A strange thing keeps happening. Me: We need to make gender studies rigorous, evidence-based & strive for objectivity and universities open to ideological diversity! 100 people: You're wrong because that isn't how they are! They're the opposite!
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“These departments can continue to do what they want to do, but outside of the university system,”
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I think you may have taken this out of context a little. I would rather get my understanding from the authors, reading their article on
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However they my equivocate, they are part of a reactionary movement which wants the legacy of critical theory, poststructuralism, and continental thinking in general out of the universities by whatever means, save a rigorous authentic engagement with these schools of thought.
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How was this not a rigorous engagement with these thoughts?
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It was certainly fairly involved, and getting these paper published was an impressive bit of trolling involving some real fermiliarity of it's subject, but I don't think their mimetic accomplishments constitute "engagement".
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To reproduce is not to understand hence the expression "dumb as a painter", the student who tells their teacher exactly what they want to hear, the analysand who resists the analysis by arriving at the truth too quickly.
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They have criticised their subject from outside it, made a fixed image of it and presented to be ridiculed by the pöbel's common sense. They have not critiqued it, unlike the cutting edge of academia has done for the past two decades, efforts they seem (wilfully?) oblivious to.
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They wrote and published 7 papers in prominent journals within a year. I don’t think it’s fair to say they criticized the subject from outside it. They simply showed that the fields themselves are not being held to rigorous review and appear to be ideologically driven.
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I’m pretty sure that Sandra Harding classifies objectivity as “Male Bias”. It’s going to be very difficult to get Feminist epistemology out of student’s heads & replace it with what they have been told isn’t really objective at all, but just male biased outcomes.
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The fact that you have to reword your statement to gain any traction is the perfect litmus test as to why there is a problem in the first place.
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