Posted on 07/04/2014 11:26:16 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder
"Men are also allowed to receive extra credit, as long as they shave their bodies from the neck down.
Student Stephanie Robinson said it was a “life changing experience.”
Female Arizona State University students can receive extra credit for defying social norms and refusing to shave for 10 weeks during the semester.
Women and Gender Studies Professor Breanne Fahs, encourages her female students to cease shaving their underarms and legs during the semester and document their experiences in a journal.
"One guy did his shaving with a buck knife."
Student Stephanie Robinson said it was a “life changing experience.”
“Many of my friends didn’t want to work out next to me or hear about the assignment, and my mother was distraught at the idea that I would be getting married in a white dress with armpit hair,” Robinson told ASU news.
Men are also allowed to receive extra credit, as long as they shave their bodies from the neck down.
Fahs says the experiment illustrates social issues with gender roles, particularly with the male participants.
“One guy did his shaving with a buck knife,” Fahs said. “Male students tend to adopt the attitude of, ‘I’m a man; I can do what I want.”
As the Director of the Center for Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at ASU, Fahs has been very active in women’s issues. Her academic journals have been published in outlets such as Feminism & Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly and Gender and Society. She has also authored books including Performing Sex, Moral Panics of Sexuality and her newest biography on the life of radical feminist and attempted assassin, Valerie Solonas.
Participant and student Jaqueline Gonzalez said the experience allowed her to start on a path of activism.
“The experience helped me better understand how pervasive gendered socialization is in our culture. Furthermore, by doing this kind of activist project I was no longer an armchair activist theorizing in the classroom.” she said. “So much is learned by actually taking part in the theory or idea we learn in the classroom, and we could benefit from this type of pedagogy being taken up by similar classes.”
How do the LibTards not SEE that making themselves Gender-blended makes them USELESS Mutants which makes them Soylent Green material?
Wasn’t Carlton Heston CLEAR enough on this point? *SMIRK*
What?
That the course of study you take when you want to be a short order cook, unemployed, on welfare or a college professor making more unemployable graduates.
I attended my daughter's graduation a few months ago. There was a couple flipping through the graduation program. They were commenting that several of the degree programs produced graduate that will never get a job in their field or that they were destined to be minimum wage earners with Master's Degrees. It's a pity that someone doesn't give them a swift boot and tell them they will never get a job as a Woman's Study graduate in the real world. If there are jobs, there can't be many.
Wait, wouldn’t this be a form of Islamophobe?
A purse dog smuggler.
I always wonder that too.
While the study of women may be fascinating on some level, how many jobs recruit for graduates with a degree in women’s studies? What place in the economy do such graduates have?
Government "work".
“Who’s checking the men? You know, to see if they really did shave “down there.””
With or without the Buck Knife?
I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything
This is so Seventies. This women is so clueless that she doesn’t understand that girls are shaving a lot more than just armpits these days.
“extra credit”?
That alone proves that the course is useless.
Of course, only if it is to get closer to the gullible, good looking ones who don't know any better!
Whaaa? What else is there?
Boy, I could have become a Rhodes scholar if this is the kind of stuff that would have earned my degree back in the 70s.
It’s things like this that really make me believe I have been transported to an alien universe. I don’t recognize my world anymore.
Well, well now you can get a BA degree in armpit hair. That’a our higher education today.
Now she can experience the hair getting caught while getting out of the chair...
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