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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Why is Philosophy male-dominated?
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There are obvious socio-cultural reasons that has caused Philosophy to be male-dominated throughout history, like many of the other academic and high-ranking professions.

But there has been a deeper, methodological criticism that the profession has a bias in its approach and perspective that skews male or masculine, and in this way has failed to accommodate women and in turn a much needed perspective-- all the while under the guise of objectivity. Feminist Ethics, for example, in part seeks to undercover these implicit biases, countering what were once traditional views that women were unconcerned or not intelligent enough to comprehend their own moral duties.

Another now famous example in Continental philosophy is the claims of Phenomenology concerning embodiment. From Husserl's notion of *epoche*, the bracketing of phenomenal experience, to Merleau-Ponty's views on sexuality, there's been criticism that these popular or highly publicized views have actually ostracized perspectives that don't match what is taken as universal or common, or implies that men have unfettered access.