So, I just wondered how many of you regulars are academics

[thanksjaneshusbandatcaresouth]

Just that really!

There is quite a lot of theoretical stuff on the board.

Not an academic but I have postgrad distinctions in two related disciplines that I suppose are pretty relevant to both the pre and post trans feminist discussion, though I never had a strongly feminist focus. Frankly I still find a lot of stuff that is being discussed baffling. I can't work out if the discussion is regressing or progressing! But I think as much as theoretical knowledge can be very helpful at times, it can also be a huge hindrance that makes people cling too firmly to a position and ignore the practical and everyday reality of human experience. I think the trans question - from both sides of the coin - is a good example of this

Nope.

Just lived it.

I'm an academic, have a PhD and am English.

thebewilderness Fri 09-Mar-18 20:19:44
High School drop out. Circa 1962.

and only because there is no [awe] emoji.

I’ve lots to say, but it’s unintelligible. [hero]

how many of you regulars are academics

Nope, not me. Barely string a sentence.

bit identify-ey, this thread

as well as being a zombie

just sayin

Oh 😂😂😂 ffs 🤦‍♀️

Cheers Bernard

British, not an academic

I dont do much work wise

Oh fuck

Hate zombie threads...usually i catch them...doh!

Why oh why don’t mumsnet lock anything over a year old!!! Or 6 months even

Dammit, I thought bewilderness was back!

Anyway, while we’re here... I know ZOMBIE thread

Who’s the biggest brainiac?? I vote

Rufusthebewilderedreindeer because they’re on the thread and they’re smart.

Me ummmmm

Oh now thats good spartacus

girl....oh i wish!

Academic. Got my PhD at University of Glasgow and now teach in Germany (I am using my name so this is easy to find!)

I am new to these boards. I have a doctorate, work for an arts organisation and I am an author. Earn very little and am not very successful. I need to start writing erotica or something more popular than Victorian party politics

not very successful = translation in honest-speak = basically no one, a total failure and a professional disaster.

Yes. I’m a biologist in us

I dropped out of an MA course at Uni Sussex many years ago. I couldn't afford it any more and also had to care for a disabled husband. I never regretted it. I don't have an academic mind and found my own life experience and background far more useful that the study for my profession than the study of English Literature.
I was in my early 60s when I dropped out. I got a job and worked till retirement in 2017.

DarkNoise blimey, you’re way too harsh on yourself!

Anyway, while we’re here... I know ZOMBIE thread

Oooooops!

DarkNoise blimey, you’re way too harsh on yourself!

Agreed! The terms success and failure have to me long ago lost any meaning. It's how you live that counts!

Biologist. Uni prof for more years than I care to admit. Very glad to be out of it. Marketing and moneygrubbing are not compatible with learning or understanding.

Marketing and moneygrubbing are not compatible with learning or understanding.

Yup. Tuition fees and the student as customer culture that followed has broken academia.

BSc STEM, lab tech in RG uni.

I am back. This is my secret identity that I identify with on MN. I was not banned and so after working on my submissiveness for a few months I though I would come back to see if Feminism and misogyny are still considered by MN to be the two sides of the debate.

Only on weekends though.

Oooh hello creepster. welcome back! Are you who I think you are?!