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Hard Times for Gender Studies Major

Posted on | August 30, 2013 | 341 Comments

Hilarity ensued Monday after @Andria_XX complained that social-media criticism of Miley Cyrus included “bodyshaming/slutshaming” and “heteropatriarchal crap.” Readers will recall that Andria has an “Honors BA in Social Justice and Peace Studies” and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Gender Studies. So . . . how’s that going?

“I have a honors BA and I’m defending my MA thesis
in two weeks. I am also apply for jobs and I can
only find stuff in the service industry. I applied
for a Hotel Front Desk Clerk job today.
My degrees mean NOTHING.
I am at the end of my rope.“

What? Being an advanced student of useless ideology doesn’t result in meaningful employment? That’s just really . . . unfair.

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Category: Education, Feminism

Comments

341 Responses to “Hard Times for Gender Studies Major”

  1. Elron Aven
    August 31st, 2013 @ 11:33 am

    This snowflake has two options – she can suck it up and supersize that Masters into a PhD, then she can run the same scam as the people who scammed her. Alternatively, she can see if the undergrad institution will automatically issue her a 2-year Associate of Arts degree. Then when applying for jobs, only claim the AA degree and REMAIN SILENT about the gender studies crap which just paints you as a malcontent employers would avoid like the plague.

  2. Kirby McCain
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:06 pm

    No no

  3. Dang
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:10 pm

    She has also earned a Masters Degree in getting scammed. Hey Adria, SHOW US THE MONEY you owe on your student loans. It would be like a bonus punchline to your tale of woe.

  4. Steve Gregg
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:13 pm

    It is a sad thing to see your entire Social Justice & Peace Studies house of cards come tumbling down. You probably thought that masters degree would surely get you a corner office in the Social Justice & Peace Studies Corporation, huh? Yet, don’t you see the silver lining in this dark cloud? If there are no jobs making social justice and peace, that means the market is wide open to you! You can open your own store dispensing social justice and peace, then build it into a chain, like Starbucks! You could call it Andria’s.

  5. bet0001970
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:14 pm

    Free market capitalism at it’s very finest!

  6. Kirby McCain
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:18 pm

    Seems we have a contingent of Brown Coats.

  7. bet0001970
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:19 pm

    I’m giving serious thought to spamming Andria’s twitter feed with best comments on this thread.

  8. ThomasD
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:22 pm

    Hey! Social Justice Studies Degrees have a purpose.

    They make plain old sociology degrees seem downright useful.

    Perhaps back in a time when not everyone went to college a degree in anything was better than nothing.

    Now, that ‘higher’ ed is no higher than ordinary ed, notsomuch.

  9. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:22 pm

    Excellent idea! (I hope some of my comments make the cut).

  10. bet0001970
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:24 pm

    Serenity was probably the best argument for individual liberty to come out of Hollywood. The case it made against socialism was devastating. I bet those elitist f’kers hated that movie.

  11. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:26 pm

    That was Puppetry Bet, not Sock-puppetry!

  12. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:32 pm

    Superstar writer or superhero millionaire named “Heteronormative Anti-Patriarchy Being” with an alert searchlight of a giant dildo that would reflect off the clouds when some half-wit fucktard whines they were being oppressed … or a Starbucks barista, whichever is more glamorous and befitting her over-inflated self-worth.

  13. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:34 pm

    Especially in Canuckistan …

  14. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:36 pm

    Usually. However, this example of human excrement would litigate any hotel into receivership the first week.

  15. RMNixonDeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:36 pm

    “Usually. However, this example of human excrement would litigate any hotel into receivership the…” — rmnixondeceased http://t.co/2eP2q0SVSI

  16. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:37 pm

    Heh.

  17. Animal
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:39 pm

    When I was in the Army, I once heard a commander mention to his XO that one particular troop’s chief accomplishments were “sucking up oxygen and turning food into shit.” So it is here.

  18. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:39 pm

    AND buy you a beer …

  19. Privacy Violation
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:42 pm

    Um, I guess her social justice degree didn’t include any African-American studies? Poor Andrea’s a little bit unclear on the totem poll of victimology here and doesn’t seem to understand that racism trumps sexism every time.

