P.U! Something smells like bullsh*t!
Oh wait, it’s just another prestigious university gone rotten and a self-congratulating “academic” who’s too enthralled by the smell of her own BS to recognize that nobody outside her Cambridge cocoon wants a whiff of her woke garbage.
Dr. Ally Louks, an instructor at Cambridge University who studies “Olfactory Ethics” recently took to the internet seeking praise for completing her PhD thesis.
Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone. pic.twitter.com/4qwCyFYocX
— Dr Ally Louks (@DrAllyLouks) November 27, 2024
“Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone,” she bragged in the caption above a photo of herself holding the hardcopy.
Her thesis, titled “Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell In Modern And Contemporary Prose” suggests our very sense of smell is rooted in oppression. Disliking the stench of street bums makes you…(you guessed it!) a RACIST!
“The broad aim of this thesis is to offer an intersectional and wide-ranging study of olfactory oppression by establishing the underlying logics that facilitate smell’s application in creating and subverting gender, class, sexual, racial and species power structures,” reads Louks’s abstract.
Since there is some confusion about the nature of my research, here is the abstract for my PhD thesis, which I hope will provide more context for anyone interested in learning more about my work! pic.twitter.com/eN9OsldQ2E
— Dr Ally Louks (@DrAllyLouks) November 29, 2024
She cites “prose fiction from the modern and contemporary periods” in an attempt to prove how literature she deems problematic has maintained a “legacy of olfactory prejudice.”
In Chapter One, she takes a jab at George Orwell among other authors to “explore how smell can be used to indicate class antipathies, partly as they relate to homelessness.” Chapter Two implies our desire for our surroundings to smell better reflects “fantastical, idealistic, and utopic thinking.” The third chapter generalizes black women, specifically, in order to prove that our noses are racist. (Smells like projection!)
“Chapter Three focuses on the intersectional olfactory dimensions of 'misogynoir'-the coextensive anti-Black racism and misogyny that Black women experience,” Louks writes.
If you think it can’t get worse, brace yourselves!
Chapter Four concocts the phrase, “oppressive olfactory logic” to somehow tie the preferences of our noses with “harassment or abuse.” Chapter Five says the smell is… queer! (Had to squeeze the Rainbow people in there somewhere.)
So the next time you pass gas in public, don’t be embarrassed! Just claim you’re decolonizing the air we breathe. If anyone objects to the lovely smell, send them straight to the woke gulag!
