It's like who's making the stories and creating the art designs and characters for these things? If the world was full of engineers.... I don't even wanna think about it... I just kinda felt like getting that off my chest.

EDIT: I'm talking about STEMlord types here, just to be clear. Not STEM majors, but the specific type that loves to lord over the fact that they are superior to other majors. And I say this as someone who did STEM myself but only came to really appreciate the humanities much later.

EDIT 2: This clip from Jurassic Park is so critical here: https://youtu.be/mRNX6XJOeGU

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    In my experience, the opposite is true. Every engineer is falling over themselves to talk about how employable they are compared to filthy dirty humanities, and science majors go on and on about how hard their courses are and how I couldn't possible understand it. People in humanities actually talk about what they are studying.

    • acealeam [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      i mean.. maybe im being that guy but in my experience it's a lot easier to explain humanities classes than advanced math or physics to people who aren't involved in them. i can talk about my essay on health outcomes of indigenous americans with anyone, not so much fluid mechanics. also again, people doing humanities probably like the subject. stembros dont really care about their field

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        You don't have to explain all of music theory to say something like "oh, I'm just really impressed with the bridge on this song." Similarly, you can say "I'm doing some work with atomic composition and it's really a pain." Both cases allow someone to explain with more jargon later but just let someone know what they're up to in their work. I tell people about translation work I'm doing all the time. They don't understand half of it, but they get the gist of it even though it can be highly technical work. The exact same thing applies for science.

    • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I have never heard any other STEM major make fun of anyone but business majors. And I think it's telling that there's no equivalent to the word "STEMlord".

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        Never heard people talking about those dumb Humanities people who major in underwater basket weaving?

      • queenjamie [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I've definitely seen them talk down on humanities compared to STEM. A person I know even agreed with Jordan Peterson that humanities departments should be abolished (or whatever Peterson said I don't exactly remember).

        • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          The only person I've seen express that sentiment was my reactionary uncle who failed out of a STEM program back in the day. Compare all the insecure posters whining online about "STEMlords"...