Oh yeah I hear you. I’m sad too. It sucks. I always expect better of senior scholars and I so often get disappointed. Especially lately.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I only found out about this last night, so I am still shocked and sulking and having Big Feelings all over the place, so bear with me for a minute. I haven't read everything yet, but kudos to you and all the folks calling this BS out.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly
A friend of mine texted me the morning after he got rude a second time and told me she knows people who had him as an MA thesis advisor and he was great...and I’m sure he was, as long as you didn’t rock his boat.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Whoops, are we allowed to use emojis? Or is it just GIFs that are bad and wrong?
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Replying to @UglyShmugly
Haha, I bet emojis fall under that remit as being uncivil or whatever. But yeah he clearly could not handle a young female grad student telling him off. Criticism from white senior scholars was totally fine though. And he just blocked Dr Kim and ignored Dr Rambaran-Olm.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
The sad thing is that I seriously considered *not* talking about this on Twitter because I am a grad student. But then I realized I'm a Mean Old Lady Who Doesn't Give A Shit. Interesting who is chosen for backlash though, huh?
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Replying to @UglyShmugly
Well like I keep saying, the culture of fear that permeates academia is insidious and horrible. We gotta stand up and we gotta stand up for each other. It’s scary to say something as a grad student, but we have every right to criticize them.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
It gets scary because the field gets smaller and smaller as you specialize. I'm not even comfortable finishing the rest of my thought here publicly now. Damn. But yes, it's really freaking important to critique each other & *accept* that critique, not as an attack on your ego.
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Replying to @UglyShmugly
This is true, but what I’ve learned these past several weeks is that many senior scholars have no problems being horrible to us, even if we’re just voicing an opinion and they aren’t in the conversation, or just asking them questions for more info.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
There's something about academia that makes (some) folks make pronouncements instead of talking, and believe that their opinion is factual. The rigid hierarchy that exists is pretty problematic too: grad students aren't collaborators, they're minions or supplicants or something.
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