The Patriarchy Sits On Her Chest
I’ve been in and out of higher education for over seven years now.
Well, there’s your problem.
I feel more comfortable there than I do in the workforce,
And there it is again.
but there are still many issues with academia that make me uncomfortable.
But of course. The author of this piece, Everyday Feminism’s Celia Edell, a “feminist philosopher interested in social justice,” wants to reveal to us the pressures of unrelenting sexism in higher education:
I know I’m making my way into a field that is, as a whole, less than welcoming to gender minorities like women.
Women are apparently a gender minority. I’ll give you a second to chew on that one. We’ll just skip over the preferential hiring of women across much of academia, including in departments of philosophy, and the fact that women earn a majority of both Bachelors and Masters degrees.
My experience with sexism in academia has been that I am more often questioned about my knowledge and ability by male peers and, now that I am TAing [i.e., a teaching assistant], by my male students too.
If true, this may not be entirely unrelated to the fact that Ms Edell’s article contains so many statements of the bizarre – such as women constituting a “gender minority” in an environment where female students typically outnumber male students by quite some margin – along with numerous falsehoods, including the assertion that women “make 78 cents for every dollar a man makes.” A claim that has been debunked repeatedly and at length.
I still feel silenced in a class of men. I feel like the boys I teach don’t take me as seriously as they would a male TA.
As ladies on the right report such difficulties much less often, perhaps the issue is not that Ms Edell is a woman being assailed by The Patriarchy and its all-pervasive sexism, even in one of the most scrupulously PC environments on Earth. Maybe it’s just the kind of woman she is. One who, in the very same article, tells us that she suffers from “imposter syndrome” and struggles to sound confident and knowledgeable when voicing her thoughts in public. And at risk of sounding shallow, I doubt that her retro-ironic Far Side glasses and randomly changing hair colour convey much in the way of gravitas. And referring to “white men” as inherently privileged or in some way problematic – no fewer than three times – probably isn’t helping on that front either.
Ms Edell’s ruminations have entertained us before.
Ms Edell’s alleged personal experience of sexism is oddly vague and subjective, and never actually specified.
Of course. We live in an age where one’s personal narrative and experience is the supreme authority. No one is allowed to question bold assertions of oppression and identity because the worst thing in the world is “invalidating” any individual’s insular reality.
heavily biased towards Angry Studies™ rather than rooted in rigorous philosophical analysis,
Hard to say. But the feigned victimhood and identitarian posturing don’t seem to impede career progress among such people, even when they entail regurgitating obvious falsehoods. I was reminded of Nina Power, a senior lecturer in philosophy, who describes student riots and opportunist vandalism as “uplifting” and grumbles about “white males discussing formal logic,” and then repeatedly makes pronouncements with no basis in fact or any discernible kind of reasoning. Having read her essays and Guardian articles, where so much is asserted and nothing is established, I’m inclined to wonder what her classes must be like.
Sorry, Daniel, I can never think of another way to describe the game for those completely unfamiliar with it. 🙂
Celia Edell is a Contributing Vlogger for Everyday Feminism, a freelance writer, and feminist philosopher. She holds a Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield in England and is currently doing her PhD in Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal. Her interests include critical race theory, mental health awareness, and bad made-for-TV movies.
Could be more succinct, e.g.
Celia Edell has wasted her life and will shortly own many cats
What effect does an American University ‘Grievance Studies’ course have on young women?
Via Chateau Heartiste (not for the fainthearted)
repeatedly makes pronouncements with no basis in fact or any discernible kind of reasoning.
I think you could follow a line from Marx via Freud and the Frankfurt School up to the Sixties ‘Counter Culture’ nonsense right to 21st Century
Schizoid ManFeminism.Dr Power is a fairly good example of how egalitarian dogma is intellectually corrosive. Apparently, the notion that “everyone is equally intelligent” is something to be “presupposed,” by which she means – and contrary to a century of IQ testing and the everyday experience of pretty much everyone – assumed as fact. Rather than rethink her assumptions on this matter, reality must be denied, regardless of the rhetorical contortion that involves. She also rails against any cuts in public funding of the humanities, while telling us that she and her peers no longer need to be knowledgeable or competent in any conventional sense. Which isn’t perhaps the best incentive to publicly fund more leftwing philosophers.
