Solidarity Feminism: pranksters rewrote Mein Kampf to use intersectional language and submitted it to a feminist journal. It was accepted and published.

DarkHartsVoid · 2018-10-03T09:05:00+00:00

r/menkampf has left the internet.

Yoji_84 · 2018-10-03T09:04:24+00:00

Damn... where can I find this 3000-word rewrite?

melsro · 2018-10-03T09:43:16+00:00

Is the an online version of the 7 published articles?

somnambulator · 2018-10-03T08:40:55+00:00

Does this mean that intersectional feminists are literally Nazis?

KoleMiner12 · 2018-10-03T09:53:29+00:00

There's no way. This has to he some sort of Onion clone. Right?

eDgEIN708 · 2018-10-03T14:19:39+00:00

This is the first time I hear the term "grievance studies". I hope that's a thing now.

Lethn · 2018-10-03T11:52:10+00:00

These academics are brilliant and if this doesn't convince you that universities who push for feminist ideology this hard are a complete joke I don't know what will.

asdfgasdfg312 · 2018-10-03T12:09:16+00:00

M'kampf

Alfylol · 2018-10-03T13:53:31+00:00

Feminazi is much more fitting now...

splodgenessabounds · 2018-10-03T14:00:34+00:00

The people who wrote this (excellent) paper are both taking the piss and making a serious point: that the humanities "literature" is so far up its own arse it can see daylight.

But they've done a lot more than just this paper. See also the Dog Park paper in which they posited that "we should train men like we do dogs—to prevent rape culture"; arguing that '“a fat body is a legitimately built body” as a foundation for introducing a category for fat bodybuilding into the sport of professional bodybuilding in Fat Studies; an examination of men using Male preserves to enact dying “macho” masculinities in the context of "Breastaurants"; and "Why don’t straight men tend to masturbate via anal penetration, and what might happen if they did?"[2]

Yes, I know this is Sokal all over again, but it's worth the repetition because clearly the lesson that Sokal provided has been forgotten.

Don't take my word for any of this, go and read the Academic Grievance post in its entirety. It's full-to-the-gunwales not just of evidence of fundamentally flawed theories about men, but the ridiculously low bar that prevails in getting papers published in peer-reviewed journals on gender and sexuality.

[1]

Following recent trends in masculinities research, my study interprets the breastaurant as a type of male preserve that erects a local pastiche hegemony in which these themes gain protected status

[2]

This analysis recognizes potential socially remedial value for encouraging male anal eroticism with sex toys.

chambertlo · 2018-10-03T13:47:17+00:00

Feminism is not an intelligent ideology. It is a bitter, entitled one.

CatOfGrey · 2018-10-03T18:28:28+00:00

The title is technically correct, but it is almost click-bait compared to the level of depth that this team of academics achieved in their criticism of what they call 'grievance studies'.

The portion of this project that has to do with Mein Kampf is relatively small compared to the actual scope of their project and findings.

Kuato2012 · 2018-10-03T23:50:39+00:00

I posted this in a child comment below, but here's a sampling for anyone who doesn't want to dig through their paper or Mein Kampf:

(1) To win the masses for a national resurrection, no social sacrifice is too great.

Hitler

Second, then, in creating solidarity for overcoming oppression, sacrifices will be necessary, and, though we must remain aware of the real and material barriers feminists and others may face that limit their potential for activism, no accessible sacrifice that abnegates neoliberalism should be considered too great.

FMK

(3) The nationalization of the broad masses can never be achieved by half-measures, by weakly emphasizing a so-called objective standpoint, but only by a ruthless and fanatically one-sided orientation toward the goal to be achieved.

Hitler

Fifth, though change may come in stages, feminism cannot limit itself to half-measures in solidarity or be selfish. These manifest under choice feminism (Ferguson, 2010), for example, by placing emphasis upon a so-called objective standpoint (cf. hooks, 2000, p. 8) or through pursuit of aims that appear feminist but actually support neoliberalism (Rottenberg, 2014, 2017). Though what constitutes justice is itself multifarious and pluralistic, only a single-minded alignment with solidarity for effecting the goal of justice will suffice (cf. Hirschmann, 2010; hooks, 2000; Patel, 2011; Russell & Bohan, 2016).

FMK

That is to say, a people cannot be made 'national' in the sense understood by our present-day bourgeoisie, meaning with so and so many limitations, but only nationalistic with the entire vehemence that is inherent in the extreme. Poison is countered only by an antidote, and only the shallowness of a bourgeois mind can regard the middle course as the road to heaven.

Hitler

That is to say, under neoliberal approaches, society will not be made feminist in the true sense (Rottenberg, 2014; pace Snyder-Hall, 2010) but only feministic with many limitations. This is the state in which we now find ourselves. Neoliberal oppression can only be countered by an effective antidote to neoliberalism which Rottenberg demonstrated that neoliberal feminism cannot provide. Only the blinkering of privilege (cf. DiAngelo, 2011; Dotson, 2014) could underestimate the need for solidarity and regard choice feminism as a workable solution (Rottenberg, 2014, p. 428).

