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
I've done degrees in both a liberal art thing and a science thing so I got to experience both sides of that stuff. My hypothesis for a while has been STEM has been so encouraged as a way of expanding the labor pool to reduce the wages of skilled laborers. My stem classmates were very rarely interested in the course material (myself included honestly) and instead focused on getting a job. My humanities classmates more often wanted to be there, but were maybe a little naive. I don't know.
Also the humanities are often full of questions about why things in society are certain ways. STEM lords will outright not regard sociology and psychology as scientific disciplines, because those are entirely concerned with questioning social behavior. The problem with questioning social behavior in academia is you eventually end up reading Marx and then whoops you can't find a lot of fault in his writings.
im doing the same thing. minor in sociology and civil engineering major. i had an ethics in engineering class and it was like, Do not intentionally make a building that will collapse. Do not commit fraud. Not like, hmmm what are the implications of building missiles 🤔
which would actually be relevant for 99% of engineering students
I did a physical science and we simply didn't have an ethics course. The closest thing was occasionally during our science communication class we'd be told it was unethical to fudge numbers or not report safety hazards properly. 99% of my classmates were going to end up working in petrochem or pharmaceuticals so it wouldn't have done much to warn students about evil companies. Those same evil companies issued all the grants and scholarships.
humanities college students are probably wealthier tbh
Maybe true on average, since STEM is being marketed to the working & middle class as a path to economic stability? But there are idealistic dummies from prole backgrounds who go against the grain and choose to pursue the humanities, even though it almost certainly means permanent destitution. (source: am an idealistic dummy)
Also, for being so "practically minded," the STEMlord types sure go ballistic when a female character in a video game suddenly has realistic armor instead of just a bronze bra while wielding a sword...