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thatscarletflycatcher · 19 hours ago

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It is often believed that the worst academic sin is jargon soup, but I present to you: author who presents a very bold interpretational theory and then proceeds to qualify their theory in such a way that makes the original theory practically meaningless but also irrefutable in the process.

#no darling you cannot say that Gaskell adscribes to very rigid understandings of morality divided by sexes #and say that authors that read flexibility in Gaskell that way as wrong #to then by the closing of your chapter affirm that of course this isn't absolute #and that sometimes transgression is celebrated and characters have hybrid male/female virtues and vices #same with Darwinian readings that end with #well of course it's widely accepted that Gaskell defended positions of reconciliation and was against class struggle #no you don't get to use that fake get out of jail card #it's the academic vice that makes me the maddest #stick to your opinions you spineless worm

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