anthroposcotist

One who deploys the charge of anthropomorphism as an intellectual cudgel to extinguish, trivialize, or dismiss the overwhelmingly evidenced sentient, emotional, and social interior lives of non-human creatures — typically to preserve personal comfort, economic convenience, or ideological position — while performing the posture of scientific rigor they do not actually possess.

She waved away decades of elephant grief research with a tired sigh — a classic anthroposcotist, brandishing the word 'anthropomorphism' like a blindfold she'd sewn for herself.

anthroposcotist by WillfullyUnsmelling April 24, 2026