If universities come to be coded as “feminine,” what social consequences? Often results in loss of status (causality runs both ways). Maybe “women learn to be social harmony experts at uni, while men prepare for real work at subject-matter bootcamps.”https://twitter.com/robamacl/status/1089579773469360134 …
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Replying to @Meaningness
"Universities"? or "Faculties"? or "Disciplines"? My guess is Faculties (with, perhaps, even a few disciplines in a few places switching faculties because they feel so out of touch with the rest of the faculty? Have switches like that happened in the recent past, say 20th C?)
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Replying to @handleym99 @Meaningness
So Q is, does anything really change? Physics is already coded male, and unlikely to change. Likewise Art History. English becomes *more* female? History (or foreign languages) *more* female?
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Replying to @handleym99
I might worry that fields that are coded male but mostly useless, like physics, just evaporate, if they no longer fit in a coded-feminine uni but also won’t fit in a coded-masculine-job-preparation bootcamp. Some third type of non-uni state-funded research institution needed?
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Replying to @Meaningness
Or is your concern that CONTROL (incl financial control) passes to elements who will not support traditional male disciplines in uni? That seems to me a little to Handmaid's tale away. Maybe in 50 yrs worth worrying about, but doesn't seem serious issue now.
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Replying to @handleym99 @Meaningness
A bigger concern, IMHO, is that disciplines latch onto particular words (patriarchy, racism, colonialism) and imagine that explanation consists of attaching those words to what's to be explained. Nothing is necessary beyond finding the right word.
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Replying to @handleym99 @Meaningness
But that's not new. 1000 years ago most of the faculty thought a great explanation was one that showed how God had made it happen, as proved by line in bible. 150 years ago, why did Europe conquer the world? Because of the spirit of the White Race.
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Replying to @handleym99 @Meaningness
In the 50s why was America doing well? Because of Democracy and Liberty and Capitalism. There have always been meaningless explanatory words. And there have always been a majority of idiots, even in the academy, who believe that labeling is the same thing as explaining.
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So while a history that insists on explaining everything through the kyriarchy won't be great history, it will be what we've had since forever. Decent work still gets done by the 1% with a brain, and the other 99% do their crap which will disappear on the next turn of the wheel.
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Yes, these are good thoughts! I don’t have any strong sense of where any of this is going. I just expressed an offhand speculation based on extrapolating the trends @robamacl pointed to.
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