This is pretty funny. Three academics set about to prove that much of what is published in academic journals in the humanities is a load of shit with no basis is truth or scientific fact. They sent 20 articles, with intentionally ludicrous theses, written under an alias from the fictitious Portland Ungendering Research Initiative to various academic journals for feminist studies, gender studies, queer studies, fat studies, etc. They got 7 accepted, and 7 were in the process of being assessed when people began to become suspicious about one of their articles, so they fessed up.

One article was a rewriting of a chapter from Mein Kampf with lots of feminist jargon added. It got published in the feminist studies journal Affilia.

Their articles made arguments such as:

“That dog parks are rape-condoning spaces and a place of rampant canine rape culture and systemic oppression against “the oppressed dog” through which human attitudes to both problems can be measured. This provides insight into training men out of the sexual violence and bigotry to which they are prone.”

“That it is suspicious that men rarely anally self-penetrate using sex toys, and that this is probably due to fear of being thought homosexual (“homohysteria”) and bigotry against trans people (transphobia). (It combines these ideas into a novel concept “transhysteria,” which was suggested by one of the paper’s peer reviewers.) Encouraging them to engage in receptive penetrative anal eroticism will decrease transphobia and increase feminist values.”

“That men frequent “breasturants” like Hooters because they are nostalgic for patriarchal dominance and enjoy being able to order attractive women around. The environment that breastaurants provide for facilitating this encourages men to identify sexual objectification and sexual conquest, along with masculine toughness and male dominance, with “authentic masculinity.”

“When a man privately masturbates while fantasizing about a woman who has not given him permission to do so, or while fantasizing about her in ways she hasn’t consented to, he has committed “metasexual” violence against her, even if she never finds out. “Metasexual” violence is described as a kind of nonphysical sexual violence that causes depersonalization of the woman by sexually objectifying her and making her a kind of mental prop used to facilitate male orgasm.”

“The primary reason men engage in “grappling-based martial arts” like Brazilian jiu jitsu and wrestling, is because hegemonic forms of masculinity prevent their access to homosexual (and homoerotic) male touch in general, which is exacerbated in specific through the focus on “submission” into a repressed need to do so via socially acceptable activities that amount to performative gay BDSM.”

“The science of astronomy is and always has been intrinsically sexist and Western, and this masculinist and Western bias can best be corrected by including feminist, queer, and indigenous astrology (e.g., horoscopes) as part of astronomical science.”

“That educators should discriminate by identity and calculate their students’ status in terms of privilege, favor the least privileged with more time, attention and positive feedback and penalize the most privileged by declining to hear their contributions, deriding their input, intentionally speaking over them, and making them sit on the floor in chains—framed as educational opportunities we termed “experiential reparations.”

“That it is only oppressive cultural norms which make society regard the building of muscle rather than fat admirable and that bodybuilding and activism on behalf of the fat could be benefited by including fat bodies displayed in non-competitive ways.”

https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/aca ... holarship/

This article takes fake news, psychology and science to a new level.

Before reading this topic, I put my aluminium hat on.

Nine out of ten people enjoy gang rape.