Why do people hate English Majors? Is it because we are stupid,

>>8383447
It's because your only potential job will be a highschool English teacher and we all hated our highschool English teachers for their periods of prolonged eye contact and awkward back rubs after class.

>>8383447
I'm a history major

>>8383447
I don't.
I want to date an English major qt

I'd say language is the most important thing there is. The question now is, OP, what you plan to do with your knowledge.

>>8383447
I hate you because literary analysis is ultra-mega-pleb-tier philosophical analysis.

>>8383453
>muh jobs

potential jobs for english majors are basically anything that has to do with reading and writing as a job due to transferable skills rather than specialised knowledge

the real reason people hate english majors is because they tend to have no actual love for literature or language even though they pride themselves on the fact that it makes up the bulk of their identity

>>8384367
But it's a required course :(

>>8383453
A lot of lawyers were english majors

>>8383447
thats how i dress, black shrit and tan pants short hair and clean shave

is this common amongst english majors

>>8384378
fuck you talkin bout anon

>>8384367
literary analysis should be a step of learning to philosophical analysis.
Why people do it for all their lives just goes all over my head

>>8384378
Literary criticism is a required course? I think you either haven't been to university or don't actually know what literary criticism and literary theory actually are. Its generally a basterdized form of structuralism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, or Marxism.

>>8383447
probably yeah

if ur a girl you can always marry some rich fuck tho so no prob

>>8384383
that's not a positive you slimy shtetl-dwelling fuck

>>8384411
analysis=!criticism

what are we talking about

>>8384367
I used the word 'analysis' in this post to refer to either reading and writing about literature or reading and writing (about) philosophy.

>>8384424
>=!
!=* ugh fuckin kill me now

>>8384426
DELET DIS

>>8384430
!==*

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as a jaded programmer I'm fairly jealous that liberal arts majors were supported by their parents to major in something they wanted to be educated, and probably with classmates that weren't autists

I realized yes, a lot of the world runs on rigorous stuff like engineering and medicine, but mostly only the modern world and the bovine lifestyle of the average modern consumer is not something I wish to subsidize with my skills with

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads, that sucks.”

>mfw the Imnotarobot recaptcha identification thing literally made me identify and click billboards

>>8384441
I am the only one that loves how Slavoj zizkek talks?
I hear his voice when I read him, it's beautiful

>>8383453
Found the guy that knows nothing about college degrees.

How do you fake having a degree? I know some writing jobs and that will require a degree, so how could you get by without it but they think you do?

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>>8384383
I'm a lawyer who was an English major. AMA.

>>8384471
That's literally the only thing anyone likes about him retard

>>8383453
My 12th grade English teacher was one of the coolest teachers I had in high school, but he was also the only male one I ever had in all of my education. It was also his first year as a teacher, so he hadn't had the time to become a boring and soulless person.

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>>8384441

Your post takes the pain away a little.

>>8384517
>That's literally the only thing anyone likes about him retard

I've posited that Žižek runs around in a ballet dance with his words and rants because part of him wants to avoid explicitly stating his ideas in the language of colonialism and that his best works are probably kept to his native tongue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek_bibliography#Works_in_Slovenian

>>8384383
Second that.

>>8384411
I misunderstood what anon was asking. I do have a class titled "Literary Analysis" however, and it is required.

>>8384515
Does that make you a double parasite?

>>8384515
Did you put "frogposter" on your resume and did your boss go "wow we need a diversity hire, you faggot"

Im a library science major. Is that good?

>>8384608
I feel like my level of parasitism is relatively low, and I pay my taxes.

>>8383447
The logic is purely utilitarian -- that you could remove literature without having a negative impact on society. I suppose it's reasonable.

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>>8384611
The legal hiring process is based almost entirely on your school and your grades at that school. Even if I had post-ironically put "frogposter" on my resume, it would likely have made no difference.

>>8383447

Half of the annoyance is due to the abysmal state of modern humanities.

Which is deserved, really.

>>8384642
That's pretty dumb. Here private companies will ask for recommendations of your professors, other lawyers and your impression during the interview. Very few fucks are given to grades because women are the majority of students and they are more often than not worse than their male counterparts.
But for a state job they look at grades, thus women have largely fucked up our judicial system, especially in the highest levels. The constitutional court was ran to the ground by a woman. She got elected a second time.

