[Xmca-l] Re: A Gender Gap in CHAT

[Huw Lloyd]

One requires reasoning to succinctly articulate, and viably defend, a
minority position.

On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 17:52, James Ma <jamesma320@gmail.com> wrote:

> As I see it, “politically correct” is no less than a political precept.
> More to the point, it’s becoming all the more a cliché, old and rusty.
> Apolitical linguists (like myself) wouldn’t take a slight interest in that,
> as you might expect.
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> Sadly, students with a heightened awareness of “political correctness”
> appear to be much less theoretically observant and have limited academic
> acumen in their writing, almost across all degree levels.
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> A utilitarianist approach to higher education is seemingly looming up –
> particularly in institutions where *how-you-are-smart* predominates
> *how-smart-you-are* – this seems to have already deepened an existing
> ontological chasm between what might be termed traditional and
> non-traditional academic staff.
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> James
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> *From: *David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com>
> *Sent: *08 July 2020 04:59
> *To: *eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> *Subject: *[Xmca-l] A Gender Gap in CHAT
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> "Politically correct" is really incorrect, politically. I don't just mean
> that it has long since gone from being an inside joke on the left to being
> a bugaboo-boogaloo of the right and now an excuse for the overt,
> shameless propagation of racist filth, even on this list. I mean that the
> issues we are discussing under this heading are often sub-political, or
> only very subtley political, and reducing them to political stance taking
> means ignoring their real roots: economic, social, and cultural. That's why
> I really resisted the idea that my graduate student can fight patriarchy by
> refusing to teach a lesson in which two boys arm wrestle for a trophy
> girlfriend. It really makes a lot more sense to trust in teachers to teach
> the lesson critically, and trust in learners to learn skeptically. Besides,
> what's the point of saving your own soul if it costs you the rest of the
> world? (There is a feminist novel making the rounds here in Korea that
> refers to sexual harrassment, marriage, childbirth and almost every
> imaginable form of gender gap and somehow manages not to refer to female
> desire at all--understandably, the kids prefer K-pop, even though some of
> the K-pop stars have actually started reading it!)
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> I just read Perezhivanie, Emotions, and Subjectivity, which is the first
> volume of the Perspectives in Cultural Historical Research series that
> Nikolai and I are contributing to. There is much to commend, and even more
> to object to, but what really struck me is that we have a kind of gender
> gap within CHAT itself: the empirical classroom data is almost always
> supplied by younger women, and the theoretical, philosophical musings are
> heavily gendered towards older men. This tendency goes from the editors
> of the volume right down to the references and even the bibliography. Of
> course,  this gender gap--our own gender gap--is a reflection of the
> societies that we live in (from the early USSR right up to our present
> day). Of course, the editors and the authors and even the learners in the
> volume are all doing what they can to overcome it in various ways. But
> instead of going away, it tends to create a noticeable gap between theory
> and praxis. there is always a slight rumble and grinding of gears, a jump
> cut, when the article switches from "Theoretical Background" to
> "Study".  There is nothing quite comparable in, say, systemic functional
> linguistics. (Interestingly, systemic functional linguistics has a lot
> of intellectual "power couples", where both husband and wife are both
> theorists and practioners....) :
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> David Kellogg
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