Oh, Academia: The Best of the Worst of Gender Studies Papers
As self-described rogue feminist and cultural critic Camille Paglia remarked in an interview recently, post structuralism and the “social constructivist” view of gender is so pervasive, it has basically taken over our minds — reshaping and twisting how we view the social and, indeed, material world.
Heat Street could not resist bringing you the best of the worst of Liberal Dogma from academic departments around the world.
All abstracts courtesy of the amazing @RealPeerReview.
- Because ski landscapes are sexist, didn’t you know?
- On the poststructural swipe logic of Tinder:
- That time a triggered communication student blamed Reddit’s toxic technoculture for birthing #GamerGate:
- How white lad banter asserts… hang on, did he really do his field work at Dunkin Donuts?
- That time a vegan scholar was called privileged and wrote a paper about it. The theoretical framework? The “intersectionality” of speciesism, veganism, carnism and whatthef–kisthisism.
- How outbursts of hypermasculine aggression something something game culture something something “victims.”
- How to waste precious research money to tell us we’re basically obsessed with anuses.
- Gender scholars puzzled that female fitness bloggers try to look.. well, feminine.
- Gender is socially constructed, thus robots are the vanguard of post human sexism.
- Because objective science is patriarchal cancer.
- A paper on a bike with pink tires leaning against the wall…
- How Viagra ads are perpetuating hegemonic masculinity and phallocentrism.
- A postmodern scholar on his/her own ethnographic experience as a sex tourist in the Caribbean.
- On Canada’s Rocky Mountains performing their identities as… rock stars.
- Synchronizing menstrual cycles as a form of menstrual solidarity.
- More feminist glaciology.
That’s all folks. Long live human-ice relationships !