>>8384919
Why is it dumb? It's an objective representation of your performance in a law-related setting, and directly compares you against your peers (all law schools save Yale grade on a hard curve). We have an even split of women/men here, and all the women are very competent. The only reason firms might hesitate to hire/promote women is because of pregnancy/family concerns.

>>8384615
How old are you?

>>8384615
You should probably reconsider if you ever want to get a job, but it's pretty neat generally

Most English lit grads I've met were very poor thinkers and completely insufferable people.

I did History but I've read way more novels than every English student I know, which makes me kinda sad.

>>8385720
23.
>>8386736
I actually thought it might be a step up from an english degree. Theres 3 libraries in my small small town and I think I can convince them to hire me.

>>8384372
>potential jobs for english majors are basically anything that has to do with reading and writing
Translation: "my degree taught me nothing applicable in the real world but at least it was expensive". Can you dig earth at least?

>>8384515
What's the most (You)s' you've got on one post?

>>8384372
>they tend to have no actual love for literature or language
This, Phil major here, I always get excited when I meet an english major, and then disappointed because they generally have little to no understanding of the works they read other than being able to parrot back their profs opinion, and while they pretend they like to read, you can tell it's really become more of a chore for class, than actual love.

>>8384411
Hermeneutics is actually at the root of phenomenology, it wouldn't have evolved in the way it did without literary criticism of the romantics.

>>8383453
Why does this seem so common? I liked all of my English teachers. If people disliked their teachers you would think it would turn them away from the discipline.

>>8384372
>the real reason people hate english majors is because they tend to have no actual love for literature or language even though they pride themselves on the fact that it makes up the bulk of their identity
Accurate. It's a bit of a shock when you get to university and by far the least well read are often the lit students.

>>8383447
You picked the subject that requires the bare minimum of effort.

As somebody who doesn't have a degree, I will tell you do not listen to the STEM overlords. You did the right thing in getting a degree at least.

>>8386980
By far? I don't know what university you go to, but practically no one reads at mine. I took a class with mostly STEM students and it was surprising how clueless they were not just in literature, but in the humanities in general.

I just think no one reads nowadays

>>8384528
I know that most teachers are female, but none of your other teachers were male? Where did you go to school?

I'm from a rural area and about 2/5 of my classes were taught by guys.

>>8386887
This is it.

>>8386859
Potential jobs I've interned for this summer have been an advertisement company that writes the ads for products (starts at 60k) and a company that does PR for law firms (that pays based off your amount of work and client, the best employee there making 80k working from home if they don't feel like coming into the office.

I get an e-mail from the chair of our English department once a week detailing writing internships in our area. Sometimes the even have paid internships for "critical readers" whatever the fuck that entails.

>>8383447
>Is it because we are stupid, annoying, and useless?
not stupid if you study enough. useless and annoying tho, yes. its almost as bad as the artist types who think they have some kind of meaning in life. if you had become a doctor and worked instead, you would have a place in the state. but you dont, and you are a cunt.

>>8384628

Parasite is such a strange insult. It's a compelling metaphor, but 2/3 of all species on earth are parasites. A grape vine is, in its natural state a parasite.

>>8387129
I never quite understood myself, especially in relation the corporate work we do. It's, like, we help companies comply with laws relevant to their transactions, and we help them get a fair deal. I guess in a sense we are parasties to the transaction and the corporation, but that's a result of the system.

>>8383453
Show me on the doll where your english teacher touched you anon

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>>8386991
His shit doesn't make sense. Lit students will almost always be the most well-read at a university. Why else would they do it? Lit isn't really an "I don't know what to major" major. That's like Political Science, Economics, etc. from my experience.

>>8387422
I get the point that many lit students don't seem to be really into their discipline and don't read much outside of class, but the claim that "lit students are so stupid they are actually the least well-read!" seems like he's trying to shit on them for internet points

>>8384638
>purely utilitarian
>reasonable

Stop being such a fucking philistine.

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>>8387431
Well, I think in college they don't read much outside of class because they read so much in class. But all the former Lit majors I know still read consistently, despite how busy we all are.

>>8383447
I feel like it's because what we do has some of the least immediately visible "real world" impact. I must admit, I've caught myself sitting in class talking about theory, lit crit, whatever, and thinking "What the fuck are we ACTUALLY doing here?"