glad to know the barnard jokes haven’t gotten better since the 80s. maybe people will start to realize they’re not funny and then we can all go back to stress-drinking, stress-eating, and general misery.

The trouble is a lot of universities can’t grasp that you can be the absolute top most expert in your field and in demand at conferences and publishing papers and totally academia famous but none of that really helps if you *can’t actually teach*. It’s fine for dealing with postgrads and guiding their independent…

Lotta strange people in the department then. I took a class with David Albert, which was terrible, and I had to transfer out of a class with akeel bilgrami, because he was a jerk. Did you take classes with palle yourgrau at Barnard? He was great, but I think that he ended up dating an undergrad which was a little…

It’s a shame that the field failed you to the extent that you left. I’m sorry to hear that. I’m worried that your story isn’t unusual for lots of women in philosophy programs.

Wait, you mean you learned more from a 15 minute conversation with (gasp!) another female, than you did in an entire semester with this esteemed asshat? (I really need to invent a font called sarcasm).

I took a class with Professor Pogge at Columbia in the late 80's. I was a Barnard student, and he "joked" that all the Barnard students would drop his class within two weeks, the idea being that we were dumber than Columbia students. His teaching sucked. I got my first migraine in that class from stress. Luckily my…