mooncryptid:

geekandmisandry:

nonviolentanarchistphilosophy: almightymanatee: there’s so much hate for it??? why?? 1. It’s useless 2. It isn’t scientific, it’s based on narrative and pushing an agenda.

3. The people who major in it go on to bitch about ‘the wage gap’, ‘the job market’, and ‘student debt’ when all of those are a product of their decision to get a useless diploma. 4. Imagine if there was a men’s studies class. Wouldn’t you laugh at anyone who majored in it? I would.

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1. Nope. Provide sources for this claim. 2. Incorrect. Provide sources for this claim. 3. Relates back to your need to prove these are useless diplomas. Provide sources. 4. There are men’s studies classes. Studies on masculinity are not new. Your apparently easy giggle reflexes have nothing to do with the argument. 5. This is not an argument, this is a picture. Taken from a Human Sexualities class.

2. - majoring in english, journalism, social work, education, music, etc, isn’t “scientific” either; those fields are all based on subjective beliefs (like, how should this classroom be managed? or, what makes this novel great?) like what’s the difference between a gender studies major talking about the wage gap and a music performance major talking about the relatively low hiring rates and salaries when compared to sports? both are things that these people have been educated in, and if you haven’t actually taken courses that talk about those things, or even educated yourself on the topics, you really have no authority to determine if the discussion is “useless” or not

3. - i’m an aerospace engineering major, and i talk about those things all the time. like, student debt kicks my ass and really shouldn’t exist in our society. but please, tell me how my student debt is my fault for my major (especially when it’s my ass keeping your ass in the air everything you fly american airlines)

4. - the discussion of masculinity in culture is talked about in basically any philosophy course. hell, my gsa does “men and masculinity” talks every month. men’s studies really isn’t as uncommon and silly as you think it is