Seriously y’all, this would be like getting a PhD in physics and publicly INSISTING gravity acts at a distance instantaneously due to the Newtonian description, rather than at the speed of light, as determined from general relativity. https://twitter.com/joyofphysics/status/1339382409704296448

Also, like, why are you permitted to attain a PhD in literature without having some breadth in linguistics? I feel like the continually shifting of linguistic norms and usages fundamentally impacts the understanding and analysis of literature!!!

Like, haha, physicists and astronomers are bad at math, but this feels a hell of a lot like allowing someone to get a PhD in physics or astronomy without knowing how to do differential equations.

So, either you have some training in linguistics and are STILL a prescriptivist* which, uh, YIKES, or you lack a critical skillset for adequate literary analysis. Either way: this is embarrassing for Dr “All You Need To Know About Grammar Can Be Learned From Schoolhouse Rock.”

*AND NOT EVEN A GOOD PRESCRIPTIVIST BECAUSE SINGULAR THEY IN ENGLISH IS A VERY FUCKING OLD CONCEPT

TL;DR: don’t try to be a smug fucking nerd about gender, “biological sex”, gender expression, gender roles, sexuality, and fucking pronouns, because the queers of academia will ALWAYS outgun you on the nerd shit

Footage of me when dweebs come onto my feed with this “boohoo singular they isn’t grammatically correct and for some reason this causes me emotional distress” shit