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Originally Posted by Adder
No, it's an academic feminist word. Given your already demonstrated ignorance, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt about knowing that, although maybe had you actually read the wikipedia link...
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I don't think most liberal arts academics are terribly serious people. If you were trying to solve a serious problem with a pragmatic response, would you invite a liberal arts academic who'd never worked outside a campus to offer input? Maybe. But hesitantly at best.
I liked drinking with liberal arts academics. I like navel gazing with liberal arts academics. But they very rarely have the capacity to engage in pragmatic problem solving. That's a lot of why they self-select to where they are.
ETA: I took loads of classes on feminist themes in literature. First, all deconstruction of books is kind of mental masturbation. These themes people claim to find are rarely if ever actually intended by the author. But those classes were uniquely silly. We'd find references to menstruation in some 15th century poem that clearly was not really there. We'd torture texts to come up with feminist or chauvinist intent where none was present. Oddly, we never read
Fear of Flying in those classes. That was introduced to me by a salty old male professor: "This is a book about a woman having sex they way she feels like having sex." He was right. And that's all anyone had to say about that book.
