Re: A female misogynist in women's studies

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:36:10 -0700, Grizzlie Antagonist
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On Jul 15, 11:25 am, John Larkin
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:55:31 -0700, Hyerdahl <Hyerda...@xxxxxxx>
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On Jul 15, 6:58 am, "dd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A female misogynist in women's studies
By Denise Noe

I took an Introduction to Women's Studies course many years ago,
taught by a radical feminist. At one point this teacher related that
she had taught one of these courses previously in which she a
conservative male student repeatedly challenged her assertions and
"got a very high grade because he added so much to the discussion."

Was this teacher just talking? On the first day of class, we each
were called upon to say something about ourselves. I was going
through a misogynistic phase and told the teacher and class, "I don't
have any women friends and I don't want any." Later, before a class
started, I told Marcus that I couldn't make it to something she had
recommended because "I've got a date with a guy." She replied
sarcastically, "You always get my day off to a great start!"

The grade I got in that class? An A. Academic freedom lives!

Try taking a class at Oral Roberts University; you may find the same
kind of academic freedom is...shall we say....a bit more rare. :-)

Lawrence Summers was run out of Harvard for making an intelligent and
perceptive suggestion about why women are under-represented in certain
fields. He was probably right, but of course that wasn't the point.

John-



You don't believe any of this.

By your self-hating gender double standards, Lawrence Summers was a
"whiner" simply by virtue of having been a man who made a truthful
observation about women -- while the women who ran him out of Harvard,
rather than being "whiners" -- were somehow acting virtuously for
having done so.

Any time you'd like to start making sense, well, go for it.

What he suggested is that men and women are pretty similar, but that
man may have a wider statistical distribution of talents. That would
lead to more men who are geniuses and also more men who are cretins
(as actually occurrs.) And he added that universities cull the very
best, the high tail of the normal distribution, so they wind up with
more men in certain fields.

It was a reasonable speculation, presented in a private meeting, that
had nothing to do with whining. It was also political dynamite.

This was a case of feminism, and PC groupthink, run wild. Truth is no
longer an academic virtue.

John


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