/lit/ - Literature

>>13742509
>implying anything Godel did outside pure maths has any relevance whatsoever

>>12737162
>dude i can post-hoc justify capitalism through a shallow reading of aristotle
>oh shit, that involves making tons of assumptions
>lol i know, i'll just say everything is "axiomatic"
>this way, i won't have to engage with anyone who disagrees with me
lmao

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>>12255510
>they haven't taken the King Lear pill

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>>11413466
Let me give you an anecdote from a "discussion" (i.e. poorly-moderated debate) I attended.
>Speakers A and B were both gender studies professors.
>Speaker A was a 2nd-wave feminist who believed that womanhood means "possessing a womb."
>Speaker B, on the other hand, was a 3rd-waver who believed that womanhood means "performing femininity."
>In the opening remarks, speaker A insisted that MtF trans people are not, even if they pass as female, women.
>Speaker B immediately countered with the assertion that "trans women are women."
>The actual topic of the discussion (how effective was the feminism of the 1980s?) got completely sidelined in the back-and-forth about gender.
>After 15 minutes, the "host" (i.e. moderator with no spine) reminded them that the actual topic had little to do with trans philosophy.
>Both speaker A and speaker B take turns putting the moderator on blast for saying this.
>Speaker A calls speaker B a traitor for selling her gender out to undercover men.
>People start to leave as the "discussion" becomes a straight-up shouting match.
Speaker A and speaker B had conflicting beliefs both in general (womb vs performance) and in specific (MtF trans people are/aren't women). Neither was going to convince the other of her belief. And it was funny af to watch.

>tl;dr academics can and do disagree with each other.

>>9900734
>sacred corners of the internet
>consists mostly of /pol/-lite and shitposting about books people haven't actually taken the time to read
I've learned more in high school lit, and I'm American. The actual sacred corners of the internet are invite-only and none of us matter enough to be invited. Think slack channels for journalists, private critique groups, publishing industry forums. /lit/ pales in comparison, and is only worth coming to if you've got a superiority complex to feed.

Bugs.. was this board's peak and it'll only be downhill from there.