Reddit reviews Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies

I just want to point out that the OP here is being hypocritical here.

She claiming to be a skeptic but has been citing feminist advocacy research and dogma that's been produced in Women's Studies, which is a more of a quasi-religion than it is academia, while cherry picking from east targets in /r/mensrights in order to attempt to discredit the entire mens movement.

Here is a good source on the dogma and routine academic fraud and indoctrination that takes place in feminist academic circles, its quasi-religion not science or legitimate academia.
http://www.amazon.com/Professing-Feminism-Education-Indoctrination-Studies/dp/0739104551


Here is a good source on quality peer reviewed data that is commonly used in the mens movement /r/mensrightslinks and here is a related academic journal http://newmalestudies.com/OJS/index.php/nms/issue/view/7

Sure, here is a quick paper on the methods feminism uses to cover up and minimise female perpetrated domestic violence to conform to its theories on how it should look.

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mas2/V74-gender-symmetry-with-gramham-Kevan-Method%208-.pdf


Here is Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge'

>Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies

http://www.amazon.com/Professing-Feminism-Education-Indoctrination-Studies/dp/0739104551


Not peer reviewed like the first two, but an article from Real Clear Science on the topic

>Column: When 'science' looks for sexism, it finds it

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2011-07-26-men-women-feminism-sexism_n.htm

The term "Gender Studies" is so broad that it is really hard to create a one size fits all rebuttal instead you have to attack individual claims. The subject itself has been criticised heavily from its inception (it was ridiculed by Sociologists during the Second Wave but sadly it infected the subject).

This is a great book criticising the subject itself

>It's like a creationist with a high school education thinking she can "debunk" the theory of evolution.

This is a very bad analogy.

Academic feminism is similar to fundamentalist religion and it uses academic and scientific fraud to support its ideology, the people criticizing it are usually the ones that are backed up by the science.

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0D: Modern feminism: an evaluation

0E: How feminists tried to destroy the family

0F: Feminist Quotes

0G: The Ten Most Common Feminist Myths

0H: Women need to speak out on feminism and the hateful ideology it represents

0I: The Definition of Anti-Feminism

0J: The feminist trojan horse in Family Law, Australia, George Christensen

0K: The Origins of Political Correctness/Feminism

0L: Myths and Facts Concerning Divorced Families and other Feminist Myths

0M: Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies

0N: Feminism labeled a ’society killer’

0O: To the women of NOW – a rant by Steven DeLuca

1F: 12 indisputable indicators that Men are Second Class citizens in the USA

1G: Discrimination Against Men in India

1H: Drawing up a list: Codified legal rights that women have, which men lack.

1I: Feminist Lies Exposed: Facts about equal pay, domestic violence, feminist hoaxes, anti-male bigotry, gender politics, and media bias.

1J: Men will suffer from new laws on sex discrimination, academic warns (UK)

1K: Feminist myths 'are making equality laws unfair to men'

1L: UN Cheats Men With Gender Agenda

1M: VAWA Must Be Rewritten by by Phyllis Schlafly

1N: Feminists tell you that the solution to men's issues is more feminism. In reality, feminists fight against men's issues.

1O: Suzanne Venker- Feminism Doesn’t Liberate Women - Radio Boston

1P: The Flipside of Feminism (book) - Suzanne Venker and Phyllis Schlafly

1Q: New study blasts theory that women do more work - Catherine Hakim

1L: Five feminist 'myths' from the gender equality debate -Catherine Hakim

1M: Feminist myths and magic medicine: the flawed thinking behind calls for further equality legislation. - Catherine Hakim

1N: NYT and Time Discover Men and Women Work Equally

2B: Mommy's little secret, Paternity Fraud: roughly 10 percent of babies are not fathered by the man we believe to be dad.

2C: Fatherless Homes Breed Violence - 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)

3B: Why we should protect those accused of rape

4B: Female paedophile stats

4C: UK's Childline receives More Reports of Female Sexual Abusers of Children

4D: Top Ten Myths about Female Sex Offenders

4E: The Rape of Men: male rape is endemic in many of the world's conflicts

4F: Rape Common War Crime Against Men - Discussed on TheYoungTurks

4G: The silent male victims of rape - Al Jazeera English

5C: RADAR Media Fact Sheet: Women are just as likely as men to engage in partner aggression.

