I think that I might politically identify as a lesbian.
because men are socially conditioned to be terrible, that’s why.
1. Fine Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English Literature and Language
8. Journalism
9. Anthropology and Archeology
11. Music
12. History
13. Political Science and Government
(Ed: Your primary tumblrs majored in two of these and now work in the field of a third.)
“As Determined By Science”
(we’re really obsessed with “usefulness”)
Note that the “useless” subjects are the ones that might be most helpful (or useful?) to marginalized people for examining/understanding/representing/contesting their position in the social structure.
Usefulness is the state. Being/doing uselessness as praxis.
REMEMBER when we were talking about affective registers of capitalism
yeah. this. the injunction to be useful, productive, valuable, tradeable, commodifiable, etc. like, seriously, are we sad about something newsweek said? we gonna let newsweek tell us how to live our lives? tell us we’re useless? newsweek is obviously the state and assigning prescriptive (negative) value to areas of study (when what you’re talking about is employability in an always-already-fucked job market) is just how capitalism wants you to feel.
tl;dr: NEWSWEEK/CAPITAL IS NOT THE DAD OF WHAT I STUDY/HOW I FEEL
Speaking of the always-already fucked job market, a prof in my department was working on this research about how basically low-income students are streamed into degrees that are basically going to ensure they stay low-income/unemployed forever (side note: surprise surprise, I don’t really know why this counts as interesting research these days, but whatever). She had framed it as “the system isn’t working”.
And one dude in the program was like “from the perspective of post-industrial capitalism, the system is working just fine”. Which, so true. The job market/economy under capitalism is always-already fucked for a reason. It’s not just like “oh sorry not enough jobs this year hurr hurr guess you’ve got to do service work without union benefits for a while or unpaid internships or nothing at all while we call you lazy and treat you like shit”. Capitalism needs this labor stratification to function. And if anyone thinks higher education doesn’t play RIGHT INTO THAT, ALL THE TIME, or thinks that higher education is somehow outside of that system, you’re fucking kidding yourself. Same goes for grad school. It was the military-industrial-educational complex for a reason. Funny how that last part gets left out.Point is, rethink affective relationships to work. Rethink labour. Rethink usefulness. Spend time being useless to capital. Spend as much time being useless to capital as possible.
I think I want to make this into a poster to hang above my desk.
1. Fine Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English Literature and Language
8. Journalism
9. Anthropology and Archeology
11. Music
12. History
What this could mean for my Gender/Women’s Studies degree:
- It’s actually relevant
- It’s number 14
- It wasn’t important enough to rank
I’m satisfied with my degree that’s worthless in the eyes of society OH WAIT MOST OTHER THINGS ABOUT ME ARE WORTHLESS IN THE EYES OF SOCIETY LOLOL
TBH though my studies in fine arts helped me think through so many of my own issues. Not like you need a school program to do this, but I had some good professors and peers and probably needed the stringent organization, so I’m trying to not feel too guilty about my debt.
Still a failure to my parents though
:D
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Baby Bear Diagnosed With Social Anxiety
Bear psychologists have diagnosed a local cub with social anxiety disorder after he exhibited extreme shyness around others.
“Sometimes cubbies can be a little awkward around their peers, but most will grow out of it,” says Dr. Jane Camping. ”But a bear with social anxiety may have setbacks — he won’t be able to eat at the cool kids table, or will be too shy to ask a girl to the Spring Fling dance. So it’s good to diagnose that early on.”
I TOO AM A BEAR WITH ANXIETY
:^;
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EVERETT
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Anonymous asked: Why not?
I am assuming that this is in relation to the God question, so I suppose my answer would be that I only believe in science.
