Glaciers Are Sexist

The federal government has paid a team of scientists from the University of Oregon more than $700,000 to conclude that glaciers - that's right, the ever so slow moving, massive sheets of ice - are sexist.

Dr. Mark Carey and his group were given a total of $709,125 by the National Science Foundation for a five year study entitled "Feminist Glaciology".

A portion of their study reads a follows:

“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."

The paper was published in the January edition of Progress In Human Geography.