Dear Rachel, I'm so sorry you had to endure the humiliation of a public berating by some arrogant asshole. It reminds me so much of the one-upmanship, judging, and posturing I saw in grad school and in academic science - a sort of high level pissing contest. I think of it as the "patriarchal approach" to academics. But it also could be that this particular guy does NOT reflect the attitude of position of the others on the listserv. I'd like to think not. How could any group eschew your beautifully-articulated, brilliant insights and comments? ...Perhaps if they felt threatened, that, oh my God, a person without a PhD could say something more clever and original than some of their more highly educated (&greatly magnified) members had!
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I'm so sorry you had to endure the humiliation of a public berating by some arrogant asshole. It reminds me so much of the one-upmanship, judging, and posturing I saw in grad school and in academic science - a sort of high level pissing contest. I think of it as the "patriarchal approach" to academics.
But it also could be that this particular guy does NOT reflect the attitude of position of the others on the listserv. I'd like to think not. How could any group eschew your beautifully-articulated, brilliant insights and comments? ...Perhaps if they felt threatened, that, oh my God, a person without a PhD could say something more clever and original than some of their more highly educated (&greatly magnified) members had!
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