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That tends to be the common answer I hear, but I usually don't hear why its fake. What makes gender studies fake or unserious?
by kentm 4y ago
That tends to be the common answer I hear, but I usually don't hear why its fake. What makes gender studies fake or unserious?
- Al-Khwarizmi 4y agoThey're ideologically driven. Not so much a field of study as an agenda. Sometimes, when going through academic records of people from certain countries, I see their grades in courses like "Theory and Practice of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" or "Islamic Faith", gender students looks to me like a Western equivalent of those.
- Aunche 4y agoMy (admittedly uninformed) impression of contemporary gender studies is that so long as you reach them conclusion that X gender is a victim (where X isn't cis men), it matters very little what path you take to get there. This is how an obviously joke study [1] got accepted in a relatively prestigious gender studies journal. [1] http://norskk.is/bytta/menn/dog_park.pdf http://norskk.is/bytta/menn/dog_park.pdf
- uoaei 4y agoIt demonstrates a grave lack of faith in humanity writ large to imagine that such a description can be representative of any distinguished academic tradition.
- Aunche 4y agoI'm not saying that gender studies is useless. It has obviously produced many valuable insights in the past, and I'm sure plenty of academics produce high quality scholarship in this field to this day. My point is that it makes little effort to distinguish this high quality scholarship and complete nonsense.
- uoaei 4y agoStating this as some kind of obvious fact on a public forum usually requires some level of personal familiarity on the subject. Otherwise, what you are saying is literally, definitionally, "bullshit".
- Aunche 4y agoI made that qualification to acknowledge that I'm not an expert, but I've read enough on my own to make an informed judgement. Feel free to offer an alternative explanation to how such a comically absurd paper got into a prestigious journal instead of hastily declaring that I'm wrong.
- uoaei 4y ago> My point is that it makes little effort to distinguish this high quality scholarship and complete nonsense. You make such sweeping claims based on a sample size of one. You neglect to account for survivorship bias -- you cannot see all the bullshit papers that were rejected from journals. This all feels obvious to me as issues with your analysis. Where is your intellectual rigor?
- Aunche 4y agoNot a sample size of one. Out of 20 papers they published, 7 got accepted, 6 were rejected, and 7 were still undergoing review. Also, I don't think that paper is that different from the postmodernist literature that I've read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
- nerdponx 4y agoPeople have this weird perception of humanities students that they dick around all day. Some of the hardest-working people I met in school where humanities students. It might be the case that they were working hard on weird esoteric bullshit, but it was hard work nonetheless.