My Nightmare and @Andria_XX’s Reality

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Sunday was spent with my wife and kids at her family reunion and, I don’t know, maybe I’m feeling deadline stress on this article about the Virginia gubernatorial campaign I’m supposed to be finishing up for the next print issue of The American Spectator.

Anyway, I woke up this morning after having a horrible nightmare about Miley Cyrus. It was a sex dream. This confirms my Calvinist belief in total human depravity, because anybody who would dream about sex with her is totally depraved.

Do I feel dirty? Sure, but that wasn’t actually the nightmare part.

In the dream, I woke up and Miley was gone, so I stumbled outside half-dressed and there was some kind of deal about her cell phone being lost. Then I started walking toward a restaurant. (Don’t ask why; dreams don’t work that way). On my way to the restaurant, I encountered Miley who was headed back in the other direction. I told her I would find her cell phone and she yelled back that I had better find her Aerosmith tickets, too. (Don’t ask why Miley Cyrus would need tickets to get into an Aerosmith concert; dreams don’t work that way.) So I got to the restaurant, where they had both the phone and the tickets at the front desk, but then the police showed up, and the media, too.

That’s when I woke up, just as it turned into a catastrophic scandal.

Like I say, I attribute this nightmare to deadline stress, rather than to any secret lust for Miley Cyrus, but thank God, it was just a dream.

Not so much for @Andria_XX, the feminist whose reaction to criticism of Miley Cyrus’s VMA performance introduced the world to the word “heteropatriarchal.” Andria has an “Honors BA in Social Justice and Peace Studies” and has nearly completed her Master’s degree in Gender Studies, yet finds herself applying for hotel clerk jobs: “My degrees mean NOTHING. I am at the end of my rope.“

Andria’s plight went viral over the weekend — not in a good way.

My observation that being “an advanced student of useless ideology doesn’t result in meaningful employment” got linked all over the place, including Instapundit and a sidebar headline at Ace of Spades, and Vox Day made a point I hadn’t even considered:

She’s very lucky the service industry will consider hiring anyone with a pulse, because any employer looking at those degrees has to knows she is a walking, talking, sexual harassment and/or discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.
In fact, a Gender Studies degree actually has negative value, given that credentialed feminists are considerably more likely to cause disruption in the workplace.

Exactly: Outside of academia, non-profit activism or certain government jobs, no employer in his right mind would hire someone whose educational credentials identify them as an adherent of radical ideology. Better to major in Esperanto literature, really, than to advertise yourself as one of the Permanently Aggrieved.

Reaction ranged from Captain Capitalism’s embittered schadenfreude (don’t let your hate own you), to Pete Da Tech Guy’s merciful hope for Andria’s redemption (a hope perhaps too fond). But the genuinely horrifying revelation was when David Thompson linked to one of Andria’s Tweets that I had hitherto overlooked:

@Andria_XX‘s plight is kinda like my Miley Cyrus nightmare, a catastrophic scandal exposing a shameful truth. Imagine the moment you realize that your education was not merely a waste of time, but a crippling burden that will haunt you the rest of your life.

Somebody should write a book about that, eh?

 

 

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96 comments

  1. So . . . all the learning about social justice and peace and gender equality, and yet still she worries about getting a house to clean and kids to raise? How patriarchal.

  4. Jeez, didja have to share your nightmare with us, by leading this otherwise excellent post with that nauseating photo? Eye bleach is sorely needed.

    Or ….. were you wearing black and white stripes in this nightmare as well?

  5. Don’t remember what I was wearing, except that I found myself stumbling down the street half-dressed, like in pajamas or something, and I don’t know who called the cops. Probably Miley.

  6. If you were wearing that black and white striped suit on the street, anyone with a sense of style would have broken a finger dialing 911.

  7. Really, the biggest tragedy here is the sheer waste of human potential, sacrificed to the alter of socialism by so-called progressives. Andria might have been an excellent plumber, and Miley a great scientist.

    Now we will never know.

  12. *… our tool is mockery and disdain … Our two tools are mockery and disdain … and snark … Among our tools are mockery, disdain and snark …
    *To paraphrase a rather famous skit …

  14. It has happened in human history that young people act like idiots, then grow up and behave more responsibly later on, which is quite possible with this benighted feminist girl. Maybe it takes a bit longer in our era of prolonged adolescence…

    Maybe RSM has a particular animus against this kind of girl because they mindlessly transmit an ideology which has harms people. But the girl under discussion is a low-level foot soldier, and she has time to wise up.

  15. It’s not deadline stress. You’re afraid your secret lust for Cyrus is going to be uncovered. It’s a pretty classic anxiety dream.

  19. Wait, she went $50K in the hole to get a Masters in Advanced Butthurt? Girlfriend, you could have strolled around Oakland with no pants on for a weekend and gotten that for free!

  21. Yeah, now I do feel sorry for her, even if she did set herself up for failure. She got scammed and scammed hard. (This is why “Victim’s Studies” majors need to go away. Classes should be electives, not four-year programs. But universities are corporations, and even misplaced and mediocre students make them money, so)

    But you know, Andria, it really isn’t too late. Some people didn’t change their lives around until their 60s or even 70s, and became successful. I’m not sure about the kids thing, but there are a lot of kids in need of foster parents, so by the time you get settled, you can adopt?

  26. If Stacy had been wearing the black and white suit in the condition he describes they would have thought he was Bettlejuice and called Ghost Busters. Or the Betty Ford Clinic.

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