An Orwelexicon for Bias and Dysfunction in Psychology and Academia

Quillette ^ | January 29, 2020 | Lee Jussim

[karpov]

In this essay, I introduce a slew of neologisms—new words—to capture the tone and substance of much discourse, rhetoric, dysfunction, and bias in academia and psychology. It’s partly inspired by an article entitled ‘Lexicon for Gender Bias in Academia and Medicine’ by Drs Choo and May in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), although that one was coming at this from a different perspective. They argued that “mansplaining” was just the “tip of the iceberg” and so coined terms such as “Himpediment,” defined as a “man who stands in the way of progress of women.”

Adminomania: A delusion that increased administrative and bureaucratic intrusions into people’s lives will actually improve something, fueled primarily by a pervasive blindness to unintended negative side effects. See Title IX.

Athletic gynocide: The elimination from sports competitions of people identified at birth by doctors or other adults as female because they cannot successfully compete with people identified at birth by doctors or other adults as males but who identify as females.

Bias bias: A bias for seeing biases, often manifesting as either claiming bias when none exists, exaggerating biases that do exist, or overgeneralizing to large swaths of life from studies finding bias in some narrow or specific context.

Biomindophobia: Fear that biology influences the mind.

Blancofemophobia: Prejudice against white women, as exemplified by dismissing the beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors of white women with phrases such as, “White women white womening.” See here for a real-world example.

Brexistential fear: An irrational fear that Brexit will lead to the end of the world as we know it.

Brophobia: Fear of men having a conversation among themselves.

Chapeaurougeauphobia: Fear and loathing of Trump supporters.

Cisandrophobia: Fear of and prejudice against heterosexual men.

Decontextaphilia: An unhealthy attraction to quoting others out of context.

[karpov]

This is a good summary of the dogma of academia and the Left. Jussim is a non-PC professor who co-authored a paper "Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology" finding that common stereotypes tend to be true, when regarded as statistical generalizations.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[EasySt]

"Chapeaurougeauphobia: Fear and loathing of Trump supporters. "

Nice one!

[yesthatjallen]

Transphobia, homophobia, and Islmophobia are made-up terms not on the list.

BTW, how did you post an article from Quillette? I tried before and IIRC FR would not let me post the article.

[EasySt]

Chapeaurougeauphobia leads to...

[karpov]

I post Quillette articles without doing anything special.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Saving this lexicon, love it.

[Little Pig]

I am SO going to steal “Quackademic”. Just beautiful.

[yesthatjallen]

OK, thanks.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

“Emotional imperialism” is the best one of all; it really explains a lot of nonsense.