The scariest thing is she posted this on Twitter like it's something to be proud of. I can imagine the look on the parents face asking what they did in class and getting we played with Lego knockoffs
They're not even Lego. They're Duplo, which is Lego for babies who are so dumb that they'd choke on regular Lego and don't physically possess the motor skills to put it together anyway.
I don't see what the problem is. No one bats an eye when college students do labs or projects using applied chemistry or applied math. It's not out of the norm for engineering students to apply their skills to do a mock design project. Other departments may do things like "the concrete canoe". This is just applied gender studies. This is their "concrete canoe".
Employers often seek out liberal arts graduates, knowing that a liberal arts education emphasizes critical thinking, writing, and presentation skills. A liberal arts degree shows an employer that you have studied a wide variety of topics and probably have a broader view of the world than other applicants. A Women’s and Gender Studies major provides all of these benefits and more:
Expertise in finding and using information on contemporary social issues
An understanding of differences of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and social class
Insight into the connections among different forms of oppression
A foundation for analyzing inequities and initiating change
This preparation in critical thinking and social awareness is also excellent background for students pursuing graduate and professional degrees.
Sometimes...but I'm very skeptical of anyone whose argument is essentially 'A diverse group of other people think I'm retarded! That must make me smart!'.
dang. in the US you're expected to take internships that are mostly unpaid
In fact my gf in law school recently had a fund raiser purely from the law students to later give to a few select law students as a stipend for summer break doing usually unpaid work.
Most functional countries have law societies that properly regulate law schools, and enforce laws against blatantly lying about post-graduation employment rates.
What pros? Because for the life of me I can't see any? It's costing me almost 100k for a 4 year education and I'm not even guaranteed to get a job right out of college
The thing with free college is that it has two possible drawbacks: or there is not enough money (if the admission criteria is relaxed) or people that could actually study get rejected (if the admission criteria is strong). Also, the market mechanisms have its own advantages over the government controlling the whole thing (but its own drawbacks too).
The US system indebts people (with some big economic consequences that are worth being debated), but if you see the results a lot of people are able to study and some of the best colleges in the world exist there. For most people is worth taking that debt, it's only a minority that gets screwed by it.
My college had funding problems, by the way. I still found it extremely useful, but I experienced some of those drawbacks I told you about.
Full time White workers who are high school graduates with no college make 696 bucks a week. White bachelor degreed fucks make 1,132.
696*52= 36,192 a year
1132*52= 58,864 a year.
Median per capita income regardless of education is 32,000.
Average student loan is 37,000 dollars. Your retarded ass better have studied something worthwhile, because if you majored in something other than Chocolate or Post-Bussy Studies you will make 22,700 dollars more a year than non-educated people. If you make that median salary from 22 to 50 you will have earned 635,000 more dollars than a full time high school diploma. That's what the fucking pros are: you make almost double median income and you get to lord your degree over retarded plebs at parties (assuming you aren't autistic).
Well I got good news and I got bad news. Good news is you're studying sociology so you're not autistic. Bad news is you've never Googled "average student loan debt" or "median income by education" which means you're probably not learning anything of actual value in school.
I know reddit likes to shit on non-STEM degrees, but they college degree actually really does increase wages significantly. Even if subjects that are basically political tracts, so long as you can basically explain bullshit in an articulate way.
Someone always wins the lottery, it doesn't mean it's a good idea to go buy a ticket. It's more about maximizing your job placement potential than a matter of what's possible.
Fuck no, you could get a maths degree through a BA, which will grant down upon you the magnificent title of 'Permanently Unemployed'.
Degrees are meaning less every year, and the corperate interest has shifted to vocational skills courses, many of which are diplomas. These are things that actually train skills relevant to jobs, unlike many university degrees which are mainly academic.
There is even a public drive being started right now to help spread awareness of what employers actually want, and to help reiterate that you don't need a degree for many jobs.
A degree is good, but for most jobs corporate training should have you covered. For instance, leadership courses teach how to talk to people and explain shit.
The problem is that if wanted a semi-decent free higher education I would have to go back to Brazil and I would rather live in a third-world european shithole like Macedonia FYROM than going back to that dumpster fire of a country.
