Link: Grievance Studies Probe papers and reviews.
Video: Grievance Studies primer.
Not mentioned: a published paper called “The conceptual penis as a social construct”, which argues that:
the penis vis-à-vis maleness is an incoherent construct. We argue that the conceptual penis is better understood not as an anatomical organ but as a social construct isomorphic to performative toxic masculinity. Through detailed poststructuralist discursive criticism and the example of climate change, this paper will challenge the prevailing and damaging social trope that penises are best understood as the male sexual organ and reassign it a more fitting role as a type of masculine performance.
That “ridiculous by intention” paper underwent an extremely public retraction, even though:
The reviewers were amazingly encouraging, giving us very high marks in nearly every category. For example, one reviewer graded our thesis statement “sound” and praised it thusly, “It capturs [sic] the issue of hypermasculinity through a multi-dimensional and nonlinear process” (which we take to mean that it wanders aimlessly through many layers of jargon and nonsense). The other reviewer marked the thesis, along with the entire paper, “outstanding” in every applicable category.
Although all the published papers have subsequently been retracted, it’s noteworthy by their publication in the first place that they didn’t misunderstand, misrepresent or misapply Critical Theory; indeed, they’re indistinguishable from the real thing, to the extent of being highly praised in their fields. The only reason they were retracted at all is because they were written under aliases.
Go here: http://retractiondatabase.org and in “Reason for retraction”, search: Hoax Paper.
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We should be alarmed that biased, ideologically motivated nonsense, created with such reality-disconnected and conspiracy-minded toolsets as Critical Theory, are forwarded as “knowledge” through academia, to be cited as “a study says... the penis is a social construct” and treated as factual.
What’s actually true actually matters.