    In fact, it’s the A-A community which is most strenuously on Miley’s (& Robin Thicke’s) case for arrogantly, if clumsily, appropriating Black music, dance moves & cultural signifiers from struggling Black entertainers to make more money for Miley’s rich lily-white self and her ultra-wealthy white corporate backers in the recording industry.

    After she gets her Masters in gender studies, she needs to go back to undergraduate school to get remedial indocrination in social justice for the victims of eeeeevil white corpora-tainers who rip off the cultural patrimony of black artists for profit. She’s way behind the Prog curve here.

    I fear that Andrea may not be smart enough to ever grasp this reality, however, which is probably the real reason she can’t find a career with job requirements more intellectually challenging than asking “Do you have a reservation” every three minutes.

  20. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:43 pm

    “He showed me his dongle” or “His dongle was right in plain view” …

  21. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 12:46 pm

    Heh. Being that those positions usually require wearing a butt-plug, all openings would be filled, so to speak …

  22. Nan
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:00 pm

    What kind of heteropterodactyl crap is that? Food service! Bah! Why didn’t you steer her toward a vocation? There are nuns just complaining that nobody is interested in social justice these days. It would be a perfect fit! Oh, wait, maybe not. Nuns don’t get paid so much, do they? And then there’s that whole obedience thing. That could be a problem too.

    Why isn’t she targeting the nonprofit sector? There are tons of nonprofits that are about social justice, peace and weird gender statements, just not all three together so she may have to choose.

  23. Rick Caird
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:16 pm

    She expected to get whatever job she wanted and at a very high rate of pay reflecting her status. The whole idea of her worth to an employer has never darkened her pretty little mind.

  24. jasoncrees
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:16 pm

    Say it ain’t so!
    http://t.co/pp7tthtWHJ
    ROFL!
    #JunkDegrees

  25. curmudgeoninchief
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:19 pm

    It may be time for Andria_XX to engage in a career change. Several women I have worked with in the past have Taken Another Path, Sought An Alternative Job Title, and gotten pregnant when confronted by this sort of discouragement. Some of them were even married. After which, Andria_XX can change her Twitterness to Andria_Mommy or Mommy_XX. She will be fully involved in a career consisting of Early Childhood Development, Pediatric Nursing, and Scheduling. And, in the Land of Obama! , she can apply for all the Government support available, amounting to $35 – 40K of tax-free cash! She would have to work for decades in the fields she is qualified for to reach that income stream. By making the suggested change, she can jump the line and achieve a lower-middle-class lifestyle.

  26. jodi one two
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:21 pm

    You omitted the important part of you post. You know, the part where the SBA (popular front for the liberation of purloined proceeds) posts a $5m grant to facilitate the start-up. Followed closely by another $10m from the USDA because she is willing to convert her HVAC to pig droppings fuel, and another $20m from DOD for fisting studies curriculum compliance for children of disabled Vets.

  27. curmudgeoninchief
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:35 pm

    Dr. John – When I was in school, roughly in the Late Stone Age, our campus had just opened a new college that had “Third-World Studies” as a possible major. Before I escaped with a BA and a Master’s, the new college had added Black Studies and Chicano Studies (yes, I am that old). Until that time, it was almost impossible to graduate with a degree that wouldn’t be useful to some employer. Even Literature majors could be writers, editors, or advertising people. All the “Studies” students were closeted away in their own college and rarely emerged to annoy the rest of us. Apparently they got loose and like the demons escaping from Pandora’s Box are with us always.

  28. Wombat_socho
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:49 pm

    For certain values of the word “sandwich”.

  29. Wombat_socho
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:51 pm

    As if I didn’t have enough young and hot competition already. 🙁

  30. Wombat_socho
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:53 pm

    Yeah, but good luck trying to enlist and get an immediate bump to Gunny. Not in this USMC.

  31. Wombat_socho
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:54 pm

    It’s the Listerine principle. If it doesn’t taste bad or hurt, it can’t REALLY be doing you any good.

  32. Wombat_socho
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:56 pm

    Maybe his daughters will turn out okay, but I doubt it.

  33. Wombat_socho
    August 31st, 2013 @ 1:58 pm

    They’ve got a Tory administration in charge there now. She picked a bad time to be hunting a government job. >:)

  34. Steve Skubinna
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:05 pm

    HR is one solution, but in every corporate environment I have ever experienced, EEO is the refuge for those without marketable skills or competence. It’s made for Gender Studies majors.

