“Business” is a broad term. Someone who is running a tech startup or working as a financial analyst/CEO have no time for this kind of self-absorbed trash, same goes for most business owners except those who market specifically to the LGBT community. Do LGBT people somehow use AppleWatch or iPhone differently? Do they somehow need different features in their car? Do they need different coffeemakers? Eat different types of food? If not why should any ordinary business need to understand them specifically? Someone who plans to work in human resource on the other hand, is probably a LibArt major where such modern “literature” of self-absorption might come in handy, in case a potential recruit happens to be LGBT and the HR person feels the need to be “culturally sensitive”, but then don’t LGBT people just want to be treated like everyone else anyway? So why the need to be treated as a separate entity?"
When someone said that being conservative doesn’t make someone narrow minded, this post is a classic example of why people make claims like that,this post classically illustrates it. “The books is whiny trash, and is not great literature?”. How do you know? Have you read it? More importantly, are you aware that "great literature’ , that is commonly considered great literature, has been trashed as being garbage, immoral garbage, etc? James Joyce Ulysses was banned in the US (go figure, so much for our supposed freedom), today it is a standard text used in English classes. The are some on the left who say Huck Finn should be banned as ‘racist trash’ (and they are much like the OP on this one, many of them have not read the book or can’t get beyond its use of the N word) or want to ban the Merchant of Venice, or as happened in NYC, where they practically got a teacher fired because she assigned a book called “Nappy Haired” and claimed it was a racist insult, when the book was written by a black where it talks about the beauty of all kinds of hair types and looks, the people enraged never even read the book.
The OP also shows tremendous ignorance of the work world, my guess is they live in a place where everyone is the same, probably all straight white conservative Christians (at least on the surface). The answer to that is very simple, if you work anywhere but in small town America, you are going to be working with people who are different, who are Muslim, Jewish, atheist, people who are liberal, people who are gay, who are transgendered, who are from India and China and Russia and God knows where, and you have to understand people are different. More importantly, that those differences are what can help make a company stronger. If you believe everything in life is a balance sheet or a dupont valuation formula or lines of code, you are going to have a very hard time, because if you really want to do something special, it takes a lot of skills. There was an article in the NY Times recently talking about the kids who go to elite schools like HYP, who have been these monster students, 4. 0 GPA, get their Harvard MBA, then find themselves doing analysis work alone, that they don’t get promoted, don’t get the interesting assignments…and why? Because they lacked the soft skills, the human understanding and such, that are required to do such things. BTW, to say HR people are “libart” majors also shows how ignorant the poster is, Most HR managers these days are coming out of business schools with advanced level degrees in it, they are coming out of the same business schools that finance majors are coming out of.
