As someone who's taken a few gender studies courses etc. out of curiosity, I thought I'd share with anyone who doesn't know the process of how they come up with this stuff. Here is an essay you may have heard of by Bell Hooks: https://de.ryerson.ca/DE_courses/uploadedFiles/6052_Arts/CSOC202/Modules/Module_00/eating%20the%20other.pdf That essay is more or less the foundation for the currently too-familiar idea of cultural appropriation... and it's basically a blog. To sum it up a woman with a lot of baggage overhears some white college guys talking in a way that offends her (they were kind of being douchebags), opines a motivation for that kind of speech, filters it through years of emotion and bias, and publishes an essay. That type of essay happened to be in style at the time and pretty much went viral amongst academics, and now it's taught at prestigious schools as if it's fact. Now this incident isn't unique, it's no secret that that's just how the social sciences work, which in my opinion exempts them from classification as "science". This essay contains no counterargument, it's the opinion of one radical generalized from a single incident and presented without context to young minds. There's no substance here, just an angry woman and her anecdotes. And this is how it all works. I don't regret taking this type of class as I really do respect women and other cultures and love to hear varying opinions. But opinions are all you're gonna get.

*edited broken link