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Occupation (s) Author, cultural writer. Known for. Grievance studies affair. Notable work. Cynical Theories (2020) Helen Pluckrose is a British author and cultural writer known for critiques of critical theory and social justice [1] and promotion of liberal ethics, most notably in the grievance studies affair. [2][3][4][5]
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody is a nonfiction book by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, published in August 2020.
- "Grievance Studies" and "Applied Postmodernism"
- Sequence of Events
- Reactions
- List of Hoax Papers
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Through their series of hoax articles, James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose intended to expose issues in what they term as "grievance studies", a subcategory of academic areas where the three believe "a culture has developed in which only certain conclusions are allowed ... and put social grievances ahead of objective truth." The...
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. 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 M...
The project drew both praise and criticism. The science writer Tom Chivers suggested that the result was a "predictable furore", whereby those already sceptical of gender studies hailed it as evidence for "how the whole field is riddled with nonsense", while those sympathetic to gender studies thought it was "dishonestly undermining good scholarshi...
Rejected
1. Lisa A. Jones (pseudonym). "Rubbing One Out: Defining Metasexual Violence of Objectification Through Nonconsensual Masturbation". Sociological Theory. 2. Carol Miller (pseudonym). "My Struggle to Dismantle My Whiteness: A Critical-Race Examination of Whiteness from within Whiteness". Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 3. 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 St...
Grievance studies on Peter Boghossian's webpageCollection of the papers, reviews and press material on Google DriveJul 13, 2021 · Helen Pluckrose, author of Cynical Theories and founder of the Counterweights, joined Jeremy Beer on Givers, Doers, & Thinkers to discuss the rise of critical social justice theory.
Mar 16, 2021 · Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity‐and Why This Harms Everybody Pitchstone Publishing, 2020. 352 p. $27.95 - RICH - 2021 - Population and Development Review - Wiley Online Library. BOOK REVIEW.
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Jun 18, 2019 · Tonight, one of the ‘hoaxers’ and editor of Areo magazine Helen Pluckrose will deliver the fourth Ramsay Lecture for 2019, outlining the threat she believes ‘grievance studies’ pose to real academic progress in fields that should continue the work of the US civil rights movement.
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In this clip, Helen discusses the backstory of her notable paper on "rape culture in dog parks" and its implications for the effectiveness of the peer review process. Helen Pluckrose, who...
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