Posted on 11/28/2022 9:31:14 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Babylon Bee is far and away the leading source of conservative satirical content on the internet. Its writers brilliantly skewer the entire spectrum of woke and PC nonsense on a daily basis. Its pieces are shared widely in social media by clear thinkers seeking comedic relief in the face of the avalanche of increasingly crazy and dangerous ideas, positions, and rhetoric emanating by the American left.
If the Babylon Bee’s most creative satirists conjured up a parody of a woke college course description, it would probably read something like this:
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Reading and Writing Gender and Sexuality
ENGL 214
CREDITS: 0.5
How do you read gender? How do you read sexuality? How and in what ways have gender and sexuality been written and rewritten? This course serves as an introduction to queer and transfeminist theories and practices in gender and sexuality studies. Conceptualized through its intersections with race, ethnicity, coloniality, class, and ability, the sex/gender system of oppression has long served as a taxonomizing apparatus. And yet, the literary, in league with anticolonial, civil rights, and LGBTQ social movements, not only sheds sharp light on how gender and sexuality are regulated and troubled, but also animates the liberatory potential of imagining embodied relations otherwise. At once world-building and world-shattering, representations of gender and sexuality can leverage critiques against normativity in the same gesture as they bow to reproducing it. Taking our transnational cue from subjugated knowledges and intersectional epistemologies, we’ll constellate the diverging genealogies and methodologies that have shaped the politics and aesthetics as well as the ethics and affects of gender and sexuality. Against the traffic of binary opposition, we’ll index the possibilities of intimacy and performativity that determine desiring subjects and their objects. As a class collective, our aim will be to read and reread as well as write and rewrite texts that interrogate and complicate how gender and sexuality, as contested sites of pleasure and pain, are embodied and experienced. The geographic and generic focus of this course may vary; for more information, students should contact the instructor. This counts toward the methods requirement for the major and an elective for the women’s and gender studies major. Open only to first-year and sophomore students.
Prerequisite: ENGL 103 or 104.
Sadly, this nonsensical, unintelligible gibberish was copied, word-for-word, from an actual English course description currently appearing on the website of Kenyon College, one of the nation’s preeminent liberal arts colleges. That Kenyon approved a course description (and course) so replete with esoteric academic jargon and hackneyed, woke buzzwords reveals the intellectual vacuousness that currently permeates the college.
The first thing that popped into my head after all that was “Well, is the teacher hot?”
I don’t even think like that normally, but a primal reaction is reflexive after reading such bilge.
“Note that this is a statement of fact, “
Are you saying you actually “understood” that pile of dung?
Could you translate it into English?
I majored in English.
In short, critical race theory with a dollop of transgenderism on top; a hard pass for anyone who wants to learn anything of substance.
Good grief. Glad my edumacation is over. ___ that.
Well, if I were single, and was buying a pizza to share, and she started talking like that, I think my first response would be “Such an inconsequential matter to worry your pretty little head over.”
If that's her in the photo, I'd say, no not particularly "hot", though we don't know about her features below the neck. But she's got nice eyes and a nice smile, so maybe somewhere in the crazy limit of the "fun zone" of the Hot/Crazy matrix, assuming of course that she dates men.
A close look at the back of her hair suggests green coloration; that's a sign that maybe she's higher up on the "Crazy" axis and over the No-Go diagonal line.
Finally, given the awful tripe she (presumably) wrote about her course, it really doesn't matter how hot she is or might be, she's just f'n nuts.
No wonder many graduates don’t want to (and can’t) repay their student loans. I wouldn’t want to pay for such useless “educational” rubbish, either. And it doesn’t even qualify graduates to drive Uber cabs or flip cheap hamburgers
Some idiots are borrowing money to have this nonsense inflicted upon themselves.
They should be made to pay every day for the rest of their lives.
that is one good looking nazi
It says something obvious and simple - biological sex defines male and female.
It calls this oppressive and that’s bad.
They hate nature and nature’s Creator.
https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit
“Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
Oh ... a bullshit artist!
I majored in English too. I can discuss Irish Literature and William Blake. We were gently encouraged not to discuss our fellow students’ sexual preferences unless it was a one-on-one sort of discussion out of class. That was called “getting lucky”
If you know about and understand the underlying premise then, in a word...YES.
...indoctrinating students in cultural Marxism.
You first have to spend time understanding cultural Marxism.
Obviously, others have done just that while others have not.
My only thought is that there is a ton of money to be made in this “deprogramming”. Wish I had the skills, I’d set up shop today.
She's just far enough along on the Hot axis to tolerate a little "extra credit" activity if you're in her class.
After all, college is supposed to be 'work.'
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