Are academia threads allowed?
>Attend recent conference
>Professor shares that more than 25% of PhD applications to our department are gender studies projects
>This is just at our uni, but consistent across the country (I'm in a Scandinavian country)
>Just boring political close readings and predictable analysis
Look, I'm not going to claim that my own PhD changed the world, but at least I didn't write a dissertation just to complain. It's insane to me that more than 25% of applicants want to write about gender. It's doubly insane that I am surrounded by hyper-privileged white women who somehow have taken it upon themselves to defend black people/Asians/other groups. I often wonder whether academics in Japan or Mongolia or Mexico or Zambia complain that there isn't enough white people literature, just like we apparently complain that literature written by people from our country is widely read by people in our country.
Our degree programme is also overwhelmingly dominated by women (around 95% of the students are girls). I know the situation is different in STEM, but fucking hell.
If you work at a university, or even if you're a student: do you see that gender studies continues to dominate? Do you find their arguments compelling?
And just in case people think I am some incel: I've written peer-reviewed articles about books written by Asians and women, so I am not blindly hating, I just wonder whether we really need so many damn gender studies PhD projects. Ironically there's relatively little diversity in the research in my department.
It's a comfy job, but universities are also weird places to work. I had to give up reading dark academia novels because the fiction is never even close to as fucking strange or ridiculous as real life.
University /lit/ thread
