I finished my program but was told my writing was brilliant but disorganized and it was not my advisor’s job to help me organize it properly. I learned, but outside the academy. 30 books, about 190 pieces of short fiction. And publications in major US markets. I am not, however, genteel or Gentile and acceptably bland. I have noticed, however , that pro-Palestinian writing gets to be righteous, lyrical, and hyperbolic. Double standard, much?
Thanks very much for this, Jill. A couple of years ago I submitted a paper to one of the prestigious bible study journals. In it I used quotes from the New Revised Standard Version bible, which is the scholarly standard. Some quotes used the masculine pronoun with referring to God. I was criticized in the peer-review write-up because "using gendered pronouns is not appropriate in academic writing!" The pronouns were in quoted material! I'm not sure there's recovery from that kind of thinking.
LMAO!!!! Here's what I would respond to that: "there's no doubt that if there is a God, He would be a man because no woman would ever fuck up our world to this extent. So I will be sticking to the gender-normative masculine pronouns when referring to Him. Toda raba."
Well said, Jill. I'm fighting a daily battle to stay optimistic- and I generally am- but I suspect academia has passed the point of no return. Entirely too many writers and "researchers" get a participation trophy, and demand one if it's withheld.
The current generation of professors is seeding the belief that bias and sloppy work is acceptable (and poltical; never mind the craziness happening in science journals). Do we think the next generation is suddenly going to set down their phones and AI and demand stricter intellectual integrity?
Hopefully the next generation will take down this system entirely (it's already coming apart at the seams for different reasons), and if it takes their phones and AI to do that, so be it.
They’ve transitioning to using “peer” in the European sense - that is, self-important upperclass twits with an inflated sense of their own importance and an average of 6 separate great-grandparents.
When I moved from actual science (biotech) to pseudoscience (sociology) in my BA degree - a big mistake in retrospect - I was shocked by the regressive nature of Postmodernism. And that was in early 2000's Israel! No methodological rigor; no internal or external validity of anything; "subjectivity" being considered the norm; lots of big words and little actual scientific investigation. 17th century "science", in other words (if a friend's uncle told him he saw a manticore, I can put it in my "zoology" bestiary! yes, many, though not all, 16th-17th century scientific publications I learned about were often like that). If a person deemed "oppressed" by the correct people tells me he saw Bigfoot, I now must believe his "lived experience" without further evidence....
(sociology *can* be a proper science - but not in its current form).
I now worry that this methodological and epistemological regression has infiltrated the real sciences as well.
I can't speak on how it's infiltrated the hard sciences, but I would imagine it's getting there. I'm surprised you had that experience in Israel, though - I always saw it as basically a "woke-free" society...
Oh, local academia is getting "woke" as of late (past two decades or so), as are some areas of high-tech HR practice and local leftist circles in general (though in a minority). Postmodernism rules social sciences and humanities worldwide, including here (I have a BA in Ecology and Sociology and an MA in Geography, both earned in Israel; I had to put up with this stuff for years).
I finished my program but was told my writing was brilliant but disorganized and it was not my advisor’s job to help me organize it properly. I learned, but outside the academy. 30 books, about 190 pieces of short fiction. And publications in major US markets. I am not, however, genteel or Gentile and acceptably bland. I have noticed, however , that pro-Palestinian writing gets to be righteous, lyrical, and hyperbolic. Double standard, much?
Actually, it’s only 100 pieces of short fiction. Hard to type on my phone with only one finger. Bad Boomer! No biscuits!
Thanks very much for this, Jill. A couple of years ago I submitted a paper to one of the prestigious bible study journals. In it I used quotes from the New Revised Standard Version bible, which is the scholarly standard. Some quotes used the masculine pronoun with referring to God. I was criticized in the peer-review write-up because "using gendered pronouns is not appropriate in academic writing!" The pronouns were in quoted material! I'm not sure there's recovery from that kind of thinking.
LMAO!!!! Here's what I would respond to that: "there's no doubt that if there is a God, He would be a man because no woman would ever fuck up our world to this extent. So I will be sticking to the gender-normative masculine pronouns when referring to Him. Toda raba."
Excellent! But I think my moment has passed😀
Well said, Jill. I'm fighting a daily battle to stay optimistic- and I generally am- but I suspect academia has passed the point of no return. Entirely too many writers and "researchers" get a participation trophy, and demand one if it's withheld.
The current generation of professors is seeding the belief that bias and sloppy work is acceptable (and poltical; never mind the craziness happening in science journals). Do we think the next generation is suddenly going to set down their phones and AI and demand stricter intellectual integrity?
Alas, I'm thinking no.
Hopefully the next generation will take down this system entirely (it's already coming apart at the seams for different reasons), and if it takes their phones and AI to do that, so be it.
They’ve transitioning to using “peer” in the European sense - that is, self-important upperclass twits with an inflated sense of their own importance and an average of 6 separate great-grandparents.
When I moved from actual science (biotech) to pseudoscience (sociology) in my BA degree - a big mistake in retrospect - I was shocked by the regressive nature of Postmodernism. And that was in early 2000's Israel! No methodological rigor; no internal or external validity of anything; "subjectivity" being considered the norm; lots of big words and little actual scientific investigation. 17th century "science", in other words (if a friend's uncle told him he saw a manticore, I can put it in my "zoology" bestiary! yes, many, though not all, 16th-17th century scientific publications I learned about were often like that). If a person deemed "oppressed" by the correct people tells me he saw Bigfoot, I now must believe his "lived experience" without further evidence....
(sociology *can* be a proper science - but not in its current form).
I now worry that this methodological and epistemological regression has infiltrated the real sciences as well.
I can't speak on how it's infiltrated the hard sciences, but I would imagine it's getting there. I'm surprised you had that experience in Israel, though - I always saw it as basically a "woke-free" society...
Oh, local academia is getting "woke" as of late (past two decades or so), as are some areas of high-tech HR practice and local leftist circles in general (though in a minority). Postmodernism rules social sciences and humanities worldwide, including here (I have a BA in Ecology and Sociology and an MA in Geography, both earned in Israel; I had to put up with this stuff for years).
Disgraceful.