Now Renegades Are the People With Their Own Philosophies

The Sally Haslanger article (pdf!) Leiter's linked to is a cold blast of perspective. I'll leave it up to PGOAT say more about women philosophers' experiences in grad school and the job market, since she's the she around these parts, but I want to point to one thing. Haslanger talks a bit about hostility within philosophy to feminism. Wanna see what that looks like up close and personal? Lookee here in this random forum:

Feminist Theory? This is philosophy?

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I was peeking around the ol' internets this evening, and stumbled across a page listing philosophy jobs (mostly schools hiring for philosophy teacher positions) and more than a few of them were hiring for "Feminist Philosophy" or "Feminist Theory".

Since when is this philosophy and not sociology? Can anyone tell me what "Feminist Theory" is beside what I think it probably obviously is? Can one devote an entire career to the "theory" of feminism? . . . .

ETA: If "Feminist Theory" is considered philosophy, couldn't "Football Theory" be a valid discipline at that point?

To which some other guy responds:

There are 2 or 3 philosophers at my school whose main interest is feminism. I don't know anything about it and don't care to. I avoid those classes like I avoid race theory classes. I don't have a problem with it or anything; I just don't give a damn.

I might check out "football theory" though. :)

Where the fuck does that hostility come from? Both these asshats seem to be undergrads, so they hardly speak for the profession. But they had to get these attitudes somewhere, and I'll bet it wasn't from random goons they talk to in laundromats.*

*Yeah, I know this post doesn't actually have anything to do with the job market, but I've been looking for an excuse to link to those two knobs for a while, and that Haslanger article is too awesome not to mention.