If i was going to use toys to study intersectionality I would use Transformers. I would have Optimus Gay passing the matrix of oppression to Rodimus Tranny. A new era is born.
The terrible irony is that they can spend all day making Lego sculptures to blame the patriarchy for choosing a shit subject but at the same time be the driving force behind it all by being retarded enough to get suckered into funding my engineering degree. I say if they're dumb enough to do that then let them do it 💯👊🎉💜
So let me get this straight, I wasted my fucking youth on books and notebooks while these whales played with lego and they pretend their degree is worth is even 1/10 of mine?
When parents blindly threw their kids into a 5-6 fig college meat grinder that they remember paying a couple thousand for instead of using their acute HOA whining skills to protest.
"Research on neoliberalism, violence, feminism, education. Professor @sussexgender but these are my views. Feminist; queer; Prince; give over.🐝 #WIASN"
When the revolution comes, she will not be on the list of the spared.
Only because she's female too. If a male professor made adults play with baby toys to demonstrate a nebulous, hare-brained, unscientific concept, nobody would say shit!
Fuck me, I had many three o'clock late nights and stress rushing to finish my dissertation and these fucks play with lego and call it academia. Mayocide can't come soon enough.
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1 boyoyoyoyong 2017-10-19
The scariest thing is she posted this on Twitter like it's something to be proud of. I can imagine the look on the parents face asking what they did in class and getting we played with Lego knockoffs
1 0987654231 2017-10-19
some of that lego isn't even put together right, imagine making to university and being too stupid to play with legos
1 Successful-Troll 2017-10-19
My 4 year old makes better legos. I guess he is a fucking genius,
1 SDIHTD 2017-10-19
Just woke.
1 DontTrustRedditors 2017-10-19
Autism often presents itself first through superior spatial reasoning.
1 heavenlytoaster 2017-10-19
Does that mean what thea students have is good ol' regular retardation?
1 Teh_Jews 2017-10-19
wooo I'm probably not autistic and just ADD then cuz my brain doesn't process spatial relations. Small victories.
1 NationalDenbt 2017-10-19
They're not even Lego. They're Duplo, which is Lego for babies who are so dumb that they'd choke on regular Lego and don't physically possess the motor skills to put it together anyway.
1 OccasionallyClueless 2017-10-19
Spending all that fucking money per year and they get fucking DUPLO?
1 aGolfHipster 2017-10-19
I don't see what the problem is. No one bats an eye when college students do labs or projects using applied chemistry or applied math. It's not out of the norm for engineering students to apply their skills to do a mock design project. Other departments may do things like "the concrete canoe". This is just applied gender studies. This is their "concrete canoe".
1 Alexlincoln2 2017-10-19
Except gender studies itself is useless, at least engineering students learn something from the application of their field. Ate do we learn from this?
1 youre_a_tard 2017-10-19
Actual drivel from a college website:
Employers often seek out liberal arts graduates, knowing that a liberal arts education emphasizes critical thinking, writing, and presentation skills. A liberal arts degree shows an employer that you have studied a wide variety of topics and probably have a broader view of the world than other applicants. A Women’s and Gender Studies major provides all of these benefits and more:
Expertise in finding and using information on contemporary social issues An understanding of differences of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and social class Insight into the connections among different forms of oppression A foundation for analyzing inequities and initiating change This preparation in critical thinking and social awareness is also excellent background for students pursuing graduate and professional degrees.
1 DontTrustRedditors 2017-10-19
That's funny, because right below, is this:
Which shows that you understand the problem perfectly well.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Not sure if serious.
1 aGolfHipster 2017-10-19
I really hate using the "/s" tag. It's like adding a laugh track. I thought comparing a shitty duplo build to a concrete canoe would be enough.
1 jack_be_numb 2017-10-19
You're probably trolling but,
Applied engineering: Landing a rover on mars
Applied biology: Ending mass starvation
Applied economics: Running the central bank or building a business
Applied gender studies: incomprehensible lego sculptures
1 TheTassieDevil 2017-10-19
Tbf you might do this for a lesson if your studying education...
