Postmodernism is often not mentioned or denied At post-grad, I could have hugged my prof for saying 'Postmodernism is silly. We won't be doing it.' Sixth months later he penalised me for saying sexual selection is real & suggesting racism best overcome by not obsessing abt race. https://twitter.com/anztav72/status/980860197626417152 …
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This is very much my perception. Few academics admit to being postmodernists or even to denying objective reality or science but if you try bringing it into your work, there is trouble. 'This is conservative' I was told for saying evolutionary psychology is useful.
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Another time, I singlehandedly condemned women to an 'awful beauty myth fate' by saying that men's attraction to young and beautiful women was rooted in evolutionary psychology rather than socially constructed devaluation & objectification of women coz patriarchy.
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Another time, I was told that my claim that hormones play some part in behavioural differences between men & women was false because prof's friend's little boy had both anger management problems & low testosterone problems. Case closed. I despair.
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