FMK

The broad masses of a people consist neither of professors nor of diplomats. The scantiness of the abstract knowledge they possess directs their sentiments more to the world of feeling. That is where their positive or negative attitude lies. It is receptive only to an expression of force in one of these two directions and never to a half-measure hovering between the two.

Hitler

Most people are neither scholars nor activists indeed, few even consider themselves feminists (Houvouras & Carter, 2008). As such, they possess little understanding of abstract theoretical knowledge, and this directs their opinions toward the affective, which is where their compassion and frustration lies. In this sense, individuals are receptive to appeals in one direction or the other but never to a nuanced halfway point between the two.

FMK

thrway_1000 · 2018-10-03T09:41:22+00:00

Archive -- https://archive.is/CYikE

tb21666 · 2018-10-03T17:42:34+00:00

Has there ever been a better time to use the phrase 'Literally Hitler'..?

Tho, in this instance I suppose it would be 'Literary Hitler'.

BlueOrange22 · 2018-10-03T20:08:11+00:00

SHW feminism is a hate ideology. The creeping anti white male rhetoric follows exactly patterns of historical fascist regimes.

kill white men

joy from cruelty.

Thuban · 2018-10-03T14:45:09+00:00

What do you think of my work?

Mechanistic and somewhat facist. But pretentious high school seniors might find it thought provoking! - Third rock from the sun

trouserschnauzer · 2018-10-03T12:59:03+00:00

Many "academic" journals have this problem and will literally publish anything that's submitted.

Aeponix · 2018-10-03T13:42:33+00:00

The funny thing is that Greene isn't even completely wrong, which is why post modernism has been adopted so readily by relatively intelligent people.

All work done by an individual is "tainted" by that individual's biases and experiences. That is why peer review exists, to challenge ideas that may be inaccurate conclusions. And peer reviews, as shown in this series of pranks, are not an infallible process to weed out truth from fiction.

However, what we need to take from this is not that every piece of knowledge we have needs to be questioned. It's that we move forward with a renewed diligence toward detecting individual bias as we always have; we strengthen our efforts in peer reviews to replicate the findings, or show that they can't be replicated.

We must remain self aware, and sensitive to our own biases. That includes feminists who believe men rule the world as a class, and not as individuals.

If I go into an experiment wanting a certain outcome, I will be all the more critical of my methodology should that outcome come to pass. Our goal should be to distill truth, even if it proves our own belief wrong. I would argue that it's even probably better to create an experiment that deliberately aims to prove your bias wrong.

We need to always be questioning and reaffirming everything. We need to be neutral, and not beholden to ideological preconceptions. I need to be willing to create experiments that may prove the earth is flat, or that the wage gap does exist as a consequence of the patriarchy. Only by accepting these outcomes as possibilities can I know that I am being impartial to the outcome, and that it is most accurate.

antilopes · 2018-10-03T10:12:59+00:00

Good fun, and makes its point well. But lest the STEMlords just read the headline and depart feeling smug, read on.

I spent a year in a field where postmodernism was the trendy new toy and saw my share of impenetrable bullshit, I stayed away from it.
That doesn't mean it is all rubbish though. Like string theory pomo is ugly, difficult and obscure so there is endless cover for charlatans. But it is a different approach which reveals different insights. Classical physics wasn't going to produce a ToE; and classical western art history, for example, had missed much by its attempt to minimise and ignore the effects of it being produced by a body of scholars notably lacking diversity in class and ethnicity.
Burning half of the pomo books and papers ever published may well improve the world but burning them all would be a huge step backwards. And pomo writings are not the only kind which would benefit from culling.

Here are a couple of comments I liked:

innotecture October 3, 2018 It is a good thing that fake or fraudulent papers are never published by scientists in scientific journals /s: https://retractionwatch.com/

A search of the Quillette site yields 113 results for the term “postmodern” and 2 for the term “replication crisis”.

There are a series of massive, interconnected problems in the world of academic publishing –
predatory journals;
unpaid and unrewarded labour;
reviewers that are either conflicted in, or unsuited to, their roles;
perverse incentives in article selection; and even
research that should be published and is actively suppressed.

It is, however, easier to blame the loopy postmodernists rather than tackle some of the hard structural issues at play here.
.

lemurlover October 3, 2018

Postmodernism “scholarship” is mostly rubbish. I feel entitled to make that judgment because I have a PhD in American Culture Studies, so I suffered through far too many courses which muddied the water of theory in order to make it appear deep (to paraphrase Nietzsche).

However, I don’t think this article proves that academia is in crisis, if that’s its intention. I also have an M.A. in philosophy, and I think it’s safe to say that the vast majority of Anglo-American philosophers rightly regard pomo as obscurantist bunk.

Likewise, I think it’s easy to overestimate the number of social scientists (sociologists, psychologists, political scientists, etc.) who have abandoned rigorous, empirical research in favor of ideological posturing.

