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Sally Hines book gets trashed in THE

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Pota2 · 01/07/2019 18:49

www.timeshighereducation.com/books/gender-fluid-primer-21st-century-sally-hines-Thames-and-Hudson

Apologies for those who don’t have access to the times higher ed supplement but a book called ‘is gender fluid?’ by Sally Hines has been reviewed by another academic. She basically says it’s a load of rubbish. Predictably, the woke squad is now urging everyone to buy the ‘fantastic’ and ‘groundbreaking’ book. I am glad that someone has the guts to stand up to her- she has done so much to totally undo the good work that feminists have done to try to help women and girls.

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KatvonHostileExtremist · 02/07/2019 10:28

Smirk

Sally is the gift that keeps giving.

GrapefruitIsGross · 02/07/2019 09:37

My favourite part of the online review is how they’ve linked to HBE’s work slap bang in the middle of the article GrinGrinGrin

Sally Hines book gets trashed in THE
KatvonHostileExtremist · 02/07/2019 09:33

Diary of a Professor of Bantz and Feels, aged 57 3/4

Dear dairy [sic]

Hic
Sniff

They HATE my book. My big wordy book. With lots of big words I understand. Loser haters. I'm a PROFESSOR. Okay. I'm special, right and a PROFESSOR. So if I say feelings are what matters THEN THAT'S WHAT MATTERS. All the small gamate, large gamate, biological sex, blah blah, hic, bullshit haters can get to fuck. You need to CHECK YOUR CIS-HET PRIVILEGE, when YOUR [sic] a Prof THEN you can comment. Ha.

SEX IS A STATE OF MIND, I'm right, your wrong and if you argue I'll brand you hateful and transphobic 💄👠👄💖 You'll be asking for evidence next. NAZIS.

Hey, loser haters, don't forget I'm also all about the BANTZ..... here's a funny moving image thing (popular with the young cool types) to show you I LITERALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK. LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LOSERS

*sniff
*dabs eyes
*hic
*sniff

KatvonHostileExtremist · 02/07/2019 09:09

Oh that's brilliant Grin

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 02/07/2019 07:51

😆 (only because she is a meanie)

nettie434 · 02/07/2019 07:33

I do miss the ‘have you been drinking?’ replies

Here we are LordProf. Especially for you via Dr Louise Moody' a very clever take:

twitter.com/drlouisejmoody/status/1145088765880360965?s=09

EverardDigby · 02/07/2019 07:21

Do Leeds University not care? It's certainly put DD and me off when we start our visits next year, as she's likely to do a degree in sociology or a similar field, and wants to go to a northern university.

BitOfFun · 02/07/2019 00:04

ChattyLion, how embarrassing!

hipsterfun · 02/07/2019 00:02

Sally Hines herself is tweeting gifs of a woman high-fiving herself and ’when all the right people hate your book’

I’m embarrassed for her Blush

ChattyLion · 01/07/2019 23:36

Grin The ‘scripture’ bit of the review is GOLD

Must be nice for Professor Hines though that the usual suspects are now rallying round tweeting each other to to buy her book, calling the TES review a ‘hit piece’ and sending love heart emojis to her.

Sally Hines herself is tweeting gifs of a woman high-fiving herself and ’when all the right people hate your book’

mobile.twitter.com/sally_hines/status/1145779566125965312

Confused Yup totally this is a normal academic response when someone disagrees with your ideas.
Leeds University must be so proud..

AnotherLass · 01/07/2019 22:38

I think I'm in love with Susan

nonsenceagain · 01/07/2019 22:24

Thank you Susan. Brilliant.

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Pota2 · 01/07/2019 22:20

Definitely will be some sort of letter. Have already seen it described as a ‘hit piece’. It’s amazing that in academia of all professions, some research is now impossible of even being scrutinised or critiqued and must uniformly be accepted as great.

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SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 01/07/2019 22:18

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GCAcademic · 01/07/2019 22:14

I guarantee a letter is being written to the THES as we speak, in which Susan will be accused of being “anti-trans”.

Singasonga · 01/07/2019 22:07

Not to worry, she'll just block and stay safe.

Prawnofthepatriarchy · 01/07/2019 21:36

"Postmodern dogma served up as scripture". What a blissful quote! Wouldn't want to be one of Sally Hines' inner circle after she became aware of this review. Grin

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Pota2 · 01/07/2019 20:49

I hope she was drunk when writing the book and her tweets. At least that offers some sort of explanation.

I use the same mantra for myself. If I feel imposter syndrome creeping up, I remind myself that Sally Hines holds the highest academic rank possible.

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GCAcademic · 01/07/2019 20:35

I reassure some students who are nervous about exams or thesis - 'Sally Hines is a professor, so you definitely have got this'.

There's a TRA in my field who is equally thick. Whenever I have imposter syndrome, I think of that wokebearded wanker and it instantly goes away.

I had some amazing, fearsomely intelligent feminist lecturers when I was an undergraduate. How far we have fallen . . .

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 01/07/2019 20:23

And the best feminist lecturer I ever had was my old history lecturer. She rocked.

LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD · 01/07/2019 20:23

Can’t say I’m surprised. I’ve seen her tweets. I do miss the ‘have you been drinking?’ replies - haven’t seen one in a while.

ThatDoctorEM · 01/07/2019 20:21

I'm unsure too. I think part of gender studies, in contrast to women's studies, and this whole malarky has been to delegitimise academia. It is a deliberate attempt to silence academics by making us all farcical, it brings all academic qualifications into disrepute. I reassure some students who are nervous about exams or thesis - 'Sally Hines is a professor, so you definitely have got this'.

GrumpyCatLives · 01/07/2019 20:19

Sally got where she is through nepotism, unsurprisingly.

AlwaysTawnyOwl · 01/07/2019 20:14

Heard Sally Hines on Woman’s Hour. Comes across as so dense couldn’t believe she was an academic frankly.

HandsOffMyRights · 01/07/2019 20:14

Laura McInerney, former editor of Schools Week and a former teacher, tweeted this last year. It remains a pertinent point (even though Schools Week rubbishes TransgenderTrend and bows down to Stonewall):

Sally Hines book gets trashed in THE