1 snappleteadrink 2017-10-19
Looking up concrete canoe they "make it work" by using a different concrete or adding foam, seems lame
1 botchlings 2017-10-19
If your kid is getting a degree in gender studies you're probably already used to disappointment from them.
1 dildo_schwaginz 2017-10-19
How's the Mattress Queen?
1 HivemindBuster 2017-10-19
The MRAs/Radfems did this
1 CultOfCuck 2017-10-19
/r/Drama strikes again!
1 pepperouchau 2017-10-19
C R Y P T O H A T E
1 Moonskij 2017-10-19
It was posted on voat several days ago..
1 better_bot 2017-10-19
Tbh, pissing off mras and radfems is something to be proud of.
1 DontTrustRedditors 2017-10-19
Sometimes...but I'm very skeptical of anyone whose argument is essentially 'A diverse group of other people think I'm retarded! That must make me smart!'.
I'm sure you can understand.
1 Karmaisforsuckers 2017-10-19
Neck yourself
1 bat_mayn 2017-10-19
1 youpostyoudie 2017-10-19
/r/drama isn't regular people you fool
1 bat_mayn 2017-10-19
How do you figure I'm talking about /r/Drama or the unfortunate souls who populate it?
1 youpostyoudie 2017-10-19
Aren't we the people laughing at her?
1 CirqueDuFuder 2017-10-19
I imagine any sane individual that reads about it would mock it.
1 youpostyoudie 2017-10-19
Keep imaging what sane people think.
1 CirqueDuFuder 2017-10-19
What isn't mock worthy by this absurd lunacy in a university no less?
1 EarnestNoMeta 2017-10-19
Craig Ames@cs_ames
Replying to @alisonphipps
It did help me find someone worth following. The way they piled on is gross “I don’t like what this prof is doing. Send the minions!”
1 -absolutego- 2017-10-19
Ah yes, "gross", the calling card of immature numales and their social-justice obsessed targets everywhere.
1 ____________13 2017-10-19
"even groups who disagree on every single other issue can find common ground calling me a retard"
1 no_maps_no_plans 2017-10-19
30k a year for adult daycare
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2017-10-19
I remember paying $500/month for daycare, but I guess the diapers get nastier as they get older.
1 localhorst 2017-10-19
Smells terrible after a night of beer.
1 OnlyRacistOnReddit 2017-10-19
I've changed a 30 year old's diaper... that thought kinda makes me glad he's quadriplegic.
1 klaotis 2017-10-19
LMAO. Meanwhile,
my parentsI only have to pay around 4500€ to complete my university and I am not even a citizen of the country where I study.1 ComedicSans 2017-10-19
Wtf I love the EU now.
Just kidding, I finished law school debt-free.
Sucks to be an American, tho.
1 TheGhostOfRichPiana 2017-10-19
How did you manage to finish law debt free in NZ?
1 ComedicSans 2017-10-19
I earned money while studying, and I'm not retarded.
1 TheGhostOfRichPiana 2017-10-19
I see. Must be nice doing an easy degree where you can work enough at the same time to pay it off :)
1 ComedicSans 2017-10-19
If only there were long holiday periods during the summer where I could work 🤔 🤔 🤔
1 TheGhostOfRichPiana 2017-10-19
Long holiday periods? How luxurious for you
1 ComedicSans 2017-10-19
Welcome to a functional first-world nation, famalam.
1 TheSonofLiberty 2017-10-19
dang. in the US you're expected to take internships that are mostly unpaid
In fact my gf in law school recently had a fund raiser purely from the law students to later give to a few select law students as a stipend for summer break doing usually unpaid work.
1 Going_up_the_Country 2017-10-19
Most functional countries have law societies that properly regulate law schools, and enforce laws against blatantly lying about post-graduation employment rates.
1 uniqueguy263 2017-10-19
We have 51 of them (DC has its own separate one) cause we're 51 times as functional.
1 Neronoah 2017-10-19
The US system has pro and cons, people shouldn't be so quick to shit on it.
I say this as someone who went to a free college.
