IT’S LOOKING AS BAD AS THE GLOBAL ATTACK ON PHLOGISTON CHEMISTRY: Global Attack on Gender Studies. Live by politicization, die by politicization. From the comments: “Given the entire field is a gigantic intellectual void, populated only by progressive feel-good memes, this would seem to be a natural enough reaction, similar to why the study of phrenology failed in the 19th century.” Though possibly unfair to phrenology.