Maryland's Professor of the Year
Bill McGurn ·
Mar 10, 2011 at 2:38pm
First Barbie, now this. Certainly not your mother's Chronicle of Higher Education. This school is just one or two blocks from my in-laws, which is why I noticed. It's about Maryland's Teacher of the Year. Here's the paragraph explaining her expertise:
Her research explores the intersection of sexuality and psychology: An early project looked at the way that same-sex and opposite-sex couples negotiate power. She found that only in lesbian couples did money not determine which partner held power in a relationship. She recently presented a paper on genitalia as proxies for gender at a conference but would like to write for a more general audience.
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Re: Maryland's Professor of the Year
It would be funny if it wasn't so horrifying.
May '10
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Anyone want to fold this post into the one about the collapse of civilization?
Jun '10
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It's good that they're helping 20-year-olds expand their interests, beyond all that math and chemistry that they love so much.
May '10
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Bill McGurn:
More propagandizing for the sainted homosexual. In my work at emergency rooms, I often see in lesbian couples what determines "which partner held power in a relationship." It's mostly the lady who is the most butch and, willing to act violently.
Oct '10
Re: Maryland's Professor of the Year
Caligula's horse is now an academic.
Jun '10
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I agree with your point, but aren't you being a bit too hard on horses? The average horse has a lot more sense than Professor Stearns.
Jul '10
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Sick, almost certainly; unintended comedy gold, absolutely. "...Would like to write for a more general audience"...it made me spit up my post-writing bourbon.
Re: Maryland's Professor of the Year
I'm sure my inlaws will be delighted to see their tax dollars supporting such a worth institution.
Jun '10
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As to the second part of that study, I could have helped the good professor out. There have been no negotiations. My wife tells me to do something. Then I do it (though I do occasionally mutter quietly). QED
Dec '10
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I note that this post is on the Main page right above the one using the retirement of Space Shuttle Discovery as a prompt for discussing whether America has given up on discovery in general.
I think that the selection of this individual as Professor of the Year goes a long way to explaining why America seems incapable of pursuing the kind of grand scientific and technological challenges that used to be its hallmark. Instead of training our college students in science and engineering, we're more focused on having them compile a comprehensive list of sexual terms.
Oct '10
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tabula rasa
I agree with your point, but aren't you being a bit too hard on horses? The average horse has a lot more sense than Professor Stearns. · Mar 10 at 3:08pm
And Mr. Ed was far more eloquent than Maryland's Professor of the Year, no doubt.
Jun '10
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Mike LaRoche
tabula rasa
I agree with your point, but aren't you being a bit too hard on horses? The average horse has a lot more sense than Professor Stearns. · Mar 10 at 3:08pm
And Mr. Ed was far more eloquent than Maryland's Professor of the Year, no doubt. · Mar 10 at 3:45pm
I agree, though she would know more dirty words, that good old Mr. Ed.
Jun '10
Re: Maryland's Professor of the Year
Mike LaRoche
tabula rasa
I agree with your point, but aren't you being a bit too hard on horses? The average horse has a lot more sense than Professor Stearns. · Mar 10 at 3:08pm
And Mr. Ed was far more eloquent than Maryland's Professor of the Year, no doubt. · Mar 10 at 3:45pm
I agree, though she would know more dirty words than good old Mr. Ed.
Edited on Mar 10, 2011 at 3:58pmDec '10
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LMAO !
Man you can't make this stuff up....no doubt a good solid B+ was awarded..
Dec '10
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tabula rasa
Mike LaRoche
tabula rasa
I agree with your point, but aren't you being a bit too hard on horses? The average horse has a lot more sense than Professor Stearns. · Mar 10 at 3:08pm
And Mr. Ed was far more eloquent than Maryland's Professor of the Year, no doubt. · Mar 10 at 3:45pm
I agree, though she would know more dirty words, that good old Mr. Ed. · Mar 10 at 3:56pm
Let's not leave out Francis the talking mule.
Oct '10
Re: Maryland's Professor of the Year
Is the Playboy/Penthouse/Hustler readership general?
Aug '10
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Bill McGurn:
Here's the paragraph explaining her expertise:
I honestly have to say that this doesn't bother me. In principle, I could see this as being very interesting and rigorous research. I've had colleagues and grad students who have done work roughly like this that I thought was very good. A lot of stuff like this is indeed garbage, but my point is that there is no necessary reason why such a research question would be bad work.
Jun '10
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anon_academic
Bill McGurn:
[H]er expertise:
[T]his doesn't bother me. In principle, I could see this as being very interesting and rigorous research. I've had colleagues and grad students who have done work roughly like this that I thought was very good. A lot of stuff like this is indeed garbage, but my point is that there is no necessary reason why such a research question would be bad work.
So what if the the work meets the academic standards for such research? What purpose is is served by this kind of research? Is government funding the research? Not being "bad work" is a pretty low hurdle.
All of which raises questions about the fraudulence of gender/gay/race studies programs. Iris Murdoch, the great English novelist said, "Women's Studies can mean that women are led to read mediocre or peripheral books by women rather than the great books of humanity in general.” These PC-based grievance-mongering "disciplines" are drivel.
Another example of learning more about less and less. Sorry. This hit one of my hot buttons.
Aug '10
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tabula rasa,
The kind of thing I'm thinking of as actually contributing value is research that uses (for example) lesbian couples not as some kind of navel-gazing self-esteem affirmative action exercise, but as a natural experiment to understand how gender works in general. I'll go further than saying "not bad work" and say that some of this is pretty good and I would peer review it favorably, though much of it is pretty bad. My real point is that the quality of scholarly work isn't an issue of the giggle test on the substantive phenomenon but the theoretical and methodological rigor applied to it.
On the other hand, I'm not a fan of the "inadequate scholarly attention has been devoted to [insert marginal issue here]" line of argument for justifying a research program. This is especially an issue for the "studies" programs. While I think there is some good work on these substantive problems, almost all of it occurs in traditional disciplines rather than interdisciplinary programs.
May '10
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Well just to debase this conversation a bit... as it happens a Facebook friend (remember I went to Yale) posted the following article just this morning. It certainly must be relevant to the experience of same sex couples in the study of gender differences:
How Gays Split a Check at a Restaurant