https://x.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/1864007824218427855
Dr. Ally Louks's PhD thesis is set to be one of the most influential theses of 21st century. Puts forward an original argument with remarkable clarity.
— Mushtaq Bilal, PhD (@MushtaqBilalPhD) December 3, 2024
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Most people criticizing her don't understand her argument at all.
I have a PhD in… pic.twitter.com/uNCfYax2Be
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A dude with "PhD" in his Twitter name defending a gal with "Dr" in her name and handle.
The thesis itself is not so much notable in its ridiculousness as much as how mundane its claims are once the edifice of social justice jargon gets stripped away:
People don't like bad smells.
Avoidance of bad smells is correlated with better social and economic standing.
Groups facing discrimination often have their smell used as a justification.
These group/smell associations are present in fiction, reinforcing the existing social norms.
That's it. Today you learned why being a garbage man isn't elite, especially if he's an immigrant. !sophistry
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Is that what the whole darn thing was about? Dont judge people because they stink?
They targeted !g*mers
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!g*mers !anime what do you think of these kind of self-flagellation of g*mers and anime events, have they no respect? I don't actually go to any of these things in person but I can't imagine them being that bad beyond becoming a meme about not washing.
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Most fighting game tournaments I've been to have been mostly normal dudes either in college or gainfully employed, a couple of shy/quirky but more or less friendly and inoffensive nerds, and maybe 1 or 2 degenerate slobs who smell like sewage.
The one smash bros tourney I was dragged to by a friend was the mirror of that, and both of the notably smelly guys from the street fighter tourneys were there. The venue owners wife went and bought one of those autospraying air fresheners because it was so bad.
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G*mers deserve worse
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G*mers!
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Her stupid theory is undermined when everyone has access to a shower, even when you're very poor.
Like seriously just use some goddarn soap and water.
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have you considered that forcing indians to wash is an anti-cultural white norm and hides the plurality of ethnic scents? E.g. curry for indians, lucky7 smoke for Blacks and that weird way latinx smell?
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It's more that whatever differences in smell a despised group has will be weaponized against them, even if the smell wouldn't have been considered bad before. At least, that's what I assume she'd say, but maybe I'm assuming too much reasoning.
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exactly. groups are despised for no reason whatsoever, they just happen to stink by coincidence.
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I used to work at a factory in the Midwest. Every morning the lunchroom would be overwhelmed with the smell of BO and hot garbage. I honestly don't think I've ever seen such a diversity of races in one place.
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new race: stinkymericans
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I mean they were all white, but the stench was like a different race. You can smell the smell of the races!
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ok but it's not very progressive of us to just ASSUME BIPOCs are gonna bathe
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magic the gathering and warhammer dorks dont bathe either.
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If millions of magic and warhammer dorks were invading your country people would also complain about the smell
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See? Brown people can be as stinky as mayos.
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ye I was waiting for something clever but it's the academe's midwit muddle.
this is the only possibility with potential, but it's a platitude. If you remember the Aussie breakdancing foid and her doctoral thesis it had the same sort of suggestion (something like "the relation between bodies uncovering new potentialities" etc).
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I think the problem is even then she's only writing about smell in fiction so it's not like she's actually describing something reflective of reality, but rather a reflection of it through the lens of the author, etc etc
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Her thesis is for an english literature degree, which she is currently using to teach english literature. Essentially it is very expensive daycare for the social sciences.
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oh lmao thats what it is i thought it was about the smell of the page. thats more r-slurred
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I don't even mind she has Dr in her name, at least for now. She just earned it, it's an achievement, I think it's fine to do that.
It's if she's still got it in her name in five years' time that would be notable.
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World's longest "send bobs n vageen" screed
She's still going to think you stink, Mushtaq. No matter what her thesis suggests.