5D: Venus: The Dark Side--Female Sociopaths (Part I)

14B: 10 Reasons You Should Rethink Infant Circumcision

14C: The effect of male circumcision on sexuality - DaiSik Kim, Myung-Geol Pang

14D: How Male Circumcision Harms Women - Ronald Goldman, Ph.D.

22: Misandry Ignored

22B: What is Misandry

22C: Carey Roberts on Misandry

22D: Misandric Songs

23: Does Obamacare discriminate against men?

23B: A Gender Gap in Cancer, Prostate, Breast

23C: Pesticides on fruit and vegetables ' are wrecking men's fertility'

23D: A push for a federal focus on men's health

23E: Male Depression: How to Deal with It

23F: Women's brains ARE different from men's, and here's scientific proof

23G: Feminism begs to differ, but unisex brain is a fantasy

23H: Sex Difference On Spatial Skill Test Linked To Brain Structure

24: Equality is Not the same as Symmetry

25: Manginas - Betrayers Of Men

25B: An unhealthy respect for women... Marriage and Eligibity

25C: Forbes: Don't Marry Career Women

26: A List of Major Inventions Created by Men

26B: Men on average, versus women on average

26C: Men Invented Humanity

27: Feminist Code Speak

27B: The Catalogue of Anti-Male Shaming Tactics

27C: Aaron Russo: Feminism was created to destabilize society

27D: The Female Privilege Checklist

27E: Sexual Slavery Of Men

27F: Marc Rudov Busts Undercover Feminist

27G: Unearthing Matriarchy - The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future (Beacon Press 2001)

27H: It's Only Sexist When Men Do It -TheAmazingAtheist explains the sexist double standard.

27I: Men's Health Australia Busts Office for Women's 'False and Misleading' DV Statistics

27J: Exclusive:The Feminization of American Education

27K: Hoax: The Continuing Distortions about Intimate Partner Abuse | Christina Hoff Sommers | Return of the Super Bowl Hoax.

27L: Mounting Evidence Supports Reliability and Validity of Parental Alienation

> Do you have any insight into whether or not there was hostility in the past?

Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies is in part an argument against that premise.

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>I just want to point out that the OP here is being hypocritical here.

You say this a lot, but it hasn't actually been true so far.

>She claiming to be a skeptic

I am male.

>but has been citing feminist advocacy research and dogma that's been produced in Women's Studies, which is of a more quasi-religion than it is academia,

Peer-reviewed quasi-religion, roger roger. But Men's Studies is totally legit, right?

>while cherry picking from /r/mensrights in order to attempt to discredit the mens movement.

'Cherry picking' from the most upvoted topics on the front-page of the sub-reddit. It's not like it's any better right now either--pick a time and I'll highlight the numerous problems with intellectual honesty on /r/MensRights issues of the day.

>Here is a good source on the dogma and routine academic fraud and indoctrination that takes place in feminist academic. http://www.amazon.com/Professing-Feminism-Education-Indoctrination-Studies/dp/0739104551

Pop-books don't belong in a skeptical debate, generally, but this one has generated some academic discussion (e.g. here). This type of work to hold a movement to task is very important, and many fields in the social-sciences sphere have proponents that commit similar 'offenses' with matching similar efforts to keep the community in line. You're free to think that feminism as a whole is made up of people that are just dogmatic, but that isn't what this book claims, and that isn't consistent with the reality either. Feminism is a diverse field of academic discourse, there's no conspiracy here.

>And here is a good source on data that is commonly used in the mens movement /r/mensrightslinks

There's nothing wrong with more data, but be careful about drawing conclusions when your sources are all filtered through one point. There's a reason that /r/mensrightslinks is so slow moving, and it isn't because supporters are slow to identify research that is consistent with their view.

>and here is a related academic journal http://newmalestudies.com/OJS/index.php/nms/issue/view/7

This is a new journal that has yet to establish any reputation one way or the other, but their editorial team suggests that this publication could be a key contributor to this debate in the coming years. Open journals like this often have more issues fending off poorly-thought-out research (as a consequence of their desire to publish more ideas and let the community hash out their rigeur), and so far they don't seem to offer any quantitative research, but the qualitative studies that I reviewed briefly appear to be of generally high quality.