A Proposal for a New Rule, with the Aim of Improving the Social Sciences and the Humanities

If you submit to a journal or conference a paper the title of which starts with the word "Beyond", the paper gets desk-rejected immediately. If you submit a paper the title of which starts with the word "Rethinking", a graduate student is made to give you a total of three (3) anonymous, vaguely threatening calls. If, however, you have the cheek to write a paper the title of which includes both the words "Beyond" and "Rethinking", like, oh, "Rethinking Gentrification: Beyond the Uneven Development of Marxist Urban Theory" or "Beyond the Binary: Rethinking the Social Model of Disabled Sexuality", then you get hit over the head with the complete works of Marx and Engels until you have managed to explain the difference between nominal and ordinal variables, i.e., in your case, probably until you're dead.