not the whole male/female thing (one look at any CC class I teach will show the guys tending to drop at twice the rate the gals do, so this article is seriously dealing with an old-news problem).  What I want to know is, what politically correct asshat decided they should redefine hegemony to mean “any pervasive idea?”

This isn’t the first place I’ve seen it… left-leaning academic books are full of the term lately.  But I want to know out of which obscene corner of the MLA conference this abomination crawled, so that the perpetrator can be mocked like a Said wannabe.