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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Although Franz Joseph Gall made an important contribution to neuroscience proposing the functional localization of specific psychological traits, his analysis was far from correct, leading to the pseudoscientific field of phrenology.

The direct consequence of phrenology can be seen as a talking point for a specific community on the internet known as "incels" who attribute size of the body parts of man (and in many such cases, to that of women) to intelligence and strength. This is nothing but a very misogynistic argument that is the result of patriarchal capitalism.

Recent studies have found such "incel" talking points in twitter.com users to analyse politicians, and it is a future implication to research how these two areas intersect