Is it worth it in 2025?
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.
>>24859787Because 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.
>>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.
>>24859790While 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.
>>24859789Selection 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.>>24859790I would hope there's more to it than that.
>>24859797There 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.
>>24859779Beautiful woman. Radiant, even.
>>24859787ive read a couple of books like this and enjoyed them
>>24859805>the vast majority>so you think all of that was niche trivia?Failure of basic reading comprehension.>on texts that were importantShe 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?
>>24859812You 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.
>>24859822>You just think that nearly every PhD is worthless, by your own admission, and nothing should be precluded from study because... everything is triviaAll correct.
>>24859830Then 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...
>>24859831I already fucked her. It was so cruel and degrading that it inspired her to get a PhD in order to transcend this degraded state.
>>24859832It'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.
>>24859790i 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.
>>24859790
>>24859822>You just think that nearly every PhD is worthless, by your own admissionI admitted no such thing. I am explicitly arguing that academic work on trivial themes is not worthless.>I believe in aesthetic and formal quality etcSo do think contemporary fiction should be precluded from study?
>>24859835I don’t get a kick out of derailing threads. I did get a kick out of railing her though.
>>24860000big check, but joking about hag pussy isn't funny
>>24859779Built for BPS (big pseud cock)
>>24859790All woman hating men of /lit/ are cordially invited to step on me
>>24859779She wrote an entire PhD on Imagining the smell
>>24859779Imagine the smell
>>24859787There's multiple layers in this single image. It conveys a lot. It's a powerful image which is why people react strongly to it.
>>24860117Peel of the layers for us, will ya big guy?
>>24859779Can someone explain to me the politics of smell?
>>24860041Sorry
>>24859806imagine the smell
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There's something about discussing the sense of smell that feels like peak degeneracy to me. Figures a woman would be doing it
>>24860266I'm still quirky, pick me!
>>24859789That'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>not even 30>crow's feet of a 40 year oldThe curse of every PhD student
What do women smell like?
>>24859789>Because English Literature >Names oral epic from Ancient GreeceThere's a reason she's now a doctor and you're not.
>>24860279>27
>>24859790I went to college, and was in fact kicked out my contemporary misogyny and MAGA studies program for being too woke.
>>24860314Depends whats her skin color.
>>24860387No, it does not.
>>24859779Does 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?
>>24860228she probably smells like some cheap perfumeWould sleep with probably wouldn't marry unless she was a freak in the sack
>>24860325Because she imagined the smell
>>24859784kek(u sick fuck)
>>24859779it really is just daycare for well off adults kek
>>24859787A 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.
Okay, which one of you guys made this?https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=78698059
>>24859787It's all a psychosexual thing. If she were na uggo, she wouldn't inspire such a seething from your usual philistines
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.
>>24862098>my pieceok maybe I am just retarded
>>24859779idk i dropped out
>>24859779Its 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?
>>24862098Blame Plato. Its his fuckin fault
>>24862100thought you were doing a fungi
>>24861968if you don't have an interest in how moderns wrote about the sense of smell we are not the same.
>>24862098I 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.
>>24862459>school expects me to... learn and retain the material?>AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HELP ME NIGGERMAN I CANT REMEMBER AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>24862380Her 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.
>>24861980Amelia is such a pretty name. Why would she shorten it to Ally? One more thing I can fix about her.
>>24862913Because she's a proud ally of transpeople, duh
>>24859787>i dont understand the ragenigga 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 phdayo 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
>>24859787her "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
