Academese makes me want to light myself on fire. My MA definitely radicalized me on the topic of jargon.
Oh sorry, that’s the abbreviation for Master of Arts, the degree that I got. I spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME reading deliberately obscure language that is designed (in my opinion) to gatekeep. And this is coming from someone who loves fun vocabulary words. But the way so much academic work is written, you have to “be in the club” to understand it at all, and now I have a kneejerk aversion to that type of writing, whether or not the content is good. It sounds like I’m anti-education, and I’m not! I really just think that academic writing has turned into some kind of acrobatics where you’re just showing off for the other people in the “in crowd” rather than trying to convey an idea.
god i fucking hate academics
Let’s see if i understand this right
drone strikes make the murderers question their sexuality/gender expression(?), because killing things and fighting is traditionally a masc thing, and that makes it easier for their brains to decide if they are morally in the right(? )…for some reason
but with drones because they are very far away, they don’t feel masc when levelling a school with high explosives, and that makes them question their gender or some shit
“You don’t have a moral problem with killing civilians, Private Drone Pilot #347. You’re just questioning your sexuality and gender because drones naturally make you do that - if don’t believe me, just read this liberal arts paper on spatiotemporal phenomenological binaries. The strong soldiers are able to keep killing without succumbing to this, but if you’re weak and make another peep about it being “just a wedding” or some other bullshit, we’re gonna have to revoke your straight male card.”
this is just really advanced “attack helicopter” trolling
Intersectional drone pilots
TIL it’s okay to not have more gay women drone pilots
because being a drone pilot makes you gay in the first place
