Posted on 01/30/2019 7:17:40 AM PST by reaganaut1
"Class discussions trend towards group-therapy sessions,” wrote Toni Airaksinen in 2016 for Quillette. At the time, she was studying at Barnard College and described moving from an initial infatuation with gender studies to seeing it as an “absurd intellectual alcove where objective truth is subordinate to academic theories used as political propaganda.”
This lack of grounding in objective truth and the dismissal of facts and knowledge as patriarchal constructs is at the root of criticisms of gender studies. Gender studies advocates were understandably shocked by the recent decision of the Hungarian government to withdraw accreditation from gender studies programs, and the move was condemned by the Association of University Professors as “directly interfer[ring] with the academic freedom of researchers and teachers.”
Certainly, anyone interested in academic freedom should be concerned when the government has the power to decide what can—and what cannot—be studied at universities. Students, rather than governments, should determine an academic discipline’s value. However, the bad news for advocates of gender studies is that careful consideration of the merits of this discipline will lead most students in a different direction.
Women’s Studies Isn’t a Traditional Academic Discipline
Hungary’s prime minister wasn’t alone when he told the international news agency Agence France-Presse that gender studies is “an ideology, not a science.” As David Paternotte, co-editor of the book Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe, told Inside Higher Ed, this is a common critique:
"People saying it’s ideological, it’s not scientific. This is what we hear the most—that it’s a waste of public money, it shouldn’t be a part of what is taught at universities."
Yet this criticism is based in fact: Unlike other academic disciplines, gender studies and its antecedent, women’s studies, are explicitly linked to an ideological movement with a specific political purpose.
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Math is Patriarchy.
Genders are for Spanish nouns.
OH! that’s not what they meant! they meant that people have genders! Wrong! people have 1 out of 2 possible sexes. I know that (tee hee) “sex” sounds rude and also means sexual relations, and saying “sex” makes people titter and snicker, but that’s the word! There are two sexes. One was chosen for you at the moment of conception.
What is the value in women’s studies? It seems to be an ideology and a vehicle for bitching about how women have been discriminated against. And an ideology which gives us no credit for the changes in society which have opened up careers to women and done away with past discrimination.
Black studies seems to be on the same track, as they talk of slavery and 3/5 of a man, with no credit given for abolishing slavery , or the great civil rights laws of the ‘60s which banned the former discrimination.
Now THAT'S a true example of the critical thinking that the Left claims to value.
Gender studies are a joke.
Gender studies professors are far far located from any intelligence.
Gender studies students shouldn’t even be janitors in any good college.
Summary: If: gender studies, Then: dumb*ss.
When you see your local gender studies idiot, give them the respect they deserve: laugh loudly and smirk.
Hungry sure got that one right. I have in the past hired several Stanford grads. The one thing I heard form ALL of them male and female was that the Women’s Studies was required and the entire class spent their time belittling all of the men in the class, particularly the white men. The class is required and complaining about it in anyway got your name on the Provost’s sexist problem list.
I was hiring engineers and scientists. The admin department also hired Stanford grads. As a group they all thought the class was the most important info they ever received. They were also very hard to work with because they didn’t “feel” as though they needed to carryout task received from men. We ended up firing almost everyone of them, most lasted less than a year.
Where exactly are the jobs for this field after graduation? It just seems like you’d ‘breed’ 3,000 idiots a year in this field, and half of them would end up as a Avis car rental managers, or running muffler shops in five years.
:: One was chosen for you at the moment of conception. ::
And, inadvertently, you have hit upon the problem. They didn’t have the choice!
When I was a kid; we used to joke about people who would “Study their Navel”. Now it appears you can get a degree in that. Talk about a waste.
They aren’t studying their navels. Their gaze goes a bit lower ...
Seems every other species on this earth are girls and boys, except the human animals, lately.
Actually, there’s not a whole lot to study. 98% of human females are nurturers. 98% of human males are builders.
Gender has exactly Sweet Fanny Adams to do with sex.
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