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  1. Certified_Heterosexual

    Culture Graduate School Vignette

    Over the winter break I returned to visit a friend of mine from grad school, a PhD student still living in the college town. The following is a short vignette I recall from that short trip— A mournfully obese young man, sitting alone for lunch at an Indian restaurant in a chair too small for...
  2. Certified_Heterosexual

    Beginning Theory (and why you shouldn't): A Brief History of Bad Ideas

    I read a post a few weeks back, at another site. The post read as follows: This post has rustled my jimmies so much that I have decided I cannot allow this to happen again to anyone. In this thread I will attempt to show that for the most part, academic postmodern jargon is a trap that must...
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