1 fucknazimodz 2017-10-19
What pros? Because for the life of me I can't see any? It's costing me almost 100k for a 4 year education and I'm not even guaranteed to get a job right out of college
1 ligga4nife 2017-10-19
Your taxes go to bomb brown people instead of preaching feminism to leg beards
1 fucknazimodz 2017-10-19
Tru
1 Neronoah 2017-10-19
The thing with free college is that it has two possible drawbacks: or there is not enough money (if the admission criteria is relaxed) or people that could actually study get rejected (if the admission criteria is strong). Also, the market mechanisms have its own advantages over the government controlling the whole thing (but its own drawbacks too).
The US system indebts people (with some big economic consequences that are worth being debated), but if you see the results a lot of people are able to study and some of the best colleges in the world exist there. For most people is worth taking that debt, it's only a minority that gets screwed by it.
My college had funding problems, by the way. I still found it extremely useful, but I experienced some of those drawbacks I told you about.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Do you think the state is going to pay you to go Harvard?
1 jaredschaffer27 2017-10-19
Full time White workers who are high school graduates with no college make 696 bucks a week. White bachelor degreed fucks make 1,132.
696*52= 36,192 a year
1132*52= 58,864 a year.
Median per capita income regardless of education is 32,000.
Average student loan is 37,000 dollars. Your retarded ass better have studied something worthwhile, because if you majored in something other than Chocolate or Post-Bussy Studies you will make 22,700 dollars more a year than non-educated people. If you make that median salary from 22 to 50 you will have earned 635,000 more dollars than a full time high school diploma. That's what the fucking pros are: you make almost double median income and you get to lord your degree over retarded plebs at parties (assuming you aren't autistic).
1 fucknazimodz 2017-10-19
Sociology is STEM right?
1 jaredschaffer27 2017-10-19
Well I got good news and I got bad news. Good news is you're studying sociology so you're not autistic. Bad news is you've never Googled "average student loan debt" or "median income by education" which means you're probably not learning anything of actual value in school.
1 fucknazimodz 2017-10-19
I was joking. I'm bio
1 jaredschaffer27 2017-10-19
I'm straight, but thanks for sharing.
1 fucknazimodz 2017-10-19
Straight
In r/Drama
Pick one.
1 jaredschaffer27 2017-10-19
I identify as straight.
1 fucknazimodz 2017-10-19
Lmao faggot
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Yuros aren't real lawyers, tho. They are more like clerks.
1 ComedicSans 2017-10-19
Sure, but this way I get to mock Eurotrash and Yankees.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Fair.
1 notangryjustupset 2017-10-19
I know reddit likes to shit on non-STEM degrees, but they college degree actually really does increase wages significantly. Even if subjects that are basically political tracts, so long as you can basically explain bullshit in an articulate way.
1 ArchangelleLovesRape 2017-10-19
Did you get yours in ebonics?
1 notangryjustupset 2017-10-19
Yis sir.
1 grep_var_log 2017-10-19
After the great automation purge, only the liberal arts will be left to make any money from.
1 DickingBimbos247 2017-10-19
with what are they gonna make money?
1 telandrias 2017-10-19
gofundmes for kicking over robot cops from stemlords working with meta-google security devices making robot cops
1 eeso99 2017-10-19
Writing and communication, which automation can't do as well as humans until a true AI is made.
1 DickingBimbos247 2017-10-19
ok but who's gonna read all that shit?
1 heavenlytoaster 2017-10-19
Turning tricks
1 Heydammit 2017-10-19
This user did not go to college.
1 notangryjustupset 2017-10-19
I could have probably proof-read this, once or a dozen times.
1 TheSonofLiberty 2017-10-19
My gf's mom is non-STEM and makes huge bank working as a manager
1 snappleteadrink 2017-10-19
Different time
1 TheSonofLiberty 2017-10-19
true, but I just don't believe the meme that anything non-stem is worthless (and I'm a stem'er)
1 snappleteadrink 2017-10-19
Someone always wins the lottery, it doesn't mean it's a good idea to go buy a ticket. It's more about maximizing your job placement potential than a matter of what's possible.
1 Rodot 2017-10-19
Actually it still is. On average today non-STEM majors still have over 100% ROI on their degrees.
1 fucknazimodz 2017-10-19
The thing is you can't explain intersectionality bullshit in a coherent way...because it's bullshit.