    Unfortunately for Princess Special Snowflake, there are only a finite number of EEO positions. Starbucks barista really is her best bet. For one thing, 20 hour employees get benefits.

    I actually think it might be fun, after retirement, to work part time there. Given past history however, I’m more likely to be stacking sacks of bark or moving pallets of cinder block. My Dad, after retiring from 27 years in the USN as a Captain, found himself cleaning out stables at the Del Mar racetrack for something to do.

  35. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:12 pm

    Tim Horton’s it is then. Schlepping doughnuts and coffee to her betters …

  36. Steve Skubinna
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:14 pm

    Back in ’99 or ’00 I set up a laptop for our HR director. In those days laptops didn’t have Ethernet or modem ports (and wi-fi didn’t really exist), so you had a PC card with a dongle to make the connection to the RJ-45 connector. Really spiffy cards had connectors for both Ethernet and a modem.

    Anyway, I showed her how to make the connection and recommended that you leave the card in place and just detach the dongle when traveling. She looked at me funny and I realized that I might have made a dangerous mistake.

    Once I explained the meaning of the word dongle she had a giggle fit. She thought it was so funny that she started browsing tech magazines for dongle references, which she would then bring to my attention. Whenever we we in proximity she had to make a dongle reference, no doubt greatly perplexing bystanders.

  37. V the K
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:17 pm

    You laugh now, because you won’t be when Andria is Secretary of HHS under President Cankles.

  38. bet0001970
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:36 pm

    I like Tim Horton’s.

  39. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:38 pm

    Me too. They make good coffee and great French Crullers …

  40. Third News
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:41 pm

    “You know, making sandwiches” -OK, you are funny but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t render a jury verdict of ‘not guilty’, when your wife accidentally runs you over, reverses her car, backs over your ass, and puts the car in drive and runs…cause you know, she was likely distracted on whether you had asked for a beer too 😉

  41. bet0001970
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:46 pm

    So much “feminist rage”.

  42. David Gillies
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:46 pm

    It’s quite a feat to obtain two degrees and end up less employable than when you started, but dear, dim Andria has managed it. Before, she was qualified to be a shelf-stacker or burger-flipper. Now she’s qualified to be a shelf-stacker/burger-flipper that can use words like ‘heteropatriarchal’ (and really, that should be ‘heteropatriarchical’ cf. hierarchical, oligarchical etc. so she hasn’t even got that going for her, poor lamb.) Perhaps she could keep her diplomas company with something of equal merit, e.g. a 3rd grade swimming certificate or a scroll from the Universal Life Church saying she’s an ordained minister. At least then she could perform weddings, unless they’re too heteropatriarchical.

  43. Kirby McCain
    August 31st, 2013 @ 2:57 pm

    Sorry to disappoint you his wife loves him. He is sooooo lucky. After the kids are out of the house, who knows.

  44. Kirby McCain
    August 31st, 2013 @ 3:08 pm

    Excellent idea sounds like Uncle Fester encouraging Pugsley to blow up the train one more time.

  45. nickshaw
    August 31st, 2013 @ 3:14 pm

    A non-profit?
    Wouldn’t it still be minimum wage?

  46. Kirby McCain
    August 31st, 2013 @ 3:17 pm

    Starbucks has baristas?

    Klatch Coffee is the best on the planet. It’s run by women who do a great job. Crazy, huh?

  47. M. Thompson
    August 31st, 2013 @ 3:18 pm

    That’s even funnier, but I’m not afraid about this at all.

  48. Alessandra
    August 31st, 2013 @ 3:23 pm

    Wait, why is she worried? the gummint will be happy to roll out a 6-figure cash loan help little Andria get a PhD in Advanced Snowflake Studies.

    The thesis’ oral defense: “I’m a homosexual, therefore enough said.”

    Committee swoons with admiration.

    “And I hate all conservatives.”

    Here’s your PhD degree – summa cum laude.

  49. rmnixondeceased
    August 31st, 2013 @ 3:23 pm

    Heh. Just as entertaining too.

  50. Kirby McCain
    August 31st, 2013 @ 3:28 pm

    My laptop bag has a pouch for the wipes.