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A graduate assistant at the University of Cincinnati claims “intelligence is a white man’s mythology” and says it’s “sexist” to call females “smart” or “brilliant.”
In a Twitter rant, the cognition and evolution student Mel Andrews wrote, Stop calling your female colleagues ‘smart,’ or ‘clever,’ or ‘brilliant. It’s sexist and infantilising…it shouldn’t be surprising to you in 2021 that women are capable of thought.”
Stop calling your female colleagues “smart,” or “clever,” or “brilliant.” It’s sexist and infantilising. You would never, ever stress how “truly bright” Brandom is when recommending A Spirit of Trust. It shouldn’t be surprising to you in 2021 that women are capable of thought.
— Mel Andrews (@bayesianboy) February 24, 2021
Andrews continued, explaining the same thing applies to black and latino students.
“You’re doing the same thing when you describe your Black and Latino students as ‘very bright,’” she wrote.
“Intelligence is a white man’s mythology. A phantasmal concept. A non-referring term. Syncategorematic.
Campus Reform reports:
Indicating that her post was entirely serious, Andrews posted an excerpt from a chapter that she wrote for a book entitled Handbook of Parenting. She cited works claiming that “more than a century of wanton reductionism and definitional vagueness in the study of intelligence and human potential has perpetuated a stratified social order and obscured the true dynamic complexity and diversity of human cognitive development.”
Andrews’ most recent research paper received several thousand downloads.
For the full report, click HERE
A Bill Pushing Left Leaning Politics Into the Classroom in Illinois Has Officially Passed
A graduate assistant at the University of Cincinnati claims “intelligence is a white man’s mythology” and says it’s “sexist” to call females “smart” or “brilliant.”
In a Twitter rant, the cognition and evolution student Mel Andrews wrote, Stop calling your female colleagues ‘smart,’ or ‘clever,’ or ‘brilliant. It’s sexist and infantilising…it shouldn’t be surprising to you in 2021 that women are capable of thought.”
Stop calling your female colleagues “smart,” or “clever,” or “brilliant.” It’s sexist and infantilising. You would never, ever stress how “truly bright” Brandom is when recommending A Spirit of Trust. It shouldn’t be surprising to you in 2021 that women are capable of thought.
— Mel Andrews (@bayesianboy) February 24, 2021
Andrews continued, explaining the same thing applies to black and latino students.
“You’re doing the same thing when you describe your Black and Latino students as ‘very bright,’” she wrote.
“Intelligence is a white man’s mythology. A phantasmal concept. A non-referring term. Syncategorematic.
Campus Reform reports:
Indicating that her post was entirely serious, Andrews posted an excerpt from a chapter that she wrote for a book entitled Handbook of Parenting. She cited works claiming that “more than a century of wanton reductionism and definitional vagueness in the study of intelligence and human potential has perpetuated a stratified social order and obscured the true dynamic complexity and diversity of human cognitive development.”
Andrews’ most recent research paper received several thousand downloads.
For the full report, click HERE