If you just want to be articulate and coherent be an English major.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
You could study History or Literature and learn how to be articulate about, you know, Western Civilization.
1 RollBread 2017-10-19
Fuck no, you could get a maths degree through a BA, which will grant down upon you the magnificent title of 'Permanently Unemployed'.
Degrees are meaning less every year, and the corperate interest has shifted to vocational skills courses, many of which are diplomas. These are things that actually train skills relevant to jobs, unlike many university degrees which are mainly academic.
There is even a public drive being started right now to help spread awareness of what employers actually want, and to help reiterate that you don't need a degree for many jobs.
A degree is good, but for most jobs corporate training should have you covered. For instance, leadership courses teach how to talk to people and explain shit.
1 Chicup 2017-10-19
Yet the most qualified Euros usually come here to study. Your universities suck.
1 klaotis 2017-10-19
[citation needed]
1 serialflamingo 2017-10-19
Lmao @ U cuck
1 klaotis 2017-10-19
The problem is that if wanted a semi-decent free higher education I would have to go back to Brazil and I would rather live in a third-world european shithole like
MacedoniaFYROM than going back to that dumpster fire of a country.1 lebron181 2017-10-19
Brazil should be better than Macedonia.
1 klaotis 2017-10-19
No. No, it is not. At least discount bulgarians get to walk on the streets without the constant fear of being shot by thug.
1 heavenlytoaster 2017-10-19
If the alternative is paying adults to play with the toys I had when I was 2 then you better fucking pay for it yourself.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
1 Teresa_May 2017-10-19
This is the University of Glasgow... they don't pay anything...
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Somebody does.
1 SamWhite 2017-10-19
Her profile says Sussex, not Glasgow, so they pay 9 grand.
1 Teresa_May 2017-10-19
My mistake, different Phippses apparently.
1 SamWhite 2017-10-19
That's a UK university, so it's closer to 12k in dollars.
1 CultOfCuck 2017-10-19
Hahahahaha.
1 Eternal_Mr_Bones 2017-10-19
lol, she even had them use the children's legos.
1 Chin_Up_Chick 2017-10-19
Smaller legos are ableist to the visually impaired.
1 BackMusclesGetMeHard 2017-10-19
heres the thing, you called duplo lego...
1 pepperouchau 2017-10-19
Yeah if they had been making sicc cars and spaceships and shit out of Lego I would have been all "wtf I love gender studies now"
1 ObsessedAussie 2017-10-19
My 1 year old plays with duplo and even I think she's growing it of it.
Da fuck are these people doin?
1 TSA_Precheck 2017-10-19
I'm sorry about your financial situation, I hope things get better.
1 ObsessedAussie 2017-10-19
Cheers mate
1 pepperouchau 2017-10-19
THOSE ARE DUPLO REEEEEEEE
1 saint2e 2017-10-19
Quit mansplaining, Robert.
1 take_a_dumpling 2017-10-19
If i was going to use toys to study intersectionality I would use Transformers. I would have Optimus Gay passing the matrix of oppression to Rodimus Tranny. A new era is born.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Rodimus Tranny: "Quickly, we must form Voltron!"
Optimus Gay: "No can do, buckaroo. Traps aren't gay."
1 Fatty-Kin 2017-10-19
Relevant.
1 take_a_dumpling 2017-10-19
that was really good friendo.
1 Thhueros 2017-10-19
Wow this is shit. I was making better lego castles when I was 8.
1 AgentGotse 2017-10-19
Writing shit on paper is too ableist so their exam will consist of building duplos which describe their feels.
1 not_here_4_points 2017-10-19
Modern society is a cruel, though often also hilarious, joke.
1 MrNotSpecified 2017-10-19
Worst thing is they used Duplo instead of real Legos.
1 IFuckedZoeQuinn 2017-10-19
Feminism is a mental illness. After the mayocide I suggest we move on to womancide.
1 holditsteady 2017-10-19
with a name like u/IFuckedZoeQuinn, i think you might have some mental illness yourself
1 IFuckedZoeQuinn 2017-10-19
Autism isn't considered a mental illness though
1 pepperouchau 2017-10-19
But posting on /r/drama is
1 lie4karma 2017-10-19
I mean given her reputation... how do you know hes not just bragging?
