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In an effort to show how politically correct nonsense and evil (but I repeat myself) can get through academic peer review and be published, some academics did just that with seven papers. More are partly through the process.
A particularly funny and horrifying case is the Gender Studies journal Affilia. Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf only needed to be translated with wording in the typical style of intersectionality theory, and it passed muster.
Another published paper, considered exemplary scholarship by the journal that published it, contains this whopper: "Dog parks are microcosms where hegemonic masculinist norms governing queering behavior and compulsory heterosexuality can be observed in a cross-species environment."
The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
Now, three academics have submitted twenty spoof manuscripts to journals chosen for respectability in their various disciplines. Seven papers were accepted before the experiment stopped; more are surviving peer review. This new raid on screamingly barmy pseudo-scholarship is the Alan Sokal Opening, weaponised. Like dedicated traceurs in a Parkour-fest, the trio scrambled over the terrain of what they call Grievance Studies. And they dropped fire-crackers. One published paper proposed that dog parks are "rape-condoning spaces." Another, entitled "Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism" reworked, and substantially altered, part of Mein Kampf. The most shocking, (not published, its status is "revise and resubmit") is a "Feminist Approach to Pedagogy." It proposes "experiential reparations" as a corrective for privileged students. These include sitting on the floor, wearing chains, or being purposely spoken over. Reviewers have commented that the authors risk exploiting underprivileged students by burdening them with an expectation to teach about privilege.
Also at WSJ.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 04 2018, @08:26AM (1 child)
Having sixteen men have the hots for you at once is hardly a record that hasn't been broken. Have you ever seen the video for "Living la Viva Loca"?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday October 04 2018, @09:25AM
I regard her as my very closest friend, however I pissed her off so she's not speaking to me just now.
What Ricky Martin sings of - a woman who makes a man feel truly alive - she's just like that: she burns the candle at both ends 24/7/365.
But she is a very troubled woman; it is her very pain that leads her to live such a dazzling life.
Otherwise she would have time to contemplate some of the truly horrible experiences she's had. She once asked that I accompany her to an abortion clinic. She didn't say and I didn't ask but I figured that was because she'd been raped. While she was in with the doctor I ran out to purchase a teddy bear than made it back in time to give it to her as she returned to the waiting room completely overcome with grief.
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