Doc Stock's actual academic specialty, dealing with the philosophy of fiction and the concept of "extreme intentionalism", is some of the dumbest bullshit I've ever forced myself to skim through
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She literally wrote this whole goddamn thing about how "You can't say that Jane Eyre, the character, is racist, because the author, Charlotte Bronte, liked Jane Eyre and wanted us to think of her as the hero, and being a racist entails judging her as bad"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That is hilarious and fragile AF. Why am I not (still) in grad school right now
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I do on some level think it's really funny that people get PhDs in the kind of fandom discourse we used to spend all night on LiveJournal arguing about And that Doc Stock's take on this question is so fucking stupid it would get her laughed out of the room instantly
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"Okay you can't use the word 'racist' for what the protagonist of the Turner Diaries is, because 'racist' means 'bad' and IN THE UNIVERSE OF THE STORY AS IMAGINED BY THE AUTHOR his white supremacist beliefs are noble and correct" Basement-tier dogshit takes
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Like if you actually seriously believed this then almost all critical discourse would instantly become impossible Of any kind "You can't say this movie is 'dumb' and 'boring' because the creators intended it to be good and fun"
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She got a PhD for a long-winded version of the "Shh let people enjoy things" comic
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Oh, also her piece on Jane Eyre revealed she hadn't read Jane Eyre, or at least hadn't read it in a very long time -- she confused Jane Eyre with the fanfic/unauthorized sequel Wide Sargasso Sea (she says Bertha's real name is Antoinette, a fact Jean Rhys invented for WSS)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Reminds me of that thing Joanne KR did. Is there a theme of these folks not doing literary analysis well? Some teachers and professors whose classes I had would like a word.
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Doc Stock's whole shtick with being a "philosopher of fiction" is reinventing the wheel in an obnoxious analytical-philosopher way while refusing to ever talk to the people over in the Literature Department who've been doing this stuff for a living for centuries
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Much like her incredible arrogance at just deciding to leap from this field into feminist philosophy without bothering to read a single text from existing feminist philosophy, women's studies, etc because in her mind it was all PoMo garbage (even the stuff that AGREES WITH HER)
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