We’re at a point where gender studies shouldn’t even be considered part of the humanities anymore, I’d say. As you remind us, they’re severely in denial about what biology, medicine and psychology have established and their experimental data. They’re the intellectual equivalent of anti-vax “activists” (except that the latter have yet to reach the same degree of entryism and grift).
There are other adjacent fields that are similarly problematic, being committed to discredited ideas like Marxist economics, or to what’s sometimes naïvely called “post-modernism” (actually a huge misreading of what the original postmodernists were in fact trying to achieve!). All of that stuff is way too toxic and radioactive to even think about seeking it out explicitly.
We’re at a point where gender studies shouldn’t even be considered part of the humanities anymore, I’d say. As you remind us, they’re severely in denial about what biology, medicine and psychology have established and their experimental data. They’re the intellectual equivalent of anti-vax “activists” (except that the latter have yet to reach the same degree of entryism and grift).
There are other adjacent fields that are similarly problematic, being committed to discredited ideas like Marxist economics, or to what’s sometimes naïvely called “post-modernism” (actually a huge misreading of what the original postmodernists were in fact trying to achieve!). All of that stuff is way too toxic and radioactive to even think about seeking it out explicitly.