The Professor Is In went off on Kimberly Hoang
https://www.facebook.com/TheProfessorIsIn/posts/2999097676803426
Karen Kelsky vs. Kimberly Hoang
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She is nothing outstanding in sexuality studies but in sociology. With berkeley name, world-famous advisers, and being political, she is successful. However, noone cares about what she it to say about sexualities around the world. She sells well in America thanks to these factors. However, she did nothing to really advance theories in sexualities and gender studies.
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Wow. I guess we just need to lean in more and start eating our bootstraps. Here is a thought. Why don’t places like Chicago stop admitting graduate students? Right, because that would take away the prestige as well as the cheap RA/ TA labor that people like KH profit from. The prestige of these institutions is intertwined with training grad students — most of them for unemployment. How can a sociologist be so ignorant and believe that is was solely her hard work and extra ordinary intelligence that landed her at an elite institution ?
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to be clear the "reasonable advice" here is (1) write a good dissertation, (2) accept that you're not getting an academic job, and (3) be grateful that you're not already unemployed
Hoang's advice seems reasonable enough to me. I don't get the big deal...that she invoked working-class background and she isn't from one?
send in the PC police STAT! -
— Omg based on their placement Chicago should admit 3 people per year — in a good job market year. I love how she makes the old guard look like they really cared about their students.Hoang is writing in the UChicago student newspaper. They are the students who, if they go into academia, are going to get the jobs.
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to be clear the "reasonable advice" here is (1) write a good dissertation, (2) accept that you're not getting an academic job, and (3) be grateful that you're not already unemployed
Hoang's advice seems reasonable enough to me. I don't get the big deal...that she invoked working-class background and she isn't from one?
send in the PC police STAT!That does seem to be the essence - but telling someone they should be grateful when they are struggling is what smacks of privilege, particularly in the way she did. There are ways to frame it that are more empathetic
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that seems like a pretty generous reaction to "I survived the job market aftermath of the 2008 recession by taking personal responsibility and you can too" - people are losing their jobs, kim!
I don't know what any of you are talking about. I guess I just saw it as non-advice.
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I grew up in a poor neighborhood and started doing manual labor at 15. I kind of sympathize with the article, but it may be particular to my background.
I applied for grad school. I was told your stipend is x, your benefits are x, it's going to be hard to get a job. Take it or leave it. There's a lot of pain that followed, but that's exactly what I signed the dotted line for, and I knew what I was getting myself into.
I am, however, offended at how poorly grad students are treated and how difficult it can be to get a good paying job, when I see universities being turned into emerging adult amusement parks and coach/admin salaries. I'm full time at an R1, and having to do extra classes to get a family of four above the poverty line. I get that was the risk that I signed up for. But people like me the show running more than certain people who get paid a lot more do and almost as much as the student on-campus arcade.