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Whereas "women's studies" as a discipline has earned its reputation because many such departments are themselves anti-intellectual, substituting the dogma of identity politics for academic scholarship.
I'm not familiar with any reputation IRT women's studies one way or another. Does the word only get out in humanities circles or what?
why would she wait until now to think about this? Shouldn't she have thought about this before declaring the major?
No. See below re: harboring resentments and slights.
Some man should have told her that before all those hours listening to extremist rant.
Men!
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Well, with a Women's Studies degree, you really get to hone your ability to resent others to a very fine point.
You'll gain an incredible ability to fume at even the most innocent jokes in the conference room.
What's more, you'll learn how to file a grievance letter with HR in 4.5 seconds.
As an added bonus, learn how to decorate your cubicle with photos of your five cats and little posters that read, "A Woman Has To Do Twice The Work As A Man To Be Considered As Good. Fortunately, That Is Not Difficult."
Learn how to select outre styles of attire that do not conform to the rest of the office, and then demand to know why you're not being invited into major client meetings.
Discover how to cultivate petty slights and nurture them into full-blown conspiracies against your gender.
Find out how to own your very own Feminist Bookstore. They're a lot less expensive to start up, mainly because you won't require a Humor section.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Good points!
Now, where is the humor section?
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What you do with a women's studies degree is say "I have a degree and didn't have to work very hard at it except to make sure I accurately regurgitated the sociopolitical dogma that was belched at me."
If you get good grades, it will probably be sufficient to get you into a grad program; but by itself in the working world it won't exactly set you apart from everyone else who got a degree that they didn't have to work very hard at.
Wait, wait, you're starting to remind me of many of our Great National Leaders who granulated from haavahd and y-ale.
You're not saying some degrees aren't all they're cracked up to be are youse?
Wait, wait, you're starting to remind me of many of our Great National Leaders who granulated from haavahd and y-ale.
You're not saying some degrees aren't all they're cracked up to be are youse?
Just sayin' that it won't open any more doors than any other liberal arts degree. Today's liberal arts degree is yesterday's high school diploma: it just says "I can jump through X number of hoops" more than it prepares you for any specific field.
BA in Women's studies is only useful if you're a guy. It's only useful if you could practice what you learn by finding & marrying a rich woman, and manipulating them, so that you don't have to work....
Other than that it's pretty useless....
Haha. You know, I was engaged in wymmnnz studiez for years, but I never matriculated.
How tragic, to think what I could have done with a degree...
Just sayin' that it won't open any more doors than any other liberal arts degree. Today's liberal arts degree is yesterday's high school diploma: it just says "I can jump through X number of hoops" more than it prepares you for any specific field.
As with all standards of performance, a bachelor's degree has been watered down considerably in the years since WWII, aka The Greatest War.
A high school grad in the 20s or 30s would run rings around a typical BA today regarding ability to think logically and independently, general fund of knowledge, and standars of courtesy and behavior.
One of the most interesting experiences I had in the eddymikayshin field was visiting an "olde colony schoole" years ago. The one room schoolhouse was truly a revelation.
One exercise I remember in particular. Four groups of kids were either reciting or singing four different verses/songs. They would cut in and out, and everyone had to keep their concentration together enough to stay on track and keep to their script. Most adults I know probably couldn't do this today.
They didn't kid around in the days before unions gained control and essentially destroyed education's mission in the USA.
Now you get PC rants in place of real knowledge. Progress.
I am familiar with Summers comments. I am a woman. I am a scientist. I work in Cambridge. My co is in bed with MIT. I'm all too familiar with the hoopla resulting from his crap. I have not come across anything about women's studies IRT Summers assinine comments. I've had this conversation before with ill-prepared, lackluster, sexists. Again, the question is posed to you.
Ah, super. The dogmatic, combative rhetoric makes it clear why you're oblivious to the reputation that women's studies has garnered as an academic discipline.
I've had this conversation before with shrill harpies who would rather hurl invectives than even allow the mere mention -- not the support of, but mere mention -- of the hypothesis that men and women have different cognitive abilities. That is, when they're not abandoning their "strong woman" pose to turn their palm outward against their forehead and faint at the offront to their delicate sensibilities at having to hear such a hypothesis mentioned in their presence.
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