Identity Politics

Soapyfrog · 2016-02-28T00:46:15.000Z

Since we were talking about McGill University earlier, apparently not quite yet overrun by anti-israel marxists.

gurugeorge · 2016-02-28T07:36:54.000Z

An amusing/horrifying article relevant to the “Zombie Apocalypse has taken over muh academy” angle I’ve been touting.

Malathor · 2016-02-28T18:41:44.000Z

gurugeorge:

An amusing/horrifying article relevant to the “Zombie Apocalypse has taken over muh academy” angle I’ve been touting.

Even more horrifying are the actual peer-reviewed papers the academic Zombie Apocalypse is pumping out. I could cite thousands of examples, but here is a taste. Read it, please:

ucl.ac.uk

holmes-deconstruction-ebhc-06.pdf

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Incendiary_Lemon · 2016-02-28T19:14:25.000Z

Malathor:

Even more horrifying are the actual peer-reviewed papers the academic Zombie Apocalypse is pumping out. I could cite thousands of examples, but here is a taste. Read it, please:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pharmacology/dc-bits/holmes-deconstruction-ebhc-06.pdf

You weren’t joking.

Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and fascism

What useless drivel.

magnet · 2016-02-28T19:53:22.000Z

Malathor:

Even more horrifying are the actual peer-reviewed papers the academic Zombie Apocalypse is pumping out.

Zombie indeed.

This paper was published in 2006.

The journal that published it ceased production in 2013.

You could be shocked by the original Zoe Quinn “Five Guys” tweet, and literally be more up to date.

Malathor · 2016-02-28T20:58:40.000Z

magnet:

Zombie indeed.

This paper was published in 2006.

The journal that published it ceased production in 2013.

You could be shocked by the original Zoe Quinn “Five Guys” tweet, and literally be more up to date.

According to Google Scholar that that paper has garnered a remarkable 297 citations and is still producing them at a high rate. Very very far from irrelevant or out of date.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Deconstructing+the+evidence-based+discourse+in+health+sciences:+truth,+power+and+fascism&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI8YbvkZzLAhUBXR4KHVhyCSYQgQMIGzAA

More comedy from the academy:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273793754_CARBON_FIBRE_MASCULINITY

academia.edu

Toward a Feminist Postcolonial Milk Studies

SpringerLink

The politics of evidence on ‘domestic terrorists’: Obesity discourses and their...

The recent construction of an ‘obesity epidemic’ has been fueled by epidemiologically-based studies recuperated by the media and suggesting the rapid acceleration of obesity rates in the Western...

http://jmm.sagepub.com/content/17/2/99.abstract
http://sci-hub.io/10.1080/0740770X.2014.907643
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258187172_Mapping_the_hobosexual_A_queer_materialism
http://gradworks.umi.com/10/01/10010629.html

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Faceless sex: glory holes and sexual assemblages.

D Holmes, P O'Byrne and SJ Murray, Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals, Oct 2010

According to our previous research, the use of glory holes in public venues such as saunas and bathhouses is very popular. The popularity of glory holes is due in part to the anonymous sex that these architectural elements allow. This post-structuralist theoretical reflection seeks to understand the specific nature of anonymous public sex among bathhouse patrons, focusing on the links between desire-architecture-place-sexual practices. Drawing on interviews with glory hole users gathered during an ethnographic research project in bathhouses, this essay goes beyond traditional public health discourse to offer an original perspective on anonymous public sex. Utilizing the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of assemblages and machines, we re-theorize glory hole sex--what we call 'faceless sex'--and rethink the ways that desire is imbricated with our understanding of architecture, place, and public. Finally, we reflect upon the particular ethical challenges that are posed by these particular sexual practices, and ask whether a post-structuralist ethic might be possible.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00131946.2015.1098643

Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies – 1 Nov 15

Black Women’s Food Work as Critical Space

Black American women have long sustained a complex relationship to food—its production, consumption, and distribution within families, communities, and the nation. Black women, often represented in American culture as “natural” good cooks on the one...

Soapyfrog · 2016-02-28T23:31:58.000Z

Are you guys just super bored? How can you stand to even track this stuff down let alone read it? It clearly has no relevance or influence on society at large, at best you are griping about some obscure subsection of academia.

Soma · 2016-02-28T23:58:58.000Z

forgeforsaken:

Not identity politics but certainly tangentially related to this thread with so many apparently worried about academia

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/24/university-of-houston-faculty-campus-carry-law-texas-guns

From a game theory perspective, I think it actually makes the campus safer:

If a terrorist go to UH, s/he need to worry about, say, 5% of the students packing (or whatever percentage of students in reality does pack, given the opportunity) and actively resisting, as opposed to virtually 0% of student resisting, in a university where concealed weapon is banned. So will the terrorist choose to attack UH, or that other university?

By the same token, if some random person starts to shoot people in a fit of anger, because of the gun policy there is a non-trivial, non-zero chance that ANOTHER person is ALSO carrying concealed weapon, and will shoot the person starting a rampage.

Sure it fosters distrust, but from what I can see, the policy will probably improve security.

playingwithknives · 2016-02-29T00:03:51.000Z

Re: Zombie Apocalypse

Actually, it’s just happened again.

For the last few months MarySue has been running feminist critique from Sandy Beaches, loaded with jargon and pseudo social science.

