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Anonymous No.24859779 [Report] >>24859806 >>24860048 >>24860054 >>24860080 >>24860124 >>24860261 >>24860296 >>24860453 >>24861627 >>24862140 >>24862142 >>24866950 >>24867192 >>24867765
PhD in Literature
Is it worth it in 2025?
Anonymous No.24859784 [Report] >>24860951
imagine her being beaten and raped by five algerians
Anonymous No.24859787 [Report] >>24859789 >>24859790 >>24859810 >>24860117 >>24861968 >>24862006 >>24863195 >>24863248 >>24866116 >>24867350
I don't understand the rage that this image causes. 95% of PhDs are on trivia like this, and it's not as if it's a topic completely devoid of interest.
Anonymous No.24859789 [Report] >>24859797 >>24860296 >>24860325
>>24859787
Because English literature as a discipline used to be about something important like critiquing Homer's Odyssey to find the meaning of communication, or understanding topoi in relation to linguistics.
Anonymous No.24859790 [Report] >>24859795 >>24859797 >>24859841 >>24859890 >>24860051 >>24860343 >>24867052 >>24867350
>>24859787
/lit/ is full of woman hating men who never went to college and are easily baited by their own ignorance. Really it’s their suppressed libido that’s making them rage.
Anonymous No.24859795 [Report] >>24864818 >>24867229
>>24859790
While that may be correct, I literally studied with women like the OP in a PhD on Ezra Pound. I was screamed out of the department for being vaguely didactic or right-wing, even though I took the stance of cultural criticism from Marxists like Raymond Williams.
Anonymous No.24859797 [Report] >>24859805
>>24859789
Selection bias. The fact that you can only remember significant academic work does not change the fact that the vast majority of academic work hasn't always been niche trivia.
>>24859790
I would hope there's more to it than that.
Anonymous No.24859805 [Report] >>24859812
>>24859797
There have been countless PhDs in literature since the late 19th century, when it became more widespread in American universities. So you think all of that was niche trivia? At least most of it was on texts that were important rather than broad studies on a vague topic like Ally Louks' PhD thesis, which barely even had one central text to it.
Anonymous No.24859806 [Report] >>24860228
>>24859779 (OP)
Beautiful woman. Radiant, even.
Anonymous No.24859810 [Report]
>>24859787
ive read a couple of books like this and enjoyed them
Anonymous No.24859812 [Report] >>24859822
>>24859805
>the vast majority
>so you think all of that was niche trivia?
Failure of basic reading comprehension.
>on texts that were important
She specifically singles out contemporary and modern fiction in her title. Do you think contemporary fiction should be precluded from study? Does academic writing require tokenistic name-dropping of classics to be legitimate?
Anonymous No.24859822 [Report] >>24859830 >>24859994
>>24859812
You just think that nearly every PhD is worthless, by your own admission, and nothing should be precluded from study because... everything is trivia. Because nothing is precluded from study, it is inherently meaningless. Your argument is self-defeating.
>Do you think contemporary fiction should be precluded from study?
I believe in aesthetic and formal quality, and I believe there should be a Western canon that people should study and respond to, rather than blindly following whatever trend is in, or seen as noveau, at the time.
Anonymous No.24859830 [Report] >>24859831
>>24859822
>You just think that nearly every PhD is worthless, by your own admission, and nothing should be precluded from study because... everything is trivia
All correct.
Anonymous No.24859831 [Report] >>24859832
>>24859830
Then why are you arguing with me just because I think Ally Louks' PhD is drivel? You're like an undergraduate who thinks "it's supposed to be shit, bro!" I really don't see what you get out of it... Unless you want to fuck her...
Anonymous No.24859832 [Report] >>24859835
>>24859831
I already fucked her. It was so cruel and degrading that it inspired her to get a PhD in order to transcend this degraded state.
Anonymous No.24859835 [Report] >>24860000
>>24859832
It's obvious you weren't the same guy. I think you're probably underage and get a kick out of derailing threads. I used to do it all the time.
