It is increasingly customary to find professors who appear to love only the fetishes that drive their careers. The Modern Language Association, the dominant professional association of America's English and literature professors, publishes a series of books to teach the professors how to teach. To teach grammar is a political act. It is to call attention to aberrant linguistic behavior, and in the regime of PC egalitarian multiculturalism, no individual is to be oppressed by normalizing standards of any kind. To avoid acts of political oppression, more and more college writing programs are shunning the teaching of grammar.
Responsible teaching is on the wane.
Perverse perspectives, in contrast, are marketed as the easy path to an egalitarian intelligentsia. It's a sexy, consumerist brand of twisted Marxism that fuels the hypocrisy of Postmodern studies. Students can take only those courses that are offered. Thus have the best plans of ambitious majors gone the way of flesh. And the trend does not appear to be near an end, even though students who are far from prudish are tiring of narrow, politicized classes that cheat them out of a solid education.