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Another college bans men from the gym so ‘people of other genders feel safe’
College Fix ^ | MARCH 26, 2018 | GREG PIPER

Posted on 03/27/2018 12:22:45 AM PDT by aquila48

Colleges keep designating spaces as off-limits to men, only to backtrack when someone files a formal complaint or their curious interpretation of inclusivity falls under the harsh glare of the less-woke public.

The latest is the Claremont Consortium’s Pitzer College, which apparently didn’t learn from Stanford’s short-lived no-men weight lifting hours.

The Residence Life office at Pitzer organized a “women and non-binary people’s gym day” at the Gold Student Center Friday, banning men during the high-traffic hours of 2 to 5 p.m.

The intent was to make “people of other genders feel safe to explore the gym, learn about the equipment, or just workout in a man-free space” according to the event listing. It doesn’t mention transgender students, presumably including men who identify as women under the banner of “women.”

The Claremont Independent reports that the organizers haven’t explained “why women and non-binary individuals have difficulty exercising with men, if there have been any incidents in the gym where men have made other genders feel uncomfortable, and where Pitzer males will work out during that closure.”

The paper said male students at Pitzer had to use a gym on its sibling Pomona campus, a 20-minute walk, if they wanted to work out between 2 and 5 on Friday:

There has been no indication whether the school or resident advisors plan to continue allotting hours for women and gender non-binary peoples.

Public spaces that exclude men (however defined) are legally problematic, as University of Michigan-Flint economist Mark Perry has written.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; flint; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; markperry; michigan; pitzercollege; uofmichigan
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To: GOP Poet

Poet, how do women feel about the practice of consistently including women and trangenders in the same group? It seems a bit weird to me (an unrepentent male).


61 posted on 03/27/2018 5:25:42 AM PDT by buffaloguy (Bond arms Cowbot)
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To: Architect of Avalon
“The War on Men continues.” Appears so. Never realized we are so despicable, lol 😝...
62 posted on 03/27/2018 5:25:44 AM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Imagine if they banned women from the gym friday afternoons because men dont want to be bugged by them working out and playing basketball.

A long time ago I used to play squash at the UConn gym. They had eight courts and you could just show up whenever you wanted to and get a game. Then something happened. I don't know if women were previously excluded, but they started using the courts. It was as if they cut the number of courts down to four. It was a disaster.

ML/NJ

63 posted on 03/27/2018 5:36:07 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: buffaloguy
Lumping women in with the freaks is an old Marxist ploy. It's been around since the French Philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in the 1950s.

From Wikipedia:
In "The Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir argued that men had made women the "Other" in society by application of a false aura of "mystery" around them. She argued that men used this as an excuse not to understand women or their problems and not to help them, and that this stereotyping was always done in societies by the group higher in the hierarchy to the group lower in the hierarchy. She wrote that a similar kind of oppression by hierarchy also happened in other categories of identity, such as race, class and religion, but she claimed that it was nowhere more true than with gender in which men stereotyped women and used it as an excuse to organize society into a patriarchy.

Also note this:
The Second Sex, first published in French as Le Deuxième Sexe, turns the existentialist mantra that existence precedes essence into a feminist one: “One is not born but becomes a woman.”

I think this is the original conception of the idea that you can "self-identify" as whatever you want. You are not born one thing or another. You choose to make yourself something in particular. Chromosomes say otherwise, but who cares about science?

64 posted on 03/27/2018 5:36:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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To: aquila48

Liberal bullies are using the same weaponized empathy to ban whites from various places and events.


65 posted on 03/27/2018 5:37:05 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Architect of Avalon

“There needs to be one land mass for straight people and one land mass for freaks.”

Put the freaks on the opposite side of Guam so Guam doesn’t tip over.


66 posted on 03/27/2018 5:55:12 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
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To: dp0622
Moses was transphobic. See Genesis 1.27: "male and female he created them."

Unless, of course, the original wording was "male, female, and non-binary he created them," and a later transphobic copyist omitted the "non-binary" part.

67 posted on 03/27/2018 5:57:30 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: aquila48

they are not banned completely, just a few hours on 1 day? is that correct? That doesn’t sound like a big deal. Sorry in advance!


68 posted on 03/27/2018 6:04:01 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( I wonder what his FR handle is??)
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To: aquila48

Banning “males” is BINARY. I thought there was a whole spectrum of “genders”! Do they ban men who “identify” as women? those who claim to be genderless? insanity, no matter what the answer.


69 posted on 03/27/2018 6:11:32 AM PDT by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: aquila48

Personally, I self-identify as a Most Magesterial Lord of the Universe. I am properly addressed as “Most Worshipful Master, and Rightful Owner of All I Possess”, and the correct way to greet me is prostrate, with bared buttocks presented for the cane, with an offering of not less than $200 or the equivalent in dark chocolate truffles. Watch your microaggressions, dude, or it will be hell for you.


70 posted on 03/27/2018 6:23:36 AM PDT by _longranger81 (In a Yadda-Yadda Da-Vita, Baby)
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To: aquila48
Sexism.

Plain and simple.

71 posted on 03/27/2018 6:58:14 AM PDT by Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey ("I have an open mind ... just not so open that my brain falls out onto the floor!!")
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To: TigerClaws

I recall a teacher, talking in the break room at school, mentioned to her fellow teachers, proudly, that she told a boy he should shut up, as “males have had their time, now it’s our turn”.

...not anticipating the shock of her colleagues which have their own boys in the public school system.

These people really believe this is ok. When my son graduated from university I noted it was about 80% female graduates. My wife and other female family members didn’t even notice.

The education system is now completely tilted toward females. This is not good. At the end of the day both men and women will always hold the standard that men SHOULD be able to support a family, alone. That they don’t have to is optional because women have freedom unlike any other time in history, because of good men, yet it isn’t respected by many women.


72 posted on 03/27/2018 7:03:30 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: aquila48

What sexist, man-hating idiots.


73 posted on 03/27/2018 8:13:33 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: aquila48

Just make them wear some sort of emblem on their clothing to signal everyone who to discriminate against (I saw it in a movie once).


74 posted on 03/27/2018 8:18:25 AM PDT by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; "Frog - The other green meat.")
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To: aquila48

Guys should just say “I identify as a woman between the hours of 2 to 5 PM.”


75 posted on 03/27/2018 8:32:57 AM PDT by Imnidiot (This space for Rent)
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To: mewzilla

Neither needs to be used.

And thank you for correcting me.

Even I was indoctrinated.


76 posted on 03/27/2018 9:39:35 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622
THERE’S ONLY TWO ####ING GENDERS!!!!

If you are referring to humans you are wrong.

There are NO genders. Human beings have sexes (and there are exactly two (with the very rare mutant)), male and female. No living creature has a gender

77 posted on 03/27/2018 10:05:12 AM PDT by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: kearnyirish2

That’s part of the plan.


78 posted on 03/27/2018 12:50:55 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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To: Ciaphas Cain

“Time for male athletes to go Galt.”

Would love to see an entire college football team go on strike and the school replace them with an all lesbo/tranny team.


79 posted on 03/27/2018 1:03:13 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( Hillary, DNC, DOJ and FBI colluded with a British National to influence the 2016 Pres. election)
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To: A strike

80 posted on 03/27/2018 1:15:42 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Nuke deals. See my FR page)
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