[SeekAndFind]

One of the articles by M. Smith (pseudonym) was titled "Going in Through the Back Door: Challenging Straight Male Homohysteria and Transphobia through Receptive Penetrative Sex Toy Use" was published in Sexuality & Culture in 2018. Another was by Richard Baldwin (borrowed identity) "An Ethnography of Breastaurant Masculinity: Themes of Objectification, Sexual Conquest, Male Control, and Masculine Toughness in a Sexually Objectifying Restaurant" was published in Sex Roles in 2018. Another paper which consisted in a rewriting using feminist jargon of passages from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was accepted by leading feminist journal Affilia – which tells one about all one needs to know.

The hoax was exposed when a Wall Street Journal writer became suspicious and began asking questions. By that time four of the papers had been published, one had won an award, three had been accepted but not yet published, six had been rejected, and seven were still under review. This highly successful record for getting deliberately absurd papers published, including a feminist rewriting of parts of Mein Kampf, seems to support their view that many of these “grievance” journals operate with little to no real academic standards. Needless to say, the “grievance studies” sector of academia were none too happy at being exposed.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Most idiots today want a job that consists of going to the South Pole and counting penguins.

[hardspunned]

What happened to Trump’s apprenticeship program?https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/trump-makes-a-big-push-for-high-school-apprenticeships/2017/06

[Jolla]

I do a lot of home repairs but electricity and plumbing I will not touch. A repair man did a couple of things at our house, cost $50 an hour $200 minimum. Had to wait 4 days for him, said he was putting in 10 hours a day and could not keep up. Just doing basic home repairs.

[RoosterRedux]

A great way to go to college nowadays is to first learn a trade and then work your way through college. You won't have time for the foolishness and you'll get out debt free (and probably with better grades).

And if your career ever gets hiccups, you'll have a trade to fall back on.

[O6ret]

Let’s not denigrate electricians... This is a skilled profession that requires extensive training and years of OJT and apprenticeship. Ditto for many of the other trades. A lazy HS grad without RRR fundamentals to succeed in college is unlikely to have the drive and ability to make it.

[Thank You Rush]

Where did the radicals of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s go to work? Universities. Angela Davis, obozo’s friend - what’s his name from Chicago - when they should have been in PRISON.

[BraveMan]

This reminds me of the tome “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.

[BrexitBen]

The modern “ university “ is the most hyper-expensive, worthless expenditure in the land; even more than an electric car.

[cpdiii]

Take science, technology, engineering, and math. Otherwise do not go to college. Become a plumber and make as much money and not have 200 thousand dollars of student debt.

[Buttons12]

Things I might need desperately one day:

1 Emergency highway auto repair
2 Plumbing repair
3 Electrical repair
4 Piano move
5 Roofing

....

103,879 College educated bystander, cheerleader, critic

[BobL]

The problem with being an electrician is that you sometimes get your hands dirty.

[Chickensoup]

only a philosophy prof would say something so stupid

there are thousands of jobs that require intellegence training and commitment. Over egging one field is ridiculous.

Pretty soon industries will again run their own schools like in the old days

Bank School
IBM School
Insurance School
Automotive repair schools...some do this already
Cooking school
Nursing school
Medical School
Hamburger U
Microsoft School
Accounting School
and on and on

No education establishment in the mix. No need for degrees, Just certificates

[Old Yeller]

Most idiots that go to college are too stupid to become electricians.

[buwaya]

Back in the day (say 200 years ago) philosophy and what we today consider the other liberal arts were the concern of churchmen, aristocrats and gentlemen of independent means. This was considered helpful training in taking up their main responsibility as the natural leaders of society.

Law was a trade. Medicine was a trade. The arts were trades. STEM was either a trade, or a branch of philosophy (see above).

Many prosperous tradesmen and merchants (and their wives and daughters) did dabble in the liberal arts, but it was a hobby.

[MrRelevant]

I tell my 11 year old this all the time.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Beau is both an Electrician and a Plumber. Though retired, he keeps his licenses up to date for the occasional side-gig off the farm.

Wisconsin has excellent Apprenticeship programs starting at the High School level - and still goes wanting for candidates!

Those that are smart enough to go this route can count on being paid well, graduating with no debt and always being busy!

https://dwd.wisconsin.gov/apprenticeship/

[freefdny]

“If I had my life to live over again I’d be a plumber”
Albert Einstein

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I absolutely agree! Electrician, welder, steel fabricator, plumber and pipefitter, heavy equipment operator, Machinist, carpenter, Auto mechanic.

I’ve done them all and was never out of work. Never. I am now retired on a decent pension.

On the other hand, I’ve known some who sat around all day doing nothing, with their thumb up their butt because..

“I don’t want to do that kind of work!”...

while waiting for the chimera of a “management position” in jobs they were not qualified for.

[central_va]

Oh yeah I want to pull heavy gauge wire in the heat, cold and rain when I am in my 50’s.