Anonymous No.24859841 [Report]
>>24859790
i hate women because i went to college. The TAs did half their coursework for them and then I got turned down for an internship over a female classmate because the professor said she needed it, and was surprised I couldn't find another one anywhere else.
I ignore women No.24859890 [Report]
>>24859790
Anonymous No.24859994 [Report]
>>24859822
>You just think that nearly every PhD is worthless, by your own admission
I admitted no such thing. I am explicitly arguing that academic work on trivial themes is not worthless.
>I believe in aesthetic and formal quality etc
So do think contemporary fiction should be precluded from study?
Anonymous No.24860000 [Report] >>24860041
>>24859835
I don’t get a kick out of derailing threads. I did get a kick out of railing her though.
Anonymous No.24860041 [Report] >>24860129
>>24860000
big check, but joking about hag pussy isn't funny
Anonymous No.24860048 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
Built for BPS (big pseud cock)
Anonymous No.24860051 [Report]
>>24859790
All woman hating men of /lit/ are cordially invited to step on me
Anonymous No.24860054 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
She wrote an entire PhD on Imagining the smell
Anonymous No.24860080 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
Imagine the smell
Anonymous No.24860117 [Report] >>24860119 >>24867196
>>24859787
There's multiple layers in this single image. It conveys a lot. It's a powerful image which is why people react strongly to it.
Anonymous No.24860119 [Report]
>>24860117
Peel of the layers for us, will ya big guy?
Anonymous No.24860124 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
Can someone explain to me the politics of smell?
Anonymous No.24860129 [Report]
>>24860041
Sorry
Anonymous No.24860228 [Report] >>24860474
>>24859806
imagine the smell
Anonymous No.24860261 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
Anonymous No.24860266 [Report] >>24860279
There's something about discussing the sense of smell that feels like peak degeneracy to me. Figures a woman would be doing it
Anonymous No.24860279 [Report] >>24860326
>>24860266
I'm still quirky, pick me!
Anonymous No.24860296 [Report]
>>24859789
That's been done to hell and back. One of the key factors in deciding your PhD thesis is originality. Consequently, you need to come up with ever more obscure ideas. Besides, if ypur topic is so obscure there's hardly any expert on it, you're more likely to pass.

>>24859779 (OP)
>not even 30
>crow's feet of a 40 year old
The curse of every PhD student
Anonymous No.24860314 [Report] >>24860387
What do women smell like?
Anonymous No.24860325 [Report] >>24860483 >>24866097
>>24859789
>Because English Literature
>Names oral epic from Ancient Greece
There's a reason she's now a doctor and you're not.
Anonymous No.24860326 [Report]
>>24860279
>27
Anonymous No.24860343 [Report]
>>24859790
I went to college, and was in fact kicked out my contemporary misogyny and MAGA studies program for being too woke.
Anonymous No.24860387 [Report] >>24860424
>>24860314
Depends whats her skin color.
Anonymous No.24860424 [Report] >>24867049
>>24860387
No, it does not.
Anonymous No.24860453 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
Does she expect to support herself with a piece of paper that says she spent years reading books and writing "papers" on subjects no one cares about?
Anonymous No.24860474 [Report]
>>24860228
she probably smells like some cheap perfume
Would sleep with probably wouldn't marry unless she was a freak in the sack
Anonymous No.24860483 [Report]
>>24860325
Because she imagined the smell
Anonymous No.24860951 [Report]
>>24859784
kek
(u sick fuck)
Anonymous No.24861627 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
it really is just daycare for well off adults kek
Anonymous No.24861968 [Report] >>24862380 >>24866027
>>24859787
A PhD is not supposed to be about random trash trivia. But letting every retard do a phd (women especially) made it the norm so now retards like (You) defend schlock.