Across all disciplines, there are thousands of serious academic journals and dozens (if not hundreds) of “pay to publish” junk journals. It’s not altogether surprising that some have lax standards and will accept nonsensical, jargon-laden submissions for publication.
Sokal performed a valuable service, and these authors should be celebrated for following in his footsteps. Still, it doesn’t follow that all (or most, or perhaps even many) scholars in the humanities and social sciences have abandoned the guiding principles of the Enlightenment.
Quantitative research would be required to accurately assess the scope of the problem.

lostapwbm · 2018-10-03T15:56:39+00:00

All together now:

Feminists are the handmaidens of tyranny!

2018-10-03T18:30:36+00:00

Holy shit. Literally. Did someone tell Jordan Peterson yet?

graveless_ · 2018-10-03T20:22:10+00:00

!remindme

TibsKirk · 2018-10-03T21:07:24+00:00

This is far more epic than the legendary Sokal hoax that started the Science Wars. I kind of wish that they had waited until the mein kampf rewrite was published instead of just accepted. Academia is so undermined by cultural studies and postmodernism.

mcmur · 2018-10-03T22:52:18+00:00

Wow. This is both sad and hilarious. I feel like I shouldn’t need anymore proof that even ‘academic’ feminists are overtly, unapologetically sexist. Especially if the openly discriminatory language of fucking “mein kampf” fits the style of how feminist writing talks about men and masculinity.

2018-10-03T14:52:05+00:00

Hahahaha!! Modern academia doesn’t really do critical thinking any longer. They just brain wash you to be an obedient sheep.

shit-zen-giggles · 2018-10-03T15:45:10+00:00

Trolling is the most effective weapon in the culture war.

yourfauxoutrage · 2018-10-03T14:31:31+00:00

Damn and I had just given up on the human race.

2018-10-03T15:43:21+00:00

Is this real?? Lol

DeathArrow007 · 2018-10-03T15:55:47+00:00

Well this is bad.

WhyNotARobot · 2018-10-03T15:57:01+00:00

Accurate

iseehot · 2018-10-03T17:06:09+00:00

This is a mistake to learn from.

The more you want to believe something you read, the more you should make absolutely sure that is not the reason you accept the premise.

Con women and men make a lot of money on the gullible.

kevon87 · 2018-10-03T21:31:12+00:00

This is depressing. And hilarious....

I call it deprarious

FabulosoGodofredo · 2018-10-03T22:49:53+00:00

Quillet is known for publishing things that they don't even agree with. Its the whole idea of the magazine to publish even the most outlandish /dangerous ideas

BlackJackBandito · 2018-10-04T10:19:53+00:00

I am all for these attempts to expose the absurdity of these so called academic disciplines. The Sokal Affair was the best example

thxnwy · 2018-10-03T17:44:28+00:00

Feminism is just a giant shit test and they are cranking it up by the day to see how much bs they can get away with.

FightTheCock · 2018-10-03T17:04:52+00:00

Feminazis

Ransal · 2018-10-03T18:00:47+00:00

this that whole thing about feminists infiltrating STEM and approving papers that are anti-science as long as they promote womyn?

HIGH_ENERGY_MEMES · 2018-10-03T19:51:49+00:00

Elton fumed that the younger generation was on “the intellectual equivalent of crack”, addicted to the “cancerous radiation that comes from the foreheads of Derrida and Foucault”.

Brilliantly put

QE-Infinity · 2018-10-03T21:03:13+00:00

This core group of BJJ participants maintained a social ritual of going out for meat, heat, and beer after Thursday evening classes, and more than 90% of our visits to the breastaurant occurred in 90–120-min increments beginning at roughly 20:00 on (most) Thursday evenings, although we occasionally met in smaller groups for lunch on other days of the week.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P7iCbvdsvdkuFYw_ibEfg__B7HHPKTkc/view

This is fucking gold

TibsKirk · 2018-10-03T22:03:44+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVk9a5Jcd1k

Lupinfujiko · 2018-10-03T23:04:06+00:00

Has Jordan Peterson commented on this yet?

This is exactly what he has been talking about.

karben14 · 2018-10-04T04:15:55+00:00

This was in the references. Is it real, or trolling?

Branfman, J., Stiritz, S., & Anderson, E. (2017). Relaxing the straight male anus: Decreasing homohysteria around anal eroticism. Sexualities. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460716678560.Google Scholar

vwolf800 · 2018-10-04T08:20:35+00:00

So feminists are retarded, whats new?

JackFisherBooks · 2018-10-04T13:17:53+00:00

I don't know whether to laugh or cringe.

Jethr0Paladin · 2018-10-03T17:16:04+00:00

Thank you. I haven't read such a difficult to read article as this in years.

It's difficult to read because it's made for academics, and I haven't been part of academia in half a decade now.

CheSankara · 2018-10-03T13:31:45+00:00

i thought you pussies and fags loved mein kampf anyway? not anymore?

Title	Solidarity Feminism: pranksters rewrote Mein Kampf to use intersectional language and submitted it to a feminist journal. It was accepted and published.
Author	EricAllonde
Upvotes	3012
Comments	167
Date	October 3, 2018 8:07 AM UTC (7 years ago)
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