I appreciate this response and thank you for your engagement. I agree that science is a useful tool that is one of the best methods we have for understanding the world. It’s not the only method, though, and what I am interested in is how science is (mis)used to engender knowledge according to patriarchal gender norms. The masculinization of objectivity and feminization of subjectivity is implicit and should be discussed as a cultural phenomenon that bears relevance to what gets to count as truth and what gets invalidated as “just subjective.” My criticism applies to social sciences and especially psychology because there is so much posturing to be a science that epistemic violence becomes the norm and marginalized voices become objects of study to control instead of subjects of inquiry to understand. The department chair of psychology turned his back to me mid-sentence when I shared I was a qualitative researcher, which is a gesture that along with the way faculty get riled up by statistics shows me how soft science gets hard by imitating phallic masculinity.