caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

Reading a series of "the feminine/masculine urge to—" jokes and randomly struck by the horrible remembrance that one of the most revered autism researchers in the field to this fucking day has published "theories of autism" which are a) taken absolutely seriously by most of the field, and b) consist of literally no more substance than "men are like this! and women are like this! and autistics are like [horrific antique pseudoscience stereotype]! which if you plot a line of best fit through them, means autism is having a Man Brain, but too much"


caffeinatedOtter
@caffeinatedOtter

There's a joke I once heard about physics as an academic discipline, which goes "how do you get new facts about physics accepted? Simple: wait for all currently tenured physicists to die of old age" and it's not that I want that guy to die, necessarily, but god when he does I hope it presages the end of the line for every last one of his followers and their barbaric pseudoscience


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