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Melanie Phillips on 'gibberish studies'

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ErrolTheDragon · 06/04/2021 09:11

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/academics-are-embracing-gibberish-studies-ln679gkc7?shareToken=140202cf8c82ab52e460e2ef88d24182

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littlbrowndog · 06/04/2021 10:51

Am liking gibberish studies 🙌🏽

AffronttoGender · 06/04/2021 10:50

It's corruption and fraud really. These people's jobs depend on selling corrupt ideas that add zero value and is in fact destructive to society.

MaudTheInvincible · 06/04/2021 10:48

Above all, though, it’s intended to obscure the intellectual incapacity of those running the burgeoning university departments of resentment

Ain't that the truth.

Thanks for sharing.

JellySlice · 06/04/2021 10:41

the illocutionary hallucination of the performative as a material event of subjectivity that emerges in a discursive nexus that can be generally named ‘impersonation’

Sounds like Tom Sharpe's Wilt.

AffronttoGender · 06/04/2021 10:40

@ErrolTheDragon How do you do share token links please? I have never managed to work it out....(I'm a Times subscriber).

AffronttoGender · 06/04/2021 10:38

I've always referred to them as Basket Weaving courses.

GNCQ · 06/04/2021 10:32

It makes me quite fearful of all the trash "education" coming out of America.

Thingybob · 06/04/2021 10:28

Quirkyalone? That's another word that describes me.

I'm collecting such a long list of descriptive letters that I must be really, really special.

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 06/04/2021 10:03

Melanie mentions (in the comments) that sex should not be confused with gender and is not on a continuum!!!!

I was momentarily confusing continuum with curriculum.

However, as somebody with friends and family who are in a wide range of relationships for which they use some of the descriptors that she mentioned, I'm grateful for the primer.

Cismyfatarse · 06/04/2021 09:58

I saw this earlier. Brilliant article.

IDontOnlyLikeJazzFunk · 06/04/2021 09:41

Thanks for sharing that article and extremely heartened to see that Melanie mentions (in the comments) that sex should not be confused with gender and is not on a continuum!!!!

Melanie gets it - hooray! She has responded to quite a few comments as well which is nice - I doubt that some of the people that write utter rubbish (like Caroline Nokes) would ever do that.

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