Posted on 10/11/2016 2:02:51 PM PDT by RightGeek
Hey, you! You, with the Starbucks pumpkin-spiced latte in your hand. That ridiculous concoction – with its fluffiness, lack of substance, and triviality – is the ultimate expression of white privilege. So shame on you.
I learned about the true meaning of the pumpkin-spiced latte in a scholarly paper, called The Perilous Whiteness of Pumpkins. It was peer-reviewed and published in a genuine academic journal. Lisa Jordan Powell, its lead author, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia. “Starbucks PSLs are products of coffee shop culture, with its gendered and racial codes,” it warns. They make up just one part of the “pumpkin entertainment complex, whose multiple manifestations continue the entanglements of pumpkins, social capital, race, and place.”
Ms. Powell (who did not respond to an offer to comment on her paper) is merely one of countless academics toiling in the fertile field of race and gender studies. I don’t mean to pick on her in particular. Like everybody else, she must publish or perish. They churn out this stuff like Halloween candy. We pay for it.
Vast tracts of the social sciences have gone insane. If you doubt it, I urge you to check out New Real Peer Review, a Twitter feed whose purpose is to expose the absurdity of what passes for scholarly research. It’s run by a small team of anonymous academics who fear their careers will suffer if people know who they are. They have no shortage of material. Their greatest hit to date is a piece claiming that glaciology – the study of glaciers – is misogynist, and that we need to “feminize” it. (Some people thought that paper was a hoax, but sadly it was not.)
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
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It’s baaack... and never so devilishly P.C. until now...
The Left could be Hitler and be oblivious to it.
For now they’re just settling for the KKK in reverse.
This is why I only go to bikini baristas.
Such a thing has NEVER happened in the history of the world. You are delusional, citizen. Report to Rm. 101 immediately.
Unbeknownst to the author of this stupidity is that pumpkins are actually food, and are eaten with regularity in many countries (i.e. cultures).
I choose to not decorate pumpkins but to actually throw them in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour or so and then cool to room temperature separate the now outer shell from the meat and extract the seeds and use the flesh of the pumpkin for all kinds of dishes such as chili, veggie hashes, pie, general filler etc... Pumpkins are a very good food source which sustains millions globally.
What most of us think of as “pumpkin” is actually the traditional pie spices, and it’s really easy (and cheap) to overdo the spices or get them out of balance. I have made “pumpkin” pie out of carrots and people could not tell the difference.
Table settings, fireplace decorations, baby jack-o-lanterns, small pies.....................
Cool! The one on the left.
What? nothing about the gender binary anti gender spectrum patriarchal symbolism of cutting triangular eyes?
Makes no sense, but more sense than the dumb paper.
I see what you did there.....very clever.
Great! Might try that!..............
“Mining the Motherlode: How ‘Third Wave’ Social Science Criticism of Post -Modern Social Science Criticism Resulted in the Scorched-Earth for ‘Fourth Wave’ Social Sciences and How We Social Scientists Are Coping With It.”
... the title of a well recieved, peer review paper from the year 2097 that deals with the nasty question: is there anything really left to say?
Not a pumpkin fan so this thread is meaningless....
At the rate we are going by 2097 every national holiday will be named “Kill Whitey Day”.
It's supposed to be Snow White
Two artificial pumpkins, and some spray-painted real ones
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