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> "most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD
by dreamfactory2 13y ago
> "most physicists could, if necessary, make it through a PhD program in French literature, but few professors of French literature could make it through a PhD program in physics"
This is simply an embarrassingly stupid and ignorant comment.
The rest of it is fine if stating the obvious/sophomoric. I'd have like to have seen him take the interesting nuggets on fashion being political in nature and run with it (already well understood by fashion students but might deserve wider exposure).
- waterlesscloud 13y agoI'd be surprised if PhDs in either of those fields genuinely disagreed with that.
- slvv 13y agoWell, I don't quite qualify - I have a BA in French and I'm working on a PhD in another humanities discipline - but I disagree pretty strongly with the idea that a physicist could do what a French literature specialist does but not vice versa.