Wednesday, May 08, 2013

You must love what you teach …

 The Thaumolyzers. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

What … dispirited me today?  A proposed course on fairy tales. Those tales are rich funds of folk wisdom, found around world. They demand our respect; I wouldn’t trust a man who despised them. But I’ve just reviewed a syllabus, written in jargon that is its own mocking parody, for a course which aims to expose these works of art as if they were relentless vermin, always returning through some cultural crack or vent to spread the bacilli of misogyny.

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