#133 | Why Feminist Studies Don’t Belong in Academia

About this episode

Anya Shakh interviews Professor Marc J. Defant about the implications of feminist studies in academia and its disconnect from empirical truth.

About This Episode In this guest episode I sit down with Professor Marc J. Defant, Professor of Geology and Geochemistry whose work spans the physical sciences and evolutionary psychology. Recently he published a peer-reviewed paper in Sexuality & Culture titled “Evolutionary Psychology and the Crisis of Empirical Rigor in Feminist Studies” - https://rdcu.be/eOkjZ The paper argues that much of modern feminist scholarship is ideology and not grounded in any truth. Professor Defant and I discuss how social constructivism has created confusion about relationships, work, masculinity, and femininity. We explore human evolution, parental investment theory, cross-cultural studies of mate selection preferences, and much more. Listen in to learn how feminism might have broken an old template but has gone too far in denying human nature, why suppressing sex differences actually clarifies them more, the real roots of the pay gap, and what’s really going on between men and women today. Get in touch with Professor Marc J. Defant here: https://www.marcdefant.com/about/ -Watch his TED talk here: https://youtu.be/_nCOhrYV7eg?si=SmxngOyM1fTCaO1aTIMESTAMPS: TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 — Intro &amp…

People in this episode

Host: Anya Shakh

Guest: Marc J. Defant

Topics covered

• feminist studies
• evolutionary psychology
• social constructivism
• gender differences
• human evolution

Keywords

• feminism
• gender roles
• pay gap
• human nature
• mate selection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sexuality & Culture, TED

Books & works: Evolutionary Psychology and the Crisis of Empirical Rigor in Feminist Studies

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