And this, remember, is a professional educator.
Of interest to all but a surprise to no one: Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists
Of interest to all but a surprise to no one: Moral Outrage Is Self-Serving, Say Psychologists.
[ Faints with indignation. On account of unassailable personal virtue. ]
Indeed, such breathtaking, tragicomic delusion almost makes the flat earth’ers of antiquity look mildly rational by comparison.
Why antiquity?
The Patriarchy Sits On Her Chest
Did I get it right?
Did I get it right?
[ Rummages under bar, unveils deluxe blackcurrant cheesecake. ]
Nom nom nom.
Well done Jacob.
” social justice” in this day and age means social IN-justice for white males.
Those “social justice warriors” only care to make things better for women, gays, immigrants/refugees/illegals and colored people.
Their heavily brainwashed minds can not conceive that many white men also suffer ( especially those who have been financially raped in divorce court…and even more those who’s ex wife lied about domestic violence to punish even more the ex husband and keep him from seeing his own children), social justice warriors can not see that not all white men are billionaires and ultra privileged.
Injustices against white males are seen as social justice victories in the eyes of those seriously brainwashed dysfunctional dangerous leftoids.
David,
Are you looking forward to reading Nkechi Amare Diallo’s “In Full Color: Finding My Place In A Black And White World”
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/rachel-dolezal-white-professor-who-posed-as-black-gets-new-nigerian-name-a3479741.html
I’m almost certain I’m washing my hair that night.
Sorry, Daniel
I kid, I kid. I’m quite familiar the game’s history and the interesting legal issues surrounding it.
I simply find it ironic that despite their best efforts, the internecine squabbling of the identitarian left still has not reached the levels of vitriol and irrelevance displayed by people who prefer different versions of D&D.
While she obviously chose her new Nigerian name with great care to it’s meaning I think she forgot that we all know that Nkechi Amare Diallo is an obvious anagram of Heck Milo I dare anal
I posted this on another site recently in relation to a member of the Sisters of Intolerance [Australian chapter]:
“Some years ago when I was working in the Victorian Public Service [Disability Welfare Section] as a behavioural specialist some woman, presumably one of the Sisters, posted a notice in the office: “Womanhood’s 10 Rules for [managing] Men”. The last rule read: “If any man learns any of the above 9 rules all rules are null and void and the rules will be changed.” That Feminists are confused is a given. They behave much like petulant toddlers, who, given what they want, then tantrum because they wanted to obtain it all themselves just to prove they could.”
*Sporkatus* I had several women in my Engineering class and every one of them, including the ditzy redhed, was brilliant, a few of them legitimately so. Sorry your experience was different.I wish that I could say that their presence mfdeme a bettr studdent but quite simply they swamped me at the academics, and at least two of ’em could’ve made a ‘women” of Engineering section in Maxim…:)
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Dave Barry, is that you?
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Careful. We don’t want the host closing down the bar.
I had several women in my Engineering class and every one of them, including the ditzy redhed, was brilliant
The trouble was, she wasn’t stupid in any meaningful way. Academically, sharper than me, and an eager learner. BUT, she was somehow in a mechanical engineering program with no real familiarity or facility with machines, and seemingly little interest in obtaining them. I remain baffled how or why she was in the program and not another in which she might have had interest, other than having the suspicion she was recruited to it.
Of course, there were two other ladies in the program I didn’t get to know as well, both quite sharp in it – one with a bit of an Aspergers stereotype social set and the other quite charming, both perfectly competent. But – confirmation bias is a far easier thing to set than to remove, and a system which sets out to create cautionary tales like that has many issues.
the levels of vitriol and irrelevance displayed by people who prefer different versions of D&D.
Some of which people end up preferring a given version so strongly despite its faults that they set out to houserule the faults away and end up somewhere else entirely. Pathfinder for the mild case, Palladium games for the mad case.
I dare anal
Band name.
Nkechi Amare Diallo is an obvious anagram of…
You just won the Internet. Collect your winnings as you exit.
Nkechi Amare Diallo is an obvious anagram of Heck Milo I dare anal
Oh, my…
C’mon, Ms. Edell is just running up the score.
She knows her career path in academia is completely assured. She’s playing the victim card for the fun of it now. It’s like a victory lap.