"Dog" is a social construction. How can we interrogate the ideology that sustains it?
Confessions
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I think European sociology is more interesting than American positivist psuedo science.
I'm sorry, how tf is this getting upvotes? Am I reading the wrong euro soc papers? Is it just so happening to be the case that whenever I come across one that seems useful, the theory is vague and untestable? Is it coincidence that the methods are amateurish? Is my sample severely skewed?
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I hope the radfems win in their attempt to protect the definition of womanhood. No one who doesn’t get menstrual cramps or hot flashes should get to call themselves women. And I think the radfems are right that at least some transwomen are just objectifying women. Why not call yourself a “transwoman” and leave at that?
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>>Is it wrong to reject a candidate if they publish in Grollbaby's edited volume? (confession in this post is obviously an implied one).
no, it would doing them a favor saving them from a department who looks down on scholarship that dares to decenter straight white men.
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I am totally there with A079. I’d much prefer teaching undergrads than grads. The grads are often a little too arrogant, like they think they’re already experts (even as first years). Undergrads are still excited by the material and want to understand the world. Also, because my PhD program is lower ranked, we don’t get the best grads. Some of my undergrads have more potential than my current grads.
The worst academic poseurs and the most pretentious 25yo I've met were early-years grad students at VLRM departments. Special shout-out to those who dress and speak like a bad caricature of a tweed-clad Oxford professor, who generally have awful(ly pretentious) academic taste. They also had a lot of arguments to explain why they were just as smart as Harvard students (or to ridicule the idea of prestige hierarchy in academia) that no one asked for but that we still had to hear.
I'm not saying there aren't self-important a-holes at VHRM departments, but at least they are a bit more subtle.
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The worst academic poseurs and the most pretentious 25yo I've met were early-years grad students at VLRM departments. Special shout-out to those who dress and speak like a bad caricature of a tweed-clad Oxford professor, who generally have awful(ly pretentious) academic taste. They also had a lot of arguments to explain why they were just as smart as Harvard students (or to ridicule the idea of prestige hierarchy in academia) that no one asked for but that we still had to hear.
I'm not saying there aren't self-important a-holes at VHRM departments, but at least they are a bit more subtle.
VLRM grad here: Yeah, people like that have a giant chip on their shoulder. My fellow grads and I just want to punch them all in the throat so badly.
We settle for systematically excluding them because no one can stand to be around them.
I like smart people and I'm willing to let a lot slide (e.g., maybe you're a little socially weird), but life is too short to spend more time around pricks than you absolutely have to.