Yeah. Yeah, that. (And, before we get further, HAI HAI HAI!!)
I mean, I wouldn't frame it in "reproductive" terms - b/c that tends to rile me - but that whole "outline" of life through one's 40s as an academic is what ultimately made me throw in the towel on that particular plan. It SUCKS, omg, it is VILE and HORRID and ELITIST and NON-INCLUSIVE and EVERYTHING ELSE but it is a sad, hard truth that Academia is still an ivory tower structured for upper-class, white, male success.
If you have a little wifey (or husband), taking care of your kids and home and family, and/or working at some decent-paying job to put you through school and adjunct-hood....then you're good to go. If you've got family money, Mommy and Daddy writing checks for your grad school living, buying you a house to live in/car to drive/medical expenses/etc while you're an adjunct, etc etc...then you're good to go. But there are at least SOME sacrifices to "make it" if you don't have those things going for you, those privileges.
I decided I couldn't do it. I can't have the lifestyle I want and still be an academic of the quality I'd want AND stay sane. Other people can. I really hope other young women will decide they can, because it HURTS me, makes me FURIOUS, to think of all the people "they've kept out".
When ppl are like "blah blah Privilege, it doesn't exist, it's lazy people whining," I want to rant about this exact subject.
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Date: 2009-01-26 08:13 pm (UTC)I mean, I wouldn't frame it in "reproductive" terms - b/c that tends to rile me - but that whole "outline" of life through one's 40s as an academic is what ultimately made me throw in the towel on that particular plan. It SUCKS, omg, it is VILE and HORRID and ELITIST and NON-INCLUSIVE and EVERYTHING ELSE but it is a sad, hard truth that Academia is still an ivory tower structured for upper-class, white, male success.
If you have a little wifey (or husband), taking care of your kids and home and family, and/or working at some decent-paying job to put you through school and adjunct-hood....then you're good to go. If you've got family money, Mommy and Daddy writing checks for your grad school living, buying you a house to live in/car to drive/medical expenses/etc while you're an adjunct, etc etc...then you're good to go. But there are at least SOME sacrifices to "make it" if you don't have those things going for you, those privileges.
I decided I couldn't do it. I can't have the lifestyle I want and still be an academic of the quality I'd want AND stay sane. Other people can. I really hope other young women will decide they can, because it HURTS me, makes me FURIOUS, to think of all the people "they've kept out".
When ppl are like "blah blah Privilege, it doesn't exist, it's lazy people whining," I want to rant about this exact subject.