University psychology departments

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Are there any gender critical university psychology departments? I'm a mature student and the final years are sending out their studies for people to participate in. Every single one asks for gender with Male/female/other or how you define (attached is an example). There was one that wanted men and the student got loads of comments along the lines of "not all men have penises".

I want to reply that they're all invalid as they have men and women mixed. But I can't without labelling myself as a bigot. And I'm dreading when it's my turn. I'm thinking now that I'll have to do something like study women who have given birth in order to keep my results valid. They can define however they want, but if they've grown a baby, they're a biological woman! Or something where I specifically don't do a gender breakdown.

I'm so fucked off about this.

So are there gender critical psych departments?

Bloody hell! I wouldn't be able to do my dissertations any more. The second one about overweight women and exercise was subtitled "What makes fat women wiggle?" - all sorts of wrong these days!

I have no useful advice other than take a duvet day! That must make your head hurt!

Gina Rippon's might be a better bet than most, although I'm not sure if she is in Psychology or Biology. www.theguardian.com/science/2019/feb/24/meet-the-neuroscientist-shattering-the-myth-of-the-gendered-brain-gina-rippon

I did a psychology degree, graduating in 92.

I wouldn't do psychology, or any social science, now. It's all gone mad.

To answer your question - probably not. The British Psychological Society appear to have swallowed the gender rhetoric. We can only hope that some sort of sanity prevails over the next few years, and this stuff springs back to some sort of not-completely-crazy level...

Good luck btw - I like your idea of (women!) people "who have given birth" to keep your study group female - but how ridiculous that it has come to this.

You'd probably be told you have to say 'people who have given birth' or or 'gestators'. Apparently it's not acceptable to state that only women can give birth, any more than to say that no woman has a penis or no man menstruates.

Check out GIna Rippon at Aston. Ex external examiner in my department, had an article in the guardian today you may be interested in. Totally refutes pink/blue brains.

murasaki thanks, I'll take a look. I was recently told by a faculty member that pink and blue brains were a thing, at least in so much as they haven't been disproved, therefore we can't say they don't exist. It was a female faculty member and I refrained from saying that less than 100 years ago she's not have had her position due to similar thinking.

My masters dissertation is on femicide, thankfully pretty gender critical 😁

It's tough in psychology at the moment but fight back

Psych has always Been pretty sexist what with the sub field of “evolutionary psychology” aka “biology causes 50s gender roles”.

You can’t make the same inferences on human behavior as with animals because of course you can’t control anything about the genetics OR the environment. Yet they keep doing it anyway...

I expect there are GC individuals in most departments, who are currently keeping their heads down.

A few years ago the Psychology of Women section of the British psychological Society changed it’s name to Psychology of Women and Equalities but, even though the changed focus was pushedthrough, there was at least quitea few people who wanted to keepthe focus on women.