A graduate assistant at the University of Cincinnati wrote that “intelligence is a White man’s mythology.” The graduate assistant, who has published academic research papers, said that calling females “smart” is “sexist.”
A University of Cincinnati graduate assistant wrote that “intelligence is a White man’s mythology.”
“Stop calling your female colleagues ‘smart,’ or ‘clever,’ or ‘brilliant,’” wrote Mel Andrews, who studies cognition and evolution. “It’s sexist and infantilising… it shouldn’t be surprising to you in 2021 that women are capable of thought.”
“You’re doing the same thing when you describe your Black and Latino students as ‘very bright,’” added Andrews.
“Intelligence is a White man’s mythology. A phantasmal concept. A non-referring term. Syncategorematic,” she wrote.
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