Learn 'em, use 'em, make 'em catch on. There are some gems here people, so share this post all over and get people using these. Emotional imperialism is one that can really catch fire.
[Medium] 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.”
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Misteria: Irrational fear that advancing women means catastrophic lack of opportunity for men.
This Orwelexicon is offered in a similar spirit of capturing biases, albeit quite different ones, that pervade academia. It is also a bit different, at least sometimes, because these words often capture the Orwellian disingenuousness with which some terms are used in academia.
| A long list of cute, defined terms in alphabetical order. |
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