What should I include in my thesis? (Now taking requests!)
I started off with “hodge-podge”. At Alex’s request, I’m now attempting to work in “willy-nilly”. Any other amusing words that I can sneak into this stuffy academic paper?
8:50 p.m. You guys are awesome. Please keep this stuff coming. This is going to be the best thesis in Harvard history. Or at least the most uniquely worded one.
9:08 p.m. I’ve decided to live-blog my attempts to include some suggested phrases. They’ll appear in italics.
9:09 p.m. “The hullabaloo over young people’s sexuality was not without consequences. Magazines suggested instituting strict curfews on teenagers, while colleges adopted “parietals”, rules limiting when and for how long a male visitor could be in a female student’s room.”
9:12 p.m. This was the first semi-ridiculous phrase I started with. “The scholarship on sexuality thus far is a hodgepodge of work from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, psychology, gynecology, demography, feminist theory, and criminology.”
9:14 p.m. Currently working on “flimflam”, “hoi polloi”, and “lollygag”. Um, I’m not sure “sexual napalm” is doable unless I also work in a Jessica Simpson reference. Which … could happen. She’s kind of related to my thesis. (It’s on virginity.)
10:10 p.m. “Women, though now technically free to lollygag the day away with their lovers, were still far from achieving equality in practice.”
