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The Alcoholic Horndog Tenured Professor Stereotype: Who’s Afraid of Virginia...
Here’s the latest in the Post Academic series “The Alcoholic Horndog Tenured Professor Stereotype,” which reviews movies that have helped contribute to the bad reputation of professors. Each movie is...
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Academic Stereotype Fun With Urban Dictionary
I usually wind up visiting Urban Dictionary when I hear a term I don’t understand on VH1, and the definition is usually much worse than I thought. The site also provides sassy definitions for ordinary...
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The Alcoholic Horndog Tenured Professor Stereotype: Wonder Boys
This movie is the Great White Whale in the Alcoholic Horndog Professor Stereotype series. It features a novelist-professor running around in a pink bathrobe fretting about how he can’t finish his...
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The Alcoholic Horndog Tenured Professor Stereotype on Film: Smart People
At first glance, “Smart People” seems like a knockoff of “Wonder Boys.” A dowdy professor finds love and has to deal with a precocious young adult along the way. Only in this case, “Smart People” swaps...
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The Alcoholic Tenured Professor Stereotype on Film: Doctor Detroit
For anyone who assumes that all professor-oriented films are twee affairs that feature pompous characters exploring their navels, Post Academic gives you “Doctor Detroit.” No other film rivals it. It...
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The Alcoholic Horndog Tenured Professor Stereotype: The Squid and the Whale
Although “The Squid and the Whale” appears to be a wistful yet quirky look back at the breakup of a literary-powerhouse marriage, but I kept thinking that it was a modern take on “Who’s Afraid of...
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No Respect! Thomas H. Benton on the Rising Rage Against the Professor
The title for the latest by Thomas H. Benton/William Pannapacker is a little plaintive: “Why Do They Hate Us?” Of course, “Us” refers to academics. Although I haven’t been a member of the academic...
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Where Rage Against the Professor Comes From
Okay, some misguided and soon-to-be disappointed soul ends up at Post Academic after typing “ass school” in a search engine. We apologize for not delivering what you were looking for, and you can stop...
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Punishing Everyone to Root Out a Slacker: Never a Good Idea
One of the reasons people get so angry at professors is the existence of genuine academic assholes. They do indeed exist, but they are not representative of the profession. I’ve said this before: If...
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The Alcoholic Horndog Tenured Professor Stereotype on Film: Ball of Fire
Some movies in the “Horndog” series have been better than others, but most of them suffer from a single plot point–the assumption that academics do not, under any circumstances, interact with others...
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