Pessimism, Paralysis, and Possibility: Crisis-Points in Profeminism
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Has men's anti-sexist or profeminist activism been following “a path from optimism to pessimism,” as Lynne Segal claims? An examination of documents produced by profeminist groups in North America and Britain suggests that “crisis” (a state of change) may be a more helpful description of profeminism today. Within these documents, certain key or resonant terms illustrate conflicts that challenge idealized concepts of group “unity” and provide insights into attitudes surrounding these conflicts. These conflicts and crises can destabilize “unity” to the point where attempts to sustain centralized, politically motivated profeminist organizations like NOMAS are jeopardized. While this may be cause for pessimism, the crises experienced by such groups may also be transformative, opening up possibilities for other forms of profeminist activism.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it