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bastet-the-bass-cat
Finally... a PhD about chyuldless whining?! Really?! Is that how low academics have sunken nowadays??
His PhD is probably in sociology, and his ongoing research might well be on a different subject, even if his dissertation topic was something like 'perceptions of involuntarily childless men'. It's just that getting a PhD requires demonstrating that you can delve into a very specific subject and become an expert, which is why all PhD descriptions tend to sound ridiculously narrow. People also generally focus on minutiae that nobody else has shown interest in because it's easier to become an expert in something nobody else is trying to understand, and in that context I can see why male childlessness was a good topic to get a PhD in: he's probably one of the few people in the whole world who gives a fuck about it.
What I noticed is that for someone with a PhD, he really doesn't have a very scientific mind.
First, the generalizations! His research seemed to have involved a qualitative study, which implies small-scale and which does not allow generalization. His sample was probably self-selected men who are unhappy about being childless. What it allows him to do is to describe that the phenomenon exists (there are men unhappy about being childless) and the parameters of it (they experience sadness, hopelessness, etc), it doesn't allow him to generalize about the entire population of men without children.
Second, he spouts off statistics about 25% of men not having children and 20% of women not having them, as evidence that the male situation is worse. Yet there is no research that he mentions, or that I am aware of, which tackles the very important point of how. many. are. by. choice. I cannot look at those figures and say "25% of men are childfree!" and it's equally ridiculous for him to say "25% of men are involuntarily childless!"
Third, he makes assumptions galore, like that "broody" is a natural rather than social thing, which is
scientifically unjustified.. And of course in his personal life he exemplifies the bandwagon fallacy of confusing widespread with desirable (reproduction is common, therefore it is paramount).
In other words, he has the brain of a typical breeder, it's just lucky for the world that he hasn't reproduced.