Does anyone else have a problem with the lack of epstimological rigor of feminist theory and criminology?

flaumo · 2025-11-01T08:37:37+00:00

I once did a term paper about bias in music recommender systems. It was based in this paper https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3406522.3446033

Men and women got equally recommended in the top 10, popular categories, but women were underrepresented, less than 50% of recommendations, in the less popular categories. Since this is injustice, we tuned the recommender, so men and women get equally represented in the less popular categories.

But here comes the kicker: Women made up 30-40% of the overall population, so they actually got recommended in a fair manner without the tuning, and were even overrepresented in the top 10 charts.

It is shoddy research, but I said nothing to keep the peace.

Specialist_Load_9953 · 2025-11-01T09:58:50+00:00

I posted something similar not so long ago, but more broadly about all feminist literature being misrepresented, misleading or fallacious.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates/s/e2PUiWhkyW

I even closed my post by challenging anyone to find 3 examples of this not being the case; it came at no surprise to me that I didn’t receive 1 let alone 3.

Electronic-Link-5792 · 2025-11-01T18:57:52+00:00

Yeah there is honestly such a shocking lack of rigour in feminist social science work that would get it labelled pseudoscience on any other field.

For example I saw a paper on domestic violence claiming that women who use violence do so only in self defence, and the sample they used to argue this was 120 couples from a MENS convicted abuser program. So their sample was chosen to specifically ask abusive men and women who were victims of abuse what their motive for using violence was. It was genuinely absurd to see them try to justify this.

There was another one which argued that men claiming to be victims of abuse showed abusive behaviour themselves, but in their actual data the only abusive behaviour they reported were accusing partners of cheating and driving recklessly. These are both clearly things that a victim of abuse might do in reaction to abuse yet the study did not even discuss that possibility which is such an extreme oversight that it just seems actively dishonest.

I could go on for hours on this topic.

Bitter_Emu6366 · 2025-11-01T19:34:55+00:00

Black Male Studies scholars have had a lot of feminists on the run due to this issue

UnabsolvedGuilt · 2025-11-02T06:01:06+00:00

one of the ways to evaluate the strength of a (non religious) philosophy is to see how well they resolve their own contradictions. feminism is the only philosophy of its kind that makes no attempt to do so, and feminists are actually very similar to religious apologists the way they will endlessly justify contradictions instead of truth seeking in any meaningful manner

that’s why a lot of cultural discourse is endlessly making and complaining abt observations. there are no proposed conclusions to even discuss bc there’d be a myriad of steps required to validate the methodology behind the observations and how they’re being used, which does nothing for a moment that wants to be defined by being the victims in every circumstance regardless of any change they’ve affected in the world.

at least in america, i think most feminists are a healthy mix of intellectually dishonest and plain ignorant abt american history, ethics, and law broadly speaking, yet constantly use their philosophy as a primary lens for engaging with politics. it’s pathetic.

anomnib · 2025-11-01T11:49:48+00:00

I wouldn’t pin this on feminism. As a social scientist, I find that whenever any discipline doesn’t require its students to take a significant amount of math and statistics, the caliber of quantitative research is bad.

I like how economics approaches things. To get into a top economics graduate school, you have to practically major in not just math or stats, but take the abstract (vs applied engineering) version of the math or stats classes. So the causal inference and experimentation departments of all the elite tech companies have very significant representation of economists. I’ve had no trouble advising people with PhDs in STEMs from top schools on how to better reason with data b/c of the expectations of math and statistics theoretical and applied fluency from my the culture of economics.

Sleeksnail · 2025-11-02T07:01:44+00:00

Right-wing epistemology: the claim is the argument and the evidence.

ExternalGreen6826 · 2025-11-01T10:01:02+00:00

Can you give an example of a feminist argument that is more of an axiom and fails reversibility tests

I’m used to reversing arguments or logics around to see if they are consistent so I’m interested in what you are specifically referring too?

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Qears4snears · 2025-11-06T00:54:04+00:00

Academia has just become a luxurious playpen that's essentially now just used to cordon off preening overindulged women with college degrees who have absolutely no practical use in society.

It's mind boggling to me how many trillions of dollars, both public and private, go to this effort. They invented a whole new corporate industry called HR just to quarantine these women and give them an endless array of microgrievances to ligate the very problem that women brought to the workforce, i.e.rarely being able regulate their emotions in a professional setting and way more interested in petty nonsense and emotional blackmail than actually doing any work.

I can't fathom how men in academia can even get out of bed and go and deal with that everyday. The entire thing is just a kafka-esque circus that's in the process of blowing itself up. It's impossible to take these women seriously and the middle class is finally catching on to this.

Title	Does anyone else have a problem with the lack of epstimological rigor of feminist theory and criminology?
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Date	November 1, 2025 12:55 AM UTC (9 months ago)
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