Anonymous No.24861980 [Report] >>24862913 >>24865763 >>24865777
Okay, which one of you guys made this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=78698059
Anonymous No.24862006 [Report]
>>24859787
It's all a psychosexual thing. If she were na uggo, she wouldn't inspire such a seething from your usual philistines
Anonymous No.24862098 [Report] >>24862100 >>24862144 >>24862459
I am incapable of studying at university. I've tried like ten times at this point but I always fluke out. It's not the material itself, it's the pressure to perform and I can't stick with anything. I'm making my piece with it. I will just do my best to spread anti-academic sentiment online and IRL to cope.
Anonymous No.24862100 [Report] >>24862152
>>24862098
>my piece
ok maybe I am just retarded
Anonymous No.24862140 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
idk i dropped out
Anonymous No.24862142 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
Its never been worth it. Oh wow i....read a bunch of books. Cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell you all about it and get this piece of paper proving I read all these books. What the fuck?
Anonymous No.24862144 [Report]
>>24862098
Blame Plato. Its his fuckin fault
Anonymous No.24862152 [Report]
>>24862100
thought you were doing a fungi
Anonymous No.24862380 [Report] >>24862889
>>24861968
if you don't have an interest in how moderns wrote about the sense of smell we are not the same.
Anonymous No.24862459 [Report] >>24862818
>>24862098
I tried once I had to stop because of taxes and I'm perfecly fine with it because having to learn facts by memory for the oral exam is excruciating.
Anonymous No.24862818 [Report]
>>24862459
>school expects me to... learn and retain the material?
>AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HELP ME NIGGERMAN I CANT REMEMBER AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Anonymous No.24862889 [Report]
>>24862380
Her thesis is accessible online. Go ahead and tell me it actually says anything of substance instead of regurgitating leftoid points for 6 gazillionth time using academia's version of corpospeak.

The real blackpill is reading papers from the 70s. The decline is in quality is massive.
Anonymous No.24862913 [Report] >>24863181
>>24861980
Amelia is such a pretty name. Why would she shorten it to Ally? One more thing I can fix about her.
Anonymous No.24863181 [Report]
>>24862913
Because she's a proud ally of transpeople, duh
Anonymous No.24863195 [Report]
>>24859787
>i dont understand the rage
nigga try to explain. Just type out your feelings as they happen using words that describe them as close to what and how you feel them, basicly be honest with yourself first me second and just type whatever shit comes to mind cuz. Shiiieeeeiiiit you have no idea how much bs that drops off your shoulders being non censoring and staring reality straight in its bitch ass face and still doing you

>chick with a phd
ayo ima keep it a buck, the only thing i see here is a bitch thats old now and basicly useless. Everything ahe did was based on the absence of strength and not in the pursuit of acquiring it. Bitch is basicly not righteous about her shit so yeah, idc about no funky old hoe
Anonymous No.24863248 [Report]
>>24859787
her "phd" is about how if you notice nonwhites smell bad it's because you're racist, i'm not overly familiar with academia but surely that's 99.9 percentile niche and libtarded
Anonymous No.24864818 [Report] >>24867238
>>24859795

Are you the anon that's posted in a few threads about getting kicked out of a PhD for being right wing? What did you do afterwords?
Anonymous No.24865763 [Report] >>24866878
>>24861980
Be honest /lit/, would you address yourself as doctor if you obtained a PhD in literature?
Anonymous No.24865777 [Report]
>>24861980
How the fuck does this survive notability purging?
Anonymous No.24866027 [Report]
>>24861968
>A PhD is not supposed to be about random trash trivia.
lmao way to out yourself as someone who's never set foot in a university before
Anonymous No.24866097 [Report] >>24866100
>>24860325
>different translations don't have varying levels of literary merit
thanks for that dr tard
Anonymous No.24866100 [Report]
>>24866097
dont argue with coombraind simps. waste of time.
Anonymous No.24866116 [Report]
>>24859787
It shouldn't be rage inducing, but it does highlight why the humanities just aren't really taken seriously anymore.
Anonymous No.24866878 [Report] >>24866937
>>24865763
Yes. I really wish I finished university, my life is such shit now.
Anonymous No.24866937 [Report] >>24867009
>>24866878
Retard
Anonymous No.24866950 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
hey no corrections is pretty incredible. Credit where its due!
