... anti-gender politics is an epistemic conflict as much as a political one. This conflict generates political fatigue among researchers engaged in feminist and queer work. We must address such fatigue through distance, care and collective reflection
Across Europe and beyond, anti-gender actors increasingly portray gender studies, feminist research, and queer scholarship as ideology rather than science. Beyond undermining rights, anti-gender discourses, mobilisations, and policies target the concepts, methods and communities that make gender and sexuality research possible.
Concepts such as gender, intersectionality, sexual orientation and gender identity are no longer simply activist, institutional, academic, or legal terms. Anti-gender actors now use these concepts in propaganda. They frame the relationship of gender studies, queer theory, feminist research and LGBTIQ+ scholarship with activism and social movements as a threat to children, women, families, and freedom. Politicians, parties, and moral entrepreneurs weaponise these so-called threats, as do activists and academics appropriating radical feminist theories in anti-gender, anti-LGBTIQ+, and anti-trans terms. ...
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/the-political-fatigue-of-doing-feminist-and-queer-research-in-anti-gender-times/
The heartlessness of women is not succumbing to their gobbledegook and causing their fragile research identities outpoorings not to be taken as "science".
Get the ducking stool ready.