Sandy is a fake writer whose only purpose was to see what kind of nonsense MarySue would print.

Medium – 29 Feb 16

[Updated] Uh-oh! The Mary Sue Caught Red Handed – Alasdair Fraser – Medium

A pseudonymous writer at The Mary Sue has revealed that the website published factually incorrect content, with limited editorial…

Reading time: 4 min read

Edit: one of the articles in question (and archive if they take it down)

http://www.themarysue.com/remake-final-fantasy-vii-without-the-sexism/

I’m fluid in SJWese I wonder if I can make a few quid here.

gurugeorge · 2016-02-29T03:38:10.000Z

Soapyfrog:

Are you guys just super bored? How can you stand to even track this stuff down let alone read it? It clearly has no relevance or influence on society at large, at best you are griping about some obscure subsection of academia.

Your Jedi Mind tricks only work on the weak-minded ;)

legowarrior · 2016-02-29T04:39:48.000Z

Soma:

From a game theory perspective, I think it actually makes the campus safer:

If a terrorist go to UH, s/he need to worry about, say, 5% of the students packing (or whatever percentage of students in reality does pack, given the opportunity) and actively resisting, as opposed to virtually 0% of student resisting, in a university where concealed weapon is banned. So will the terrorist choose to attack UH, or that other university?

By the same token, if some random person starts to shoot people in a fit of anger, because of the gun policy there is a non-trivial, non-zero chance that ANOTHER person is ALSO carrying concealed weapon, and will shoot the person starting a rampage.

Sure it fosters distrust, but from what I can see, the policy will probably improve security.

For some reason, you just reminded me of some of the conditions of WW1. Everyone was arming themselves, and there was a lot of distrust, but no one seemed to want to start the actual war or anything. Well, till it happened. Individual security caused regional insecurity, at least that’s how my text books described it.

Pod · 2016-02-29T05:31:30.000Z

Soma:

From a game theory perspective, I think it actually makes the campus safer:

If a terrorist go to UH, s/he need to worry about, say, 5% of the students packing (or whatever percentage of students in reality does pack, given the opportunity) and actively resisting, as opposed to virtually 0% of student resisting, in a university where concealed weapon is banned. So will the terrorist choose to attack UH, or that other university?

By the same token, if some random person starts to shoot people in a fit of anger, because of the gun policy there is a non-trivial, non-zero chance that ANOTHER person is ALSO carrying concealed weapon, and will shoot the person starting a rampage.

Sure it fosters distrust, but from what I can see, the policy will probably improve security.

Terrorists and mass-shooters tend not to worry too much about opposition they’ll face. They’re not rational actors.

Soapyfrog · 2016-02-29T06:24:27.000Z

gurugeorge:

Your Jedi Mind tricks only work on the weak-minded ;)

It seems to me you are mind-tricking yourself.

Regarding The Mary Sue/Sandy Beaches thing the guy wrote a plausible opinion piece. Not sure how you can “vet” that.

If I wrote an article about how I was kidnapped by aliens and it get picked up by a ufologist blog and then I subsequently say I lied and then point and laugh… What exactly have I really accomplished?

Teiman · 2016-02-29T06:25:54.000Z

11/s was a suicide

Malathor · 2016-02-29T09:37:21.000Z

SJW toxic culture, from former SJWs.

mcgilldaily.com

“Everything is problematic” | The McGill Daily

My journey into the centre of a dark political world, and how I escaped

The Independent – 25 Feb 16

'The left is destroying people's lives and censoring free speech, and I'm sick...

I've seen from the inside how the left is destroying people's lives and censoring free speech, and I'm sick of it

Soapyfrog · 2016-02-29T10:06:24.000Z

Malathor:

http://www.mcgilldaily.com/2014/11/everything-problematic/

gurugeorge already linked this in support of his contention that most universities are being dominated by radical left-wing politics, in the case of McGill at least this is laughable.

Strange though that you are so desperately concerned with “SJW” movements that have no power and little influence over society at large while on the other hand Trump seems likely to win the Republican nomination. A toxic proto-fascist is literally jockeying for a position of power and you are still worried about what students do before they become serious people and what academics say to each other.

Incendiary_Lemon · 2016-02-29T10:06:25.000Z

Soapyfrog:

Are you guys just super bored? How can you stand to even track this stuff down let alone read it? It clearly has no relevance or influence on society at large, at best you are griping about some obscure subsection of academia.

That paper actually reminds me of some of the drivel I saw in Poly-Sci. The jargon is almost the same.

Soapyfrog · 2016-02-29T10:20:26.000Z

Food for thought; shouldn’t you right wing types be delighted by all that in-fighting on the left? Surely if they all actually got along and decided to work together they would form a viable political alternative which could potentially gain power…

LMN8R · 2016-02-29T15:25:43.000Z

“One of the most radical things you can do is to actually believe women when they talk about their experiences”

This American Life – 26 Feb 16

Anatomy of Doubt - This American Life

The story of a rape investigation gone undeniably wrong.

gurugeorge · 2016-02-29T16:28:05.000Z

Soapyfrog:

Food for thought; shouldn’t you right wing types be delighted by all that in-fighting on the left? Surely if they all actually got along and decided to work together they would form a viable political alternative which could potentially gain power…

LOL, this just shows me how lovingly well-constructed your strawman is. You really have no idea, do you?