A horror story

There was a skilled nursing facility, providing residential aged care. A couple joined the facility when they felt they needed that extra help, and could no longer safely do home and garden maintenance any longer.

The first few months were a joy
They lived well They shared a kitchen with another three people, but had their own room, bathroom, and study. They could either cook, order from the central kitchen, or from a number of nearby places.
The gardens were nice, there was a bus service into town, and the communal entertainments good

My story.

I was an avid #notallmen guy.

I parsed every statement in terms of my inclusion in whatever population set was being referenced - men, whites, English-speakers, tall people, etc.

Whatever group was being specified , I would point out that "not all X" were guilty

/2 I had an epiphany while doing a philosophy course on postmodernism.

Whether it was Foucalt, Derrida, or Lyotard, someone else, or a combination, I can't remember.

Maybe it was the "fusion of horizons" thing, or the "interpretation of text" bit, but there was a moment

/3

Paul the #Mansplainer pushed a lot of text out there recently

It begs analysis and deconstruction of the archetype, perhaps from a Surrealist Ethnographic perspective.

So here’s a little Max Ernst meets Max Weber thread Paul deviates from the #mansplainer archetype in one way – most mansplainers do “well, actually” from colloquial to technical, Paul does the reverse.

Paul goes the other direction.

Other than that, let’s deconstruct My Dude the archetype

Twitter and other #SoMe are a fecund source of examples of scientific illiteracy.
There are a lot of people whose understanding of science entails two opponents slinging examples at each other. Examples of papers, websites, news articles that were cherry-picked to confirm a view Antivax vs vax, climate change deniers vs agreers, etc.

They start with an opinion, then look for confirmatory evidence.
They think that this is how science is done, and that"looking for evidence" is the essence of science.

Mostly what it does is entrench false beliefs, bias