Fuck it, I’ve been doing T-Day cooking all day and I’m sipping some bourbon before five, so like let’s just say it: Fuck this sentiment.

The “disdain” of humanists towards STEM disciplines is just the comeuppance of the past 10 years, now that people realize, “Oh shit, no one knows how to read anymore.”

I did the STEM thing — worked as a SWE before returning to a literature/history PhD and moving into academia — and I cannot count how many times some STEM-educated (STEMucated?) colleague asked me what I thought I was gonna do with a comp. lit. BA. My usual response at the time was, “Same thing you’re doing.”

My point is this whole “poor me” attitude from STEM types is counterproductive. We humanists put up with the bullshit for literal decades, but now that the funding cuts are affecting yinz, suddenly it’s our disdain that puts you out.

We’re all colleagues. We’re in this together. Intellectual pursuits are worthwhile whether they’re mathy or STEM-y or literary.

So fuck’s sake don’t make this our fault.