Is equality over?

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[–]jet199 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I think there's been a move away from proper research in the social sciences and towards anecdotal evidence.

Take the example of inter racial adoption. The research across many decades and different countries shows that kids adopted by parents of a different race have the same outcomes and the same level of unhappiness with their adopted family as people adopted by parents of the same race.

However from the point of view of many people who were raised in inter racial adoption all their feelings of otheness and rootlessness are due to race. In fact it's the case all adopted kids have these feelings to some extent.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The growth of ethnography and especially, autoethnography, was really the death of the social sciences as rigorous endeavours. Gone was the painstaking collection of data and observations from dispassionate, disinterested researchers, to be replaced by personal anecdotes and unevidenced assertions from activists masquerading as researchers.

It’s obvious why it’s been done, it’s both easier and you don’t get pesky results that upset your carefully crafted assertions and assumptions.

Add to that the frankly disgraceful citation laundering that goes on, editors and reviewers waving their friends’ and accomplices’ articles through peer review without verifying their theses (and acting all indignant when caught out).

So it’s not really any wonder why what was once viewed as “providing a child a much-needed, home with loving parents” has become a vile act of white supremacy and cultural imperialism.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'll probably get shit for saying it but I think that movement has coincided with colleges push to bring in more women.

Not that there aren't very smart extremely capable women that need to be in academics. There are, but I think that when you bring in a large influx of women into what has been developed as a traditionally male institution you get a lot of the "women's study major" stereotype. Where they take things personally or very emotionally as for what's supposed to be a dispassionate academic discussion.

I think when it comes to women's issue specifically it very much difficult for the average person and especially the average woman to have a dispassionate logical discussion about horrible things like rape genocide etc. But unless we can play devils advocate and discuss ideas that are frankly offensive to the general public we can't really learn about what makes the world tick.

Like if we were to do a statistical analysis of the outcomes of kids that were adopted and compare them against kids that were not we might find that kids that are adopted are less likely to be successful in life and some very emotional undergrad or the general public may well interpret that as "adoption is bad" or "adopted kids are inferior" which is far from the truth. The emotional reality of it is of course that adoption is a good thing, and that ideally the adopted kid is exactly the same as a genetically related child, that's the ceremonial purpose of adoption to erase such a distinction. But reality doesn't exactly follow the ideal and any number of complication can occur that are worthy of study and understanding, but that doesn't indicate the underlying condition itself is bad.

[–]exiled_from_reddit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'll probably get shit

You will. Implying 'women in academic contexts are less rational than men' is a wild claim which demands solid evidence. You provided none.