Boghossian-Lindsay-Pluckrose Bias

A version of Sokal Bias named after the architects of the "Grievance Studies Affair"—the hoax papers submitted to academic journals in fields like gender studies, queer theory, and fat studies. The Boghossian-Lindsay-Pluckrose Bias uses the existence of these hoaxes to dismiss entire fields as fraudulent, ignoring that the hoax revealed weaknesses in peer review, not the worthlessness of disciplines. The bias assumes that because some bad papers were accepted, all work in these fields is suspect; because hoaxes succeeded, the fields themselves are hoaxes. It's Sokalism weaponized, using a single scandal to condemn entire traditions of scholarship.

Example: "He cited the grievance studies hoax as proof that gender studies was worthless. The Boghossian-Lindsay-Pluckrose Bias had done its work: one scandal, entire field dismissed. He never read the actual scholarship, never engaged with real arguments. The hoax was all the evidence he needed."

by Abzugal March 8, 2026

Boghossianism-Lindsayism-Pluckroseism

A version of Sokalism emerging from the Grievance Studies Affair, where the hoax is treated not as a critique of peer review but as definitive proof that entire fields are intellectually bankrupt. Boghossianism-Lindsayism-Pluckroseism is the ideology that because hoax papers were accepted, the fields they targeted (gender studies, queer theory, etc.) are illegitimate; because some scholarship is bad, all scholarship in those areas is worthless. It's Sokalism systematized, turned into a worldview that justifies dismissing vast areas of inquiry without engagement. Followers of this ideology don't need to read feminist theory; they just need to know about the hoax.

Example: "He'd built his entire critique of gender studies on the grievance studies hoax. Boghossianism-Lindsayism-Pluckroseism meant he never had to read actual feminist theory; the hoax told him everything he needed to know. He could dismiss an entire field based on a handful of fake papers—and feel intellectually superior doing it."

by Abzugal March 8, 2026

County Lines

County Lines: A term describing the expansion of urban UK drug gangs into rural areas. These gangs sometimes exploit vulnerable people — including children — to push potent, cheap hard drugs like crack and heroin, flooding places where supply is usually thin. Then cuckooing, vunlenble people taking over someone’s home, is a common tactic used. The lifestyle is often glamorised by UK drill rap YouTube videos , where wannabe gangsters hanging around in council estates in groups wearing facemasks designer clothing flexing luxury watches worth more than flats houses and cruise around in high-end cars like Lamborghini Uruses. But behind the fake image and online persona the reality is simple: most of them end up skint, dead, or nicked, or doing long stretches in prison — basically, their life is ruined.

Lee: Frank, have you seen them county lines dealers flexing their high-end cars, luxury watches, designer clothes hanging round with them super hot birds on YouTube bruv ?

Frank: You think that lifestyle is real your a mug bruv. Most are dead or in jail now, Bruv.

Lee: really bruv ? LOL.

by Jamie Cheese December 9, 2025

pullin a lindsey

an exspression used when someone logs onto stickam and talks on the fone while her other friend conversate amongst each other. :)) <3

-fuck... she is pullin a lindsey!
- really? tell her to get off.
-no its cool i will just sit and watch pathetically

by HxC Stisti June 27, 2009

spendy rv lineston

another more truthful name for williston,nd.why you ask? everything is expensive,there are rv's everywhere that has a parking space! and there long lines for everything!!There are no women here,except the married and under age. What the fuck over?

(williston nd should have been named spendy rv lineston.)

by buddhathehun January 16, 2012

coming up lindsey

when you get bit in the face by a cat

I just got bit in the face by a cat! Everything is coming up Lindsey....

by _lindseystan September 28, 2019

Break the Lines

some dumbass on the internet on an app called Amino.

oh wow it's that dumbass Break the Lines.

by FearAllEvil October 25, 2020