Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. It includes women's studies (concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics), men's studies and queer studies. Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, has been noted as a success of deconstructionism. Sometimes, gender studies is offered together with study of sexuality. These disciplines study gender and sexuality in the fields of literature, linguistics, human geography, history, political science, archaeology, economics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, cinema, media studies, human development, law, public health and medicine. It also analyses how race, ethnicity, location, class, nationality, and disability intersect with the categories of gender and sexuality.
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A dumbass who only cares bout himself. Also know as a fuckin idiot. Which also coaches football for some reason.
Guy:hey
Guy2: it that the social studies teacher
Guy:yeah :(
Guy2:but this is football practice
Guy:Exactly
Guy2: it that the social studies teacher
Guy:yeah :(
Guy2:but this is football practice
Guy:Exactly
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- abducting small boys and forcing them to defecate and consume own fecal matter
- collecting sperm of transvestite prostitutes in mason jar and hurling said jar into elementary school window at lunchtime
- storing severed fingers inside their anus for months at a time and feeding them to homeless people in sandwich form
- shaving male pubic hair and gluing to own face in the form of a handlebar mustache
- abducting small boys and forcing them to defecate and consume own fecal matter
- collecting sperm of transvestite prostitutes in mason jar and hurling said jar into elementary school window at lunchtime
- storing severed fingers inside their anus for months at a time and feeding them to homeless people in sandwich form
- shaving male pubic hair and gluing to own face in the form of a handlebar mustache
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More socially conservative individuals tend to decry Gender Studies as a useless compared to something like a STEM degree, even though most degrees that can be obtained in a university don't directly lead to anything on their own - there probably isn't a single job that asks specifically for an Art History degree in the application, for instance, but you still see many graduates of that subject comfortably entering the workforce.
Like most liberal arts, the subject is mainly written, so many who take this subject actually end up going to law school.
If an employer that said "any degree applicable" on the application rejects you on the grounds of your degree being in Gender Studies, you probably wouldn't end up liking working for them anyways.
Also, men are welcome. It's not a bunch of feminist straw-women in a lecture hall all the time.
More socially conservative individuals tend to decry Gender Studies as a useless compared to something like a STEM degree, even though most degrees that can be obtained in a university don't directly lead to anything on their own - there probably isn't a single job that asks specifically for an Art History degree in the application, for instance, but you still see many graduates of that subject comfortably entering the workforce.
Like most liberal arts, the subject is mainly written, so many who take this subject actually end up going to law school.
If an employer that said "any degree applicable" on the application rejects you on the grounds of your degree being in Gender Studies, you probably wouldn't end up liking working for them anyways.
Also, men are welcome. It's not a bunch of feminist straw-women in a lecture hall all the time.
Alice: I'm taking Gender Studies as I find the subject interesting, and I want to attend law school at postgraduate level.
Bob: Useless, it doesn't land you a job 0.1 seconds after completing it!
Alice: It's been 2 years since you got that Literature degree and you're still in Gramps' basement.
Bob: Useless, it doesn't land you a job 0.1 seconds after completing it!
Alice: It's been 2 years since you got that Literature degree and you're still in Gramps' basement.
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