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Grievance Studies and the War on All Men

March 19, 2022
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Grievance Studies Affair

When I first read about the papers in the Grievance Study in the College Fix and Reason, I couldn’t tell they were satire.  

Minnesota is the epicenter of Marxist Feminism (aka MN Nice, woke_mind_virus, DIE Religion).

Academic ideas like “Anal penetration of sex toys into men can reduce transphobia, men should be trained like dogs, penises are a social construct, people are more likely stop gay rape in dog parks than hetero dog rape.” 

In Minnesota, the knowledge in each of these “research papers” would sound perfectly reasonable, and if you presented them in Minnesota businesses, classrooms, government agencies, courtrooms, law enforcement agencies, or non-profits, you would have people ready to rush to your cause.

They sounded hilarious when they were revealed as hoaxes, but they didn’t sound as funny to me. 

Many professors have come to prominence by warning about this new threat they’ve seen coming from the activist disciplines. This all sounds like the opinion and culture of the Minnesota licensed, professional class.

This is not new, and loss of academic freedom is the least of the problems with it. It’s been in every Minnesota institution for decades.

Least surprising of all was the “feminist version of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf.” Well, Minnesota author Kate Millett already wrote that book.  

It was a bestseller called, “Sexual Politics.” 

Applied Postmodernism

Everyone had a good laugh at how silly academics and journals have become. While I can see the humor, I actually felt relief with the attention “Applied Postmodernism” was getting.  Here in the Twin Cities Echochamber of Commerce and the Mindhive of Greater MN, we call it MN Nice.

It’s a set of passive aggressive lies that confer prestige to the liar.  

For years before the death of George Floyd, I’d asked 100’s of immigrants and Black transplants from out of state, if this comic was how they perceived “Minnesota Nice.”  Powerful people stepping on your neck and telling you they’re helping, or worse, that you’re the one tripping them.

To the one, the response was always, “Yes!!  That’s IT!”  

Pictured: Minnesota Nice

For More Info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair 

From Wikipedia

By the time of the reveal, 7 of their 20 papers had been accepted for publication, 7 were still under review, and 6 had been rejected.[3] Included among the articles that were published were arguments that dogs engage in rape culture and that men could reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys, as well as Adolf Hitler‘s Mein Kampf rewritten in feminist language.[2][4] One of the published papers in particular had won special recognition from the journal that published it.[4]

Accepted [Published]

Following the discovery of the hoax, all four papers were retracted:

Not yet published

  • Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). “When the Joke Is on You: A Feminist Perspective on How Positionality Influences Satire”. Hypatia.
  • Carol Miller (pseudonym). “Moon Meetings and the Meaning of Sisterhood: A Poetic Portrayal of Lived Feminist Spirituality”. Journal of Poetry Therapy.
  • Maria Gonzalez, and Lisa A. Jones (pseudonyms). “Our Struggle Is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism”. Affilia.

Considered

Revise and resubmit

  • Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). “Agency as an Elephant Test for Feminist Porn: Impacts on Male Explicit and Implicit Associations about Women in Society by Immersive Pornography Consumption”. Porn Studies.
  • Maria Gonzalez (pseudonym). “The Progressive Stack: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Pedagogy”. Hypatia.
  • Stephanie Moore (pseudonym). “Super-Frankenstein and the Masculine Imaginary: Feminist Epistemology and Superintelligent Artificial Intelligence Safety Research”. Feminist Theory.
  • Maria Gonzalez (pseudonym). “Stars, Planets, and Gender: A Framework for a Feminist Astronomy”. Women’s Studies International Forum.

Under review

  • Carol Miller (pseudonym). “Strategies for Dealing with Cisnormative Discursive Aggression in the Workplace: Disruption, Criticism, Self-Enforcement, and Collusion”. Gender, Work and Organization.

Rejected

  • Lisa A. Jones (pseudonym). “Rubbing One Out: Defining Metasexual Violence of Objectification Through Nonconsensual Masturbation”. Sociological Theory.
  • Carol Miller (pseudonym). “My Struggle to Dismantle My Whiteness: A Critical-Race Examination of Whiteness from within Whiteness”. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
  • Carol Miller (pseudonym). “Queering Plato: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave as a Queer-Theoretic Emancipatory Text on Sexuality and Gender”. GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies.
  • Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). “‘Pretty Good for a Girl’: Feminist Physicality and Women’s Bodybuilding”. Sociology of Sport Journal.
  • Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). “Grappling with Hegemonic Masculinity: The Roles of Masculinity and Heteronormativity in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu”. International Review for the Sociology of Sport.
  • Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). “Hegemonic Academic Bullying: The Ethics of Sokal-style Hoax Papers on Gender Studies”. Journal of Gender Studies.
  • Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity). “Self-Reflections on Self-Reflections: An Autoethnographic Defense of Autoethnography”. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.
  • Brandon Williams (pseudonym). “Masculinity and the Others Within: A Schizoethnographic Approach to Autoethnography”. Qualitative Inquiry.

Helen Wilson (pseudonym). “Rebraiding Masculinity: Redefining the Struggle of Women Under the Domination of the Masculinity Trinity”. Signs.

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