Anonymous No.24867009 [Report]
>>24866937
I really am. :(
Anonymous No.24867049 [Report]
>>24860424
Yes it does. Asians don't smell. Niggers smell like coconut oil. Whites smell like cheese.
Anonymous No.24867052 [Report]
>>24859790
Kill yourself tranny faggot
Anonymous No.24867192 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
>modern degree outside of STEM
Waste of money to get to the master level. Waste of time to get done with your first class. Waste of manhours even for the dumb intern who had to write the course descriptions, degree descriptions, and ads.
Anonymous No.24867196 [Report]
>>24860117
The creator of the image should have a PhD in the art of pain.
Anonymous No.24867229 [Report] >>24867247
>>24859795
Women hate marxism. I don't know why so many retards think women are these crypto-marxists when I always see them shy away from those kinds of criticisms whenever they can because they tend to be establishment-aligned cowards. The only kind of retard who thinks women trend towards marxism more than men are the types who think 'marxism' is when you present an oppressor-oppressed dynamic.
Anonymous No.24867238 [Report] >>24867250
>>24864818
I'm doing photography now. It's way better and less politicised.
Anonymous No.24867247 [Report] >>24867298
>>24867229
I hear you about all those points but the women there pretended to be for open debate and free inquiry, at least in name. But as soon as you do something that challenges the establishment, they pull the rug from beneath you.
Anonymous No.24867250 [Report]
>>24867238

If /p/ is any indication of how photography is, I agree. Dealing with the odd faggot telling you off for taking a homeless person's photo is an improvement. Enjoy.
Anonymous No.24867298 [Report] >>24867771
>>24867247
That's true. Women are generally more oriented towards social harmony, which might not really gel well with the sort of academic environments that are more oriented towards disagreement and real-world ethical concerns. It's kind of a shame since they do seem to actually perform well, often better than men, in other elements of the academy and schooling.
Anonymous No.24867350 [Report] >>24867742 >>24867837
>>24859787
It's the smug attitude.
She could have posed with a PhD proving successful data transmission between quantum systems between personal computers or a PhD proving that some pharmaceutical has shown 90% efficacy in curing cancer of all types in stage 3 clinical trials, and people would have still teared her down due to the overwhelming smugness of the image.
The fact she's so smug about the political implications of smell in 20th century literature increases the likelihood of being attacked. You don't need to be go through all the rungs of the academic institution to understand her thesis is bogus and utterly irrelevant for the 99,999999% of the living population the world over. It's just another proof that humanities are pozzed and retarded and can't bring anything new to the table outside feminist and racial criticism of inconsequential details and are trapped within their insulated island of uroboric mental masturbation.
>>24859790
Humanity colleges are a scam and will make you want to kill yourself once you understand their stupid linguistic academic games and kindergarten politics behind the scenes. For supposedly smart people, humanities workers are blind to their own racial and nationalist and sexist biases and childish emotional reactions. I'd rather have a STEM maladjusted autist who goons to pokemon porn or MLP rather than deal with a humanity normie. They, at least, have unique and interesting perspective on things. And about 20 to 30 IQ points smarter than a humanity student.
>t. someone who went to a humanities college
Anonymous No.24867742 [Report]
>>24867350
Humanities might have been cool back in like the 1940s where someone could call you a faggot or a communist and you could have a fistfight on the quad without getting expelled.
Anonymous No.24867765 [Report]
>>24859779 (OP)
Hmm what is she built for? surely she's built for something...
Anonymous No.24867771 [Report]
>>24867298
>Women are generally more oriented towards social harmony
Women gossip and fight for fun, its men who are browbeaten and agreeable
Anonymous No.24867791 [Report]
> In February 2025, Louks came out as bisexual on Twitter.[25]
So while you faggots were harassing and bullying her online, she was dealing with her sexuality which she had to hide because of the ridicule and ostracism she would have faced.
Good job, edgelords.
Anonymous No.24867837 [Report]
>>24867350
>autists who goon to MLP have unique and interesting perspectives on things
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