Letters to the Editor
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WS is one of the biggest loads of crap...
...you could ever dream-up.
It has to be the only field in which the conclusion is always known before you start any research, and the conclusion never changes: "It's all men's fault."
The ONLY intellectual work ever required in the field is using your imagination to make everything men's fault. And the more indirect the blame which can be cast onto men, the more brilliant the analysis is judged to be. A more blatant example of backwards reasoning is difficult to find.
I work in academia, and you can spot the WS majors a mile away: they're intellectually lazy to the core and the only skills they learn are how to write papers for other WS majors. Almost every other department regards it as a complete joke. I advise ALL of my students to avoid WS classes like the plague beause they systematically replace your brain with a simple-minded ideology.
It really is no wonder that so many feminist academics spent most of the '90s taking the wrong side in the Science Wars. You read the garbage from the WS departments in which they gripe that the sciences are all a bunch of "white male departments" which are "hostile to women and people of color" and then you actually GO OVER to the physics departments 10 minutes away and you see the labs are full of Chinese and Indian women who didn't seem to get the message that they aren't welcome there.
PAH-thetic.