Posted on 11/11/2017 10:17:16 AM PST by simpson96
In a wide-spanning discussion with Professor Jordan Peterson of the University of Toronto, Camille Paglia argued that Women’s and Gender Studies departments should be defunded.
“The English Department had taken a century to develop,” Paglia began. “All of a sudden, to create a department with a politicized agenda from the start taught by people without any training in that field? What should be the parameters of the field? What should be the requirements of the field? How about biology? If you are going to be discussing gender, that should be a number one requirement.”
Paglia argued that active programs in the field were thrown together out of the urgency to highlight women’s issues in the curriculum of the American academy. “The administrators wanted to solve a public relations problem. They had a situation with very few women faculty nationwide, at the time when the women’s movement had just started up. The spotlight of tension was on them. They needed women faculty fast. They needed the women’s subject on the agenda fast. So they just like, poof! ‘Let there be Women’s Studies.'”
“Now we will just hire some women, usually from English departments, and we’ll just throw them together,” she continued. “‘You invent it, you say what it is.’ That is why women’s studies got frozen at a certain point of ideology of the early 1970s.”
Paglia says that early scholars in the field rejected the notion that biology played a role in shaping gender. “I couldn’t even have a conversation with any of these women. They were hysterical about the subject of biology. They knew nothing about hormones. I probably got in fist fights over this. People were so convinced that biology had nothing whatever to do with gender differences.”
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“Paglia argued that active programs in the field were thrown together out of the urgency to highlight women’s issues in the curriculum of the American academy. “
If that is the case, I guess that explains black and lgbtlmnop studies programs. As far as I’m concerned a woman majoring in women’s studies must be a moron and the company that would hire her even bigger morons.
And I thought the English department was pretty useless! Gender studies? How about a White Privilege department?
Essentially, there should be zero government financing of anything that is not directly related to something the student can use to make a living. If you say Journalism, I don’t think that qualifies. Political studies? Not on money borrowed from the government, thank you.
The main aim of “gender studies” fanatics seems to be that all males should be castrated, one way or another.
Why are there no White Studies? Men departments? Heterosexual courses?
There is a list of bogus “studies” programs which were developed across many campuses in the past 40+ years. “Studies” for Womyn, Afro-Americans, Chicano/a, “Ethnic” studies, “LGBTQ” studies etc. etc.
What they all have in common is a lot of bogus left-wing propaganda. You can’t be a professor in any of those fields without proving your left-wing credentials. Intellectual diversity be damned.
That is why a somewhat less extreme but still very liberal Larry Summers, as President of Harvard University, had to be excoriated and expelled when he challenged the execrable Cornel West to actually start doing some serious academic scholarship. Summers merely urged West to work on writing a book that would be worthy of his position as a “University Professor” (the highest rank for only 20 or so of the Harvard faculty of 1,000+). West had a meltdown at this “disrespect” (don’t you know this brotha is revered by Al Sharpton??) and the left purged Larry Summers to show what will happen to any university official who does not toe the line for all the bogus “studies” programs.
A large portion of engineers and pure science majors can’t communicate normally. They need continuous structured language teaching to convey information to another person.
Camilla Paglia and Jordan Peterson—a great combo for raising the alarm.
Yes...and that’s why I despise modern universities! I have 4 sons, 7 grandsons, 8 great-grandsons. What are they...chopped liver?
Most people do not understand this. One of my first jobs was doing "Engineese to Construction worker" translations.
Schools/colleges are nothing but political indoctrination centers to raise and army of social justice warriors.
[As far as I’m concerned a woman majoring in women’s studies must be a moron and the company that would hire her even bigger morons.]
These are to fill the BS positions at corporations now forced on them by EEOC.
“Diversity Coordinator”
“Director of Inclusion”
etc.
Camille Paglia is a cultural jewel. I have always admired her erudition and common sense. What she says is spot on. How can "Women's Studies" exist without a solid foundation in biology? Biology is science; political bullshit/identity politics is not.
"Gender Studies" is junk education, as the "Snowflake"/Safe Places hysterical places crises can attest.
Rush Limbaugh has referred to this book over the years when engaging serious discussion, as the title is often dismissed out of ignorance.
The book is not what the ignorant assume; it is serious and it is seminal. It starkly establishes the huge error of adopting the misleading word, "gender" into any serious discussion of a biological fact.
Male and female human beings are fundamentally different, if complementary.
No emotional, hysterical hissy fits can eliminate nature.
Students take on enormous debts for the opportunity to be “educated” at PC-obsessed universities and colleges.
Tell me about it! I have a cousin, an extremely respected science prof at Wellsley...Hillary’s alma mater. He dare not even look one of his female students in the eye, for fear of having harassment charges brought up! So, he gets through the day, eyes downcast, and endures it for the great pay and benefits. Then he hurries home to his adoring wife and daughters, for sanctuary from the harridans of the modern university!
Aside from the obvious "broad brush" nature of that statement, I think it's a serious error to lump engineers with pure science majors. They need not be mutually exclusive when it comes to communication, as Richard Feynman demonstrated.
I suppose the clearest way to define the difference is to remind everyone that the pure science communicator most commonly is incomprehensible, and thus irrelevant, to the average person: e.g. Stephen Hawking.
Less known engineers in the practical application area, must communicate clearly, can't fake science, because for them, failure to communicate clearly usually means loss of life, occasionally spectacularly.
MAGA Studies....
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