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Dr Michael Flood

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13 Oct

Men, gender, and privilege 1/6: Privilege is “systematically conferred advantages individuals enjoy by virtue of their membership in dominant groups”. Male privilege is the flipside of female disadvantage. xyonline.net/content/undoin…

Men, gender, and privilege 2/6: Privilege often is invisible to those who receive it. So while some men acknowledge that women are disadvantaged, they are less willing to recognise that they are correspondingly privileged. xyonline.net/content/undoin…

Men, gender, and privilege 3/6: Privilege is normalised. Privileged lives become the dominant norm. The dominant group’s characteristics become the basis for measuring success. Men are seen as “normal”, the norm is unmarked, and men are seen as representative of all humanity

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27 Sep

PhD supervisors as co-authors of their students' work: PhD supervisors should only be named as co-authors if they have made a *direct and significant* contribution to the publication. Supervision, feedback, or the provision of funding *do not* justify inclusion as an author 1/9

An author is “an individual who has made a significant intellectual contribution to the study” (Elsevier). Authorship "should be limited to those individuals who have contributed in a meaningful and substantive way to its intellectual content.” (Yale Office of the Provost) 2/9

Guidelines on authorship are very clear. For example, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) recommends authorship be based on 4 criteria. All should meet all 4 criteria, and all who meet the 4 should be identified as authors. icmje.org/recommendation… 3/9

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Dr Michael Flood

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26 Sep

Debates over trans, sex, and gender 1/23: This journal article spells out feminist concerns over recent legal proposals with regard to trans people. A detailed, scholarly expression of feminist, ‘gender critical’ assessment of common arguments. In full: xyonline.net/sites/xyonline…

The proposed Equality Act “fails to strike a balance between the rights, needs, and interests of two marginalized (and overlapping) groups — trans people and females — and instead prioritizes the demands of trans people over the hard-won rights of female people.” 2/23

The proposed Equality Act “would allow *any* male at *any* time to claim access to female-only spaces or provisions on the basis of a gender identity claim”, extending this both to transwomen and to predatory or opportunist males 3/23

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Dr Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

24 Sep

Shore School scandal: More thoughts. The planned tasks for the Year 12 boys’ ‘muck-up day’ included potential sexual assaults and sexual humiliations of girls and women. Coercive and deceptive behaviour, that would cause real harm. 1/8

What’s the explanation? Hypermasculine and sexist peer cultures. Including a sense of entitlement and a ‘born to rule’ mentality. Tight group loyalties and the exclusion of others. Codes of silence and cover-up. 2/8

Sexist, harassing, and sexual coercive behaviour also has been visible in other all-male or male-dominated contexts: other boys’ schools, military university, sporting codes, all-male residential campus colleges, and workplaces. This stuff isn't 'bad apples', it's cultural. 3/8

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Dr Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

24 Sep

COVID-19 is disproportionately devastating minority communities, in Britain and elsewhere. The pandemic is exposing broader inequalities, systemic injustice and official denial. Gary Younge. newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20… 1/5

COVID-19’s unequal impact: Because minority communities are more likely to be poor, and poor people are more likely to be vulnerable. To live in deprived neighbourhoods and to experience higher unemployment, higher poverty, lower incomes, and overcrowding than white people 2/5

These groups *do not* have culture or genetics in common. But they *do* share a common experience of povery, low pay and poor housing – and all the things that go with that, including ill health – that make them susceptible to coronavirus. And concentrations in risky jobs. 3/5

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Dr Michael Flood

@MichaelGLFlood

22 Sep

Men Have No Friends and Women Bear the Burden. The idea that feelings are a "female thing" has left a generation of straight men stranded on emotionally-stunted island, unable to forge intimate relationships with other men. Women pay the price. harpersbazaar.com/culture/featur…

The key takeaways from this piece: 1/3: 1) Men are socialised to avoid emotional expression. 2) Men thus tend to have weaker, less intimate friendships than women. 3) As a result, heterosexual men often try to get all their emotional needs met by their female intimate partners.

2/3 4) This is bad for men. Limits their sources of support, makes them more vulnerable e.g. if separation. 5) And it’s bad for women: is a burden, have to do all the emotional labour.

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