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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Those fields all welcome skepticism and diversity of outlook. Challenging the currently dominant paradigm in medieval history or film studies won’t bring down censure on you.
That’s not the case with gender studies programs, which are essentially activism training. The problem and the goal are prescribed. Scholarship is around reinforcing its established ideology. I can’t think of another field where that’s the case, except maybe some newly-minted sociology programs.
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You're really just saying "I have no idea what gender studies actually are but I believe the conservative talking points about them" in different words.
It's actually quite funny because it's so incredibly counter-factual. If there's one place in the university where people are least likely to just accept pre-prescribed views about the topics at hand, and where extremely different narratives about those topics are taught and accepted side by side, or fought over, it's effin' gender studies
You are much more likely to run into extemely paradigmatic (and less fact-oriented) teaching in more consevative leaning fields like economics for example.