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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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And I'm guessing you have recent, relevant experience that you're basing this on, and certainly not some right-wing nonsense you read somewhere?