Evolutionary psychology: an affront to feminism?

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1. The danger to some feminist theory

and some feminists is that evolutionary psychology reattaches human behavior to empirical research. Feminism, like any other ideology, is subject to the danger of becoming an end in itself rather than a means to an end in the real world.

When people fixate on ideological dogma the fundamentalism that results can be very divisive and counterproductive. Fundamentalists, regardless of the belief, seem to exhibit the same behavior. Accusations of heresy, arbitrary litmus tests, retreats to dogma when challenged, and rampart authoritarianism seem to be the norm. And it's difficult to spot them consistently among all the One True Scotsmen.