If English majors want to be taken seriously, the first thing we need to do is to stop internalizing all the self-loathing imposed on us by assholes who think it’s a useless degree.
English and the liberal arts might not have equipped me with the perfect skillset for this shitty economy / zeitgeist, but they did teach me the importance of critically examining the world I live in. The unexamined life, etc.
