The year began on a highbrow note as the University of Denver’s Professor Ryan Evely Gildersleeve informed the world that laziness is a “a political stance,” a way to “combat the neoliberal condition,” and a “tool for contributing to social justice.” Half-arsed incompetence is, we were assured, both radical and empowering. The professor also shared his belief that plastic is sentient.
Inanimate objects also troubled Dr Jane Bone, a senior lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, who specialises in “feminist post-structural perspectives” and the political implications of problematic furniture. Dr Bone’s research involves quite a lot of “embodied knowing,” i.e., visiting IKEA and sitting on chairs. Her work, she revealed, is “not necessarily logical.”
Further feminist insights came via Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, whose feminist fight club is “a mode of resistance,” because the spectacle of unhappy ladies body-slamming each other and breaking each other’s ribs is an obvious way to “destroy the Conservative government” and “bring down the patriarchy.”
That’s January. There’s another eleven months to get through.
Asshats all; but the problem__atic is the airheads being sat on.
Insanity has become the new normal.
Bingo! To be seen in many disciplines. How civilizations die. See Athens and Rome.
Now I know why the ancients needed to invent vomitoriums … I’m looking for mine, after reading this.
I helped my grandson assemble a wooden model of Da Vinci’s catapult – very instructive and a lot of fun. And then I read the garbage put out by self indulgent, mind numbing, gold fish bowl academics and I am so glad that I took engineering where you can create something useful. “Embodied knowing”? Giving it a fancy name doesn’t increase the value of acquired knowledge – only its practical usage in the real world determines its value.
When I was an undergrad in mechanical engineering more than 40 yeas ago, most of my profs had either worked in industry or worked closely with it.
Nowadays, it appears to be the kiss of death to one’s career. For one thing, nobody becomes an engineering professor without a Ph. D. nowadays. Also, one is expected to remain in university all the way through, so anyone working in industry in between time won’t even be considered, unless that person has something extraordinary to offer.
No wonder I can run rings around most professors nowadays.
Here’s what will cheer you up. If you search “Gildersleeve” you’ll get tons of references to Throckmorton Gildersleeve who was a character on radio, early TV and movies.
I knew that name was familiar. And a lot funnier, not just disturbing.
having watched that show that was what popped into my mind when I read the headline.
Its a Sickness right..?? I mean Seriously…Normal thought processes would simply not conjure up such absolute Garbage as what most of these Imbeciles spout.
yea, its a DISEASE…and spreading.
The Planet needs a reset – one that will totally wipe out this SJW – Faux Feminist – Leftist scourge while allowing those that can actually look after themselves to survive. I would heartlily welcome it.
Even logic and reason are now considered by some feminists as instruments of the patriarchy.
I have heard it said:
Those that can, do.
Those who can’t, teach.
And those that can’t teach go back to university, drop out, and get elected Prime Minister of Canada.
Did you mention reset?
Coming to a constituency near you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD-ZQzkj9HY&feature=youtu.be
Uh, no thanks.
That’s what happens when you try to make Teachers out of peach pickers.
Funny to watch what happens to them if power goes out for 3 weeks. Oh they’ll be all over logic and reasoning then!
Nope. Power outages would then be seen as–wait for it!–part of the patriarchy! Feminist power producers would “share” their electricity, you know.
This is what happens when other people have too much of our time and money on their hands.
11 months to go?
mmmmmm . . . . . nah.
this ‘thing’ could fly apart *real soon* like the centrifuges in the belly of the iranian nuke factory:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
otherwise, chalk it up to the 258th pc of evidence of the end times coming at us like
an invisible 200,000,000,000 tonne asteroid.