Does anyone else encounter the situation where, when confronted with a challenge to certain ideas, the response sounds like the following: &quot;look it up in the literature&quot; or &quot;you don&#x27;t understand the basics and therefore you are ignorant&quot;? I have noticed this in particular to do with this ideology of gender etc.<p>It appears to me that this implies that these ideas are beliefs that rely on faith in the belief and that challenging the belief is considered a sign of ignorance at best and a conscious attack at worst. It seems to me that all a questioner need to do is educate themselves in the correct literature and there would be no need to question anymore. To challenge the belief of faith creates incomprehensibility in the holder of the beliefs as it implies that the belief is not certain and can be open to challenge. Thus the most common reply to a question about the certainty of the beliefs is a urgent request to educate themselves.