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!antibharatiya
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For example, when I write about this guy Mushtaq, I might use words such as "hot shit in the sun" or "street vendors cooking shit in 100 degree weather" and these phrases describe societal structures which might be problematic even if Mushtaq really does smell like a turd in the middle of a busy road.
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as soon as I read the topic of the pHD i knew she'd be relying on the movie Parasite for her central thesis....it's named on gthe first page alongside two english lit classics lmao fricking dying
i can't imagine being so basic and writing a pHd about it. Parasite made the same point as her two year pHd in two hours
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This guy should learn to bury the lead when making bait
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*lede
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LEED.
Trust me, I'm HVAC certified
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No he was right
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Oh, so another phony doctor.
Honestly there might be something to how different races perceive each other through smell, but any discussion of that outside of rigorous scientific testing is a waste of time.
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Funding application submitted to study the smell dynamics and equity of odor in attractive women's vaginas with a healthy BMI
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One of the most influential theses of 21st century you say?
Ok, let's look at it's predictive power
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The predictive power here is as follows:
You stink --> no gf
shower --> still no gf
suicide --> anime waifu in another world
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Two things can be true
1. Chuds were being weird about this
2. Not every doctoral thesis is good or contributes to society, even ones submitted to Cambridge
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3. BIPOCs do stink
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I swear, you can get any r-slurred concept published in some social science journal as long as you use the right buzzwords.
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It's a thesis, not a journal article.
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Doesn't matter they accept slop like this in actual journals.
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scholars in the fake sciences don't publish the results from the phd research in journals? in most real sciences you can't even get a phd if you haven't been able to publish a few papers.
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He's acting as if they read this bullshit and didn't get it. The point is that it's not worth reading because the entire topic is a joke that shouldn't exist as a PhD field.
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It could be an interesting topic. How smells were used in fiction to demonstrate power balances. But her writing is awful and sounds like a generic university politics checklist. She also keeps calling it "olfactory oppression" when someone smells bad and other people dont want to be around them.
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Sure, there might be some interesting findings there. I'm more so reacting to his strawman. The picture went viral based purely on the topic. It was just a pic of her and the cover which said "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose." No one pretended to read her dissertation in the first place, but this guy is acting like they did and just couldn't understand it.
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Anyone who uses the words "subverting" and/or "power structures" in their thesis should, and I say this unironically and in the most fedposty way possible, be sentenced to death by a revolutionary tribunal.
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I would have chosen a more narrow period/georgraphical area to focus on. But I haven't read it and you have to request a copy if you want to
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I oppressed a jeet at costco one time by leaving the aisle where his shitass stank self was shopping!
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tbh 90% probably don't and think it's about Burger social justice and not some shit some neighbors wrote in books
but it's also stupid and a waste of a fricking topic like wtf
but most of the comments are like some dude that works as a refrigerator technician sneeding about "you fricking people think you're better than me, did fricking Biden pay for this?"
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project 2025 can't come soon enough
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Uh oh, I made a stinky!
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I dont get it
*sips tea*
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you cannot trust any non stem academic, if they were smart they would not be doing some soft cope subject
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Baby jirl af tweet, im sure shes a moron because academia is a daycare for the new rich's trust fund kids but i dont necessarily disagree. I read the XIII comics and i enjoy them, but they smell awful. Whereas a nice smokey paper in something like an old autobiography makes it easier to read
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what does manga smell like?
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I only have two manga but Astro Boy omnibus smells nice, whereas the Riding Shotgun book has a weird desiely smell
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Reading the introduction it doesn't even seem that bad, there's probably tens of thousands of PhD dissertations written in a worse manner about more stupid themes
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Compare it to Jill Biden's PhD thesis for grins
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i'm still not gunna login to read that elon...
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I could accept the thesis as pretty
r-slurrednormal for this area of academia, but no correkshuns just makes me think nepotism of some kind (more than usual at least).Or the examiners didn't actually read it
Which is based
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Snapshots:
https://x.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/1864007824218427855:
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archive.ph (click to archive)
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