*eyeroll*

[kaigou]

Dear author:

You wrote, "Solicitations for volunteers [for the survey] were sent to Buffistas.com, All Things Philosophical on Angel and Buffy, Slayage.tv, and the Bronze; these either did not respond to the solicitations or refused to post them."

Unh-hunh. After reviewing your pathetic excuse for a hypothesis: "Series-oriented fans see themselves as loyal to the series; whereas story-oriented fans see themselves as loyal to the story, the characters, and/or the relationships.*" ...I suspect it's less that ATPoBtVS refused to post the survey link, so much as the First Evil is a smart enough evil that she saw little reason to make the rest of us suffer through your idiocy.

nolove,
the Second Evil


*Did you really think the owner/moderator of a site called All Things Philosophical — with pages listing extensive treatises comparing the existentialist, pragmatist, and essentialist themes in the show and that's just for the appetizer — wasn't going to be able to nail a false dichotomy at a hundred paces?

Comments

[leorising]

Sorry, I should've written the acronym out to start with.

Reminiscent of that gal you were talking about who thinks mentioning her weak points is equivalent to actually dealing with her weak points. This one has extra FAIL and a cherry on top, though, because she knows her hypothesis is weak and won't even put it out to the smart kids for vetting. A good hypothesis should stand up to snark, don't you think?

To me, much of Academe is a lot of smart and semi-smart people jacking off smaller and smaller butterflies to win acclaim from smaller and smaller populations of other people who are preoccupied with jacking off butterflies. Or counting the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin, if you prefer. The whole environment invites and honors poseurs and bullshit artists, IMO. Okay if that's what floats your boat, but me, I just don't see the point. Life's too fucking short.

Yurgh. :P

[kraehe.livejournal.com]

"To me, much of Academe is a lot of smart and semi-smart people jacking off smaller and smaller butterflies to win acclaim from smaller and smaller populations of other people who are preoccupied with jacking off butterflies. Or counting the number of angels dancing on the head of a pin, if you prefer. The whole environment invites and honors poseurs and bullshit artists, IMO. Okay if that's what floats your boat, but me, I just don't see the point. Life's too fucking short."

This.

Also, Is Graduate School a Cult? (http://chronicle.com/article/Is-Graduate-School-a-Cult-/44676/)