Shoutdowns on campus are down since 2017, thankfully. But the teaching climate has changed; some profs tell me they have stopped teaching content that will upset activist students, such as intelligence. Here's a report from a biologist at Williams:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/self-censorship-campus-bad-science/589969/ …
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I'm fascinated by this intersection. A snail biologist I know gave a talk and someone came up afterwards and said she was offended by the term hermaphroditic.
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Was the offended individual a non-binary gender liquid snail? If not I suppose they have no snail in this fight.
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Perhaps wild type XX and XY are more scientific? The student’s reaction does seem a bit over-the-top. However, I can see how the terms male and female may exclude intersex individuals whose genetics, endocrine function, and phenotype do not match up with either completely.
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XX/YY not in birds (it is a comparative anatomy class).
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That’s terrible- poor you.
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Were they distressed or enraged?
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Cry bullies. Biology is bad when it hurts student's feeelz. Scientists will be the next hate group to be deplatformed. Universities really need to stop caving in to this nonsense or a small minority of idealogical ninnies will be determining the content of medical lectures.
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Scientists will respond robustly. And their response will blow the gender identity BS out of the water.
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