1 ______________pewpew 2017-10-19
With the amount of exposure rape cases are getting, I would say menicide first.
1 NationalDenbt 2017-10-19
The terrible irony is that they can spend all day making Lego sculptures to blame the patriarchy for choosing a shit subject but at the same time be the driving force behind it all by being retarded enough to get suckered into funding my engineering degree. I say if they're dumb enough to do that then let them do it 💯👊🎉💜
1 -absolutego- 2017-10-19
This is the kind of shit that makes me think we need another world war.
1 Russiangreyman 2017-10-19
MFW I have more respect for juggalos than these retards.
1 DeepReally 2017-10-19
https://twitter.com/ToomeyWright/status/920868122512330752
Classic response.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Research on neoliberalism, violence, feminism, education. Professor @sussexgender but these are my views. Feminist; queer; Prince; give over.🐝 #WIASN
1 heavenlytoaster 2017-10-19
WIASN?
Nvm don't care.
1 BigLordShiggot 2017-10-19
Military school for everyone, immediately.
1 Chicup 2017-10-19
Military
schoolfor everyone, immediately.1 pizzashill 2017-10-19
Gender studies was a mistake.
1 JebusGobson 2017-10-19
Agendaposting on r/drama is way more pathetic tbh
1 HivemindBuster 2017-10-19
True.
1 pepperouchau 2017-10-19
Almost as bad as being Belgian
1 JebusGobson 2017-10-19
Not quite that bad tbf
1 metameanderer 2017-10-19
Are they included in "etc." by based spookymama?
1 aggressiveshitpost 2017-10-19
So let me get this straight, I wasted my fucking youth on books and notebooks while these whales played with lego and they pretend their degree is worth is even 1/10 of mine?
GOD HAS A REASON TO HATE US ALL
1 snappleteadrink 2017-10-19
His mess, his responsibility
1 ImDaBestAtWhatIDoAnd 2017-10-19
Legti question, but how did we reach this point in western education? I could've passed college classes like this when I was fucking five years old.
1 snappleteadrink 2017-10-19
When parents blindly threw their kids into a 5-6 fig college meat grinder that they remember paying a couple thousand for instead of using their acute HOA whining skills to protest.
1 Munchausen-By-Proxy 2017-10-19
It's the UK. We decided that everyone should go to university, and the result is that they have to cater to the lowest common denominator.
1 charlie2158 2017-10-19
You're aware that uni fees in the UK are higher than most countries right?
1 XhotwheelsloverX 2017-10-19
Do people pretty much do that anyway?
1 Chicup 2017-10-19
"Research on neoliberalism, violence, feminism, education. Professor @sussexgender but these are my views. Feminist; queer; Prince; give over.🐝 #WIASN"
When the revolution comes, she will not be on the list of the spared.
1 Etra 2017-10-19
ITT: bitter people taking out their frustration on a female university professor because the one they’d like to rant at blocked them.
1 youre_a_tard 2017-10-19
Only because she's female too. If a male professor made adults play with baby toys to demonstrate a nebulous, hare-brained, unscientific concept, nobody would say shit!
1 wolfbetter 2017-10-19
I made better constructions at 8. At my constructions were giant robotics fighting each other...
1 chanilastname 2017-10-19
sometimes you gotta have some fun
1 Wild_Hunt 2017-10-19
Fuck me, I had many three o'clock late nights and stress rushing to finish my dissertation and these fucks play with lego and call it academia. Mayocide can't come soon enough.
1 Munchausen-By-Proxy 2017-10-19
At least they're accurate representations of "intersectionality".
1 Imanidiot77777 2017-10-19
ROCKET MAN HURRY UP WITH THOSE FUCKING NUKES JESUS CHRIST
1 PM_ME_HAIRLESS_CATS 2017-10-19
This is the student loan debt that's going to cause an inevitable bubble.
1 AlyxLovely 2017-10-19
Can we please ban women? Thx
1 DivinePrince2 2017-10-19
Can you sue the university for the money you wasted?