💼 Careercow Lyndsay Kirkham - Salty Radfem Professor Who Made a /baph/ thread on Herself to Play the Victim

[chimpburgers]

This shit even made it onto KotakuinAction.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc...w_professor_lyndsay_kirkham_bullies_a_writer/

 

[The Giver]

Eh...

Non-thesis masters are getting more common. They basically cater to people being sent back to school for "asset development" by their company as a part of a promotion to fill certain requirements. One of my M.S.'s is a non-thesis.

There are accelerated programs, but I've never seen one less than 2 years, unless you're finishing it with a bachelors, in which case it's take 5 years for a masters 4 for a bachelors, and not 1 year as an M.S. even if your previous B.S. is from the same university. Though I've never stepped outside STEM, so there is that.

Requirements are typically a policy of the department. My Ph.D didn't have a language requirement, and None of the departments I've been attached to have had one, though I haven't been attached to all departments of all universities everywhere, so I can only state that the absolutely mandatory part seems a little off the mark. [/powerlevel]



EDIT: Sorry for the double post.

I totally agree with what you said for STEM fields. However, it's not clear to me that some of what you say applies to the humanities. In terms of non academic jobs, getting an MA over a BA in English doesn't open up too many more jobs. It's not like you are going to grad school in English to learn a completely new set of skills, as you might say in Computer Science or Physics.

The language requirement thing is sort of the same thing. It makes sense that a Physics (or any other STEM) PhD program doesn't require a foreign language. In the humanities, however, such a requirement is nearly universal. Basically, the difference comes down to not needing to read Einstien in German in order to do physics, but needing to know Greek to say anything academically meaningful about Homer or Plato.

 

[Chemical snorfare]

4 year BA into MA courses are becoming common in the UK. It would be interesting to see whether she has a BA as many 4 year courses skip the award.

 

[chimpburgers]

Necro.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/clair...ergater-and-cartoon-sperg.18299/#post-1316262

 

[MostPeculiar]

Oh wow. I didn't realise this brainwreck has her thread on kiwifarms as well.

This site keeps amazing me on my short journey so far.

She had a tiny minor dumb twitter run-in with GAE just yesterday. Let me see If I can find it, just for the posterity's sake...

EDIT found it, sort of. There's a hellfire in replies, but only GAE showed up. Hint: look what he retweets.

 

[chimpburgers]

Gregory Alan Elliott featured one of Kirkham's tweets as one of the dumbest he's seen this year. This was on my Twitter feed.

 

[Feline Darkmage]

Does this thread prove rape culture?
*xfiles music*

 

[MysteriousStranger]

She done left Twitter, yesterday. I went to follow her and there's nothing to follow.

 

[Isuedmary]

According to http://archive.is/m3huS she appears to be a pretty hilarious, er, batshit insane, woman even according to most feminists.

WARNING AGAINST LYNDSAY KIRKHAM OF TORONTO — AN EMPLOYER’S NIGHTMARE

Lyndsay Kirkham is a resident of Toronto who has been fired from her jobs for cause repeatedly. As someone who remotely knows her and some of her former employers, I am taking this step to warn potential employers against this person.

As she was fired from her most recent job at a feminist publishing company in 2014, she embarked on a vendetta against her own employer, sending out hundreds of e-mails to its customers and contacts containing grossly inappropriate language and allegations against her employer. She also deleted countless files from her employer’s computers, severely sabotaging her own employer and deliberately causing them significant loss.

Her employer had terminated their contract with her for cause. She had demonstrated herself to be grossly incompetent and incapable of carrying out even rudimentary tasks, while at the time behaving in an obnoxious manner, not only against colleagues, but also against the company’s customers and contacts.

As it happens, she has had her employment ended for similar reasons many times. I must therefore warn against this person.

 

[Isuedmary]

The fact that she calls herself a "professor" despite only being a part-time temporary non-tenure track adjunct instructor without a PhD at a community college noone has heard about would qualify her as a "fraudster". It reminds me of Rachel Dolezal, whose former employer sent out this clarification in response to Dolezal's use of the "professor" title:

Since 2010, Rachel Dolezal has been hired at Eastern Washington University on a quarter by quarter basis as an instructor in the Africana Education program. This is a part-time position to address program needs. Dolezal is not a professor.

I'm pretty sure Kirkham is not entitled to be called "professor" either.

 

[drain]

Ok, I have nothing deep or insightful to add, I only want to ask: why all these 'radical feminists' thinks that /baph/ or 4/8/wathever chan or any other 'troll' site is only made of men?
Come on, they think they represents all the 'opressed' women, and that girls cant be 'omg so bad, like these pesky boys on chans'. Bitch, not every woman is a opressed snowflake, and some of us are laughing our asses off at your dumbassery.

 

[Durable Mike Malloy]

The fact that she calls herself a "professor" despite only being a part-time temporary non-tenure track adjunct instructor without a PhD at a community college noone has heard about would qualify her as a "fraudster". It reminds me of Rachel Dolezal, whose former employer sent out this clarification in response to Dolezal's use of the "professor" title:



I'm pretty sure Kirkham is not entitled to be called "professor" either.

I'd only been aware of Humber College from these forums, as Kylie Brooks is enrolled as a student there. Despite her dubious qualifications, Kirkham is listed as a professor on Humber College's website.

While I'm the last person to shit on community colleges - for intro credits that will transfer to a four-year university, they're often a fantastic value - one cannot help but take a dim view of Humber based on its apparent standards.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

If you ever say something is "___ af" you deserve whatever you get

 

[AnOminous]

I'd only been aware of Humber College from these forums, as Kylie Brooks is enrolled as a student there. Despite her dubious qualifications, Kirkham is listed as a professor on Humber College's website.

While I'm the last person to shit on community colleges - for intro credits that will transfer to a four-year university, they're often a fantastic value - one cannot help but take a dim view of Humber based on its apparent standards.

Trufax.

I think they're just calling everyone professor, though, even though that isn't standard practice. It's to exaggerate the qualifications of their faculty, and it really casts doubt on the integrity of the whole college in my eyes. The front page of their website is really shitty and unprofessional, too.

 

[ChuckSlaughter]

Honestly, this is what happens when people fail to recognize that their knowledge or expertise is not shared by everyone. We should always try to understand that people don't always know as much as we do on certain subjects (and not be assholes).

It's not their job to educate you shitlord.

 

[AnOminous]

It's not their job to educate you shitlord.

I imagine Lyndsay being asked a question by a student and saying that.

 

[pozilei]

Was bored and wondering what she was up to, if she's back on twitter (nope) etc and found her instagram. Pretty boring, just selfies and pictures of vegan food. She's still in Vienna.



Well, I guess now we know....

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah it's awful to be so harassed you have to create your own articles defaming yourself on /baphomet/ because literally nobody has any fucking clue who you are or gives a shit about you.