I've been looking. I see a lot of people saying the madness is over but I'll still get in trouble for saying sexual selection is real in an essay and have to work hard to be completely orthodox to repair the damage.
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I wouldn't say it's over. I think it's beginning to change. A lot of the nutbag profs don't have tenure so it's much easier to get them out.
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I'm writing a thing about this at the moment. There is much grumbling against the extremist postmodernists as outdated but much obliviousness to the extent to which constructivist ideas & assumptions of patriarchy & women's oppression have been internalised.
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Are there such things? I'd love see some - I'm getting quite depressed following
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Yes, but it's usually quite obscure and not in gender studies per se. In my field, history, you can find essays like Negotiating Patriarchy which looks at power balances in history in a reasonable, evidence-based way.
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Glad that at least some exists, but rather disheartening to learn that it's so rare (and obscure). I also wonder if those researchers get grief from 'real' gender studies academics?
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Much of the work is obscure generally and builds on faulty premises but there is good stuff in there. The highly theoretical stuff is the problem. The more evidence-based stuff is good but has to negotiate it.
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Well... You guys have the contact... Just saying.
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We have the contact? With what?
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Send to pitch@quillette.com. I'd be interested to read it. Pitch it to me at helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com, if you like. I promise that if it is well-argued & well-evidenced, I'll put it forward for publication even if I disagree with it.
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