O XKCD, how cruel thou art

The comic is not a very big fan of people who devote their lives to furthering the understanding of literature and culture. I take a small amount of comfort in assuming that my major, classical literature, would be more difficult than generic literary criticism to fake one's way through, simply given the number of languages one must know just to become a grad student. Hmph. Scientists aren't the only legit academics—it's just a few fields that give the rest of us a bad name.