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Found the academic! Your post comes off as highly judgmental, right from the start. Her lack of experience does not mean she cannot have an opinion, and cannot
by insuffi 13y ago
Found the academic! Your post comes off as highly judgmental, right from the start.
Her lack of experience does not mean she cannot have an opinion, and cannot point out that she's being abused.
If such a line of reasoning is common place in academia, then I'm extremely happy I didn't pursue further study.
- Malarkey73 13y agoWell I think your reply comes off as highly judgmental :P but hey its the internet. I actually think her general points about the problems in academia are correct but her particular story just smelt wrong. The common place academic line of reasoning is hopefully to check the facts behind claims.
- HillRat 13y agoParenthetically, but recently it seems that academics have formed some kind of collective Stockholm Syndrome regarding their careers, where a tenure-seeking goonswarm piles on anyone who points out how toxic academia has become. Not that the academy ever needed an excuse for its viciousness(to paraphrase Sayre's law, the politics are so ugly because the stakes are so small), but these days it seems like many academics compete to prove that they deserve abuse. Philosophy professor? You deserve nothing more than to eat dogfood in an unheated flat! Grad student? Be grateful for the chance to be sexually harassed and/or emotionally abused by a credit-grabbing tenured sadist! PhD candidate? You're a worthless drain on productive society, just like the rest of us! How dare you try to negotiate a job offer! How dare you point out that grad programs are human-destroying slaughterhouses of hope! I've never felt better about my decision not to go back to grad studies. And I've never felt worse about never feeling better.