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**twiffatticy** · 04-10-2008, 07:16 AM

Originally posted by Perfection
English teachers are old women, old women hate SciFi. Not to inject an unwelcome not of reality into this misogynist fantasy fest, but -- just to pick the two most obvious examples -- men outnumber women on the Yale English faculty and massively outnumber them Harvard English faculty (by more that 2:1); since commonly held cultural definitions of literature tend to be derived from work done in institutions like the Harvard and Yale English departments, rather than from the opinions of internet posters with mommy issues, I'd say your reasoning leaves a lot to be desired.

04-10-2008, 07:16 AM	#14
twiffatticy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 641 Senior Member	Originally posted by Perfection English teachers are old women, old women hate SciFi. Not to inject an unwelcome not of reality into this misogynist fantasy fest, but -- just to pick the two most obvious examples -- men outnumber women on the Yale English faculty and massively outnumber them Harvard English faculty (by more that 2:1); since commonly held cultural definitions of literature tend to be derived from work done in institutions like the Harvard and Yale English departments, rather than from the opinions of internet posters with mommy issues, I'd say your reasoning leaves a lot to be desired.
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