A purity culture within communities that elevate "evidence-based" as the supreme standard of legitimacy, where proper relationship to evidence becomes a test of virtue and belonging. Evidence-based puritanism demands that true members base all claims on approved kinds of evidence (usually quantitative, experimental, published in high-impact journals), treat other forms of knowledge as illegitimate, and maintain the purity of evidentiary standards against contamination by alternative ways of knowing. Members compete to demonstrate their evidentiary rigor, their commitment to "what the evidence shows," their willingness to dismiss anything that doesn't meet their standards. The result is a community that claims to value evidence while being dogmatically closed to the full range of human knowledge, treating "evidence-based" as a club rather than a commitment.
Example: "She cited decades of community experience, and they dismissed it as 'anecdotal'—Evidence-Based Puritanism, where only their kind of evidence counts, and anyone who doesn't have it is simply ignored."
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Get the Evidence-Based Puritanism mug.A small liberal arts college situated in Tacoma, Washington. Referred to as UPS, Puget Sound, or The Puge by its students. Said students love insisting how they are all "So QuIrKy AnD dIfFeReNt" when in reality, they can all be categorized as:
1). Pretentious Bay Area snobs who couldn't get into University of Washington and love cosplaying poor whilst posing Instagram stories of their lavish spring breaks in Phuket.
2). White women (and some men) who flaunt how liberal and anti-racist they are, despite making some highly questionable/disconnected comments regarding people of color and getting offended if anyone where to dare point out their very obvious social privilege.
3). Men who delusionally think that feminism is a myth and consent is optional whilst wearing crop tops and pretending to be gay/bisexual for the sole purpose of sleeping with women.
4). Everybody else (people of color, trans people, disabled people, etc.) who got lured into coming to Puget Sound due to the so-called "progressive campus culture" and scholarships that will only be revoked within a couple of years.
The campus is notoriously cliquey; students are united by the common UPS culture of being nice to your face and gossiping behind your back. Social events are few and far between, especially if you don't like second-rate parties and excessive drinking. Greek Life is an entirely separate bubble from the rest of campus full of petty drama, social engineering, and cultish fervor.
1). Pretentious Bay Area snobs who couldn't get into University of Washington and love cosplaying poor whilst posing Instagram stories of their lavish spring breaks in Phuket.
2). White women (and some men) who flaunt how liberal and anti-racist they are, despite making some highly questionable/disconnected comments regarding people of color and getting offended if anyone where to dare point out their very obvious social privilege.
3). Men who delusionally think that feminism is a myth and consent is optional whilst wearing crop tops and pretending to be gay/bisexual for the sole purpose of sleeping with women.
4). Everybody else (people of color, trans people, disabled people, etc.) who got lured into coming to Puget Sound due to the so-called "progressive campus culture" and scholarships that will only be revoked within a couple of years.
The campus is notoriously cliquey; students are united by the common UPS culture of being nice to your face and gossiping behind your back. Social events are few and far between, especially if you don't like second-rate parties and excessive drinking. Greek Life is an entirely separate bubble from the rest of campus full of petty drama, social engineering, and cultish fervor.
The University of Puget Sound is a great school if you are rich, white, cisgender, and fully-abled!
I went to University of Puget Sound because they gave me a really good scholarship. Too bad they raised the cost of tuition so high that the scholarship doesn't even matter!
Here at the University of Puget Sound, we believe that SA survivors should get no support or justice whatsoever, because that requires us to make an effort for our students!
I went to University of Puget Sound because they gave me a really good scholarship. Too bad they raised the cost of tuition so high that the scholarship doesn't even matter!
Here at the University of Puget Sound, we believe that SA survivors should get no support or justice whatsoever, because that requires us to make an effort for our students!
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Get the Olivia’s Johnson’s rice purity test mug.An internet rule dictating that those who condemn and demonize fan service for normal, sane people often define themselves as queer or as LGBTQ "allies".
Such individuals will often engage in gaslighting tactics, equating physically attractive female characters to pornography or maintain that ugly or masculine-looking female characters are better because of "realism", even in otherwise fantastical settings and despite the escapist nature of fiction. This is a bizarro mirror image of conservative Christian puritanism that such people often found themselves opposed to in previous decades.
Such individuals will often engage in gaslighting tactics, equating physically attractive female characters to pornography or maintain that ugly or masculine-looking female characters are better because of "realism", even in otherwise fantastical settings and despite the escapist nature of fiction. This is a bizarro mirror image of conservative Christian puritanism that such people often found themselves opposed to in previous decades.
"OMG, what do you care what Mary Jane Watson looks like? Shut up, your porn-brained incel!"
"You have pronouns and pride flags in your twitter bio and your likes are full of futa. The Iron Law of Bizarro Queer Puritanism remains undefeated."
"You have pronouns and pride flags in your twitter bio and your likes are full of futa. The Iron Law of Bizarro Queer Puritanism remains undefeated."
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