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.”
who does this actually help?
is this really just another psych experiment to see how easy it is to control women?
how many tests do they have to do? we know women are more likely to go along with this kind of crap to conform and not stand out, be shamed into stuff, believe certain things are empowering rather than shaming and degrading depending how it’s sold to them.
Pity Party ping
Remember that old slander “Your mother wears army shoes”? Doesn’t quite have that same punch, does it?
Whoa. Who saw that one coming?
Student Stephanie Robinson said it was a “life changing experience.”
Which leads us to wonder just how incredibly boring young Stephanie's life was before. It's all better now, though.
Participant and student Jaqueline Gonzalez said the experience allowed her to start on a path of activism.
Wow, pit hair is apparently some pretty magical stuff. Inasmuch as an "activist" is a busybody dedicated to telling other people how to live, though, I'm guessing Jacky had it in her all along.
"The experience helped me better understand how pervasive gendered socialization is in our culture."
Funeral services for the English language will be held in the Quad this evening...
Always striving to enhance the value of a Gender Studies BA. The Master’s Program offers credit for not bathing for two years. Imagine what the PhD program will offer.
Are there tests?
If men shave another man’s body from the neck down, they get extra credit in Gay Studies.
Remember, it’s ASU that is partnering with Starbuck’s Coffee to let baristas earn a degree online.
Dropping her in the desert with a compass and no clothes is a life changing experience. Not shaving her pits and legs is a joke.
As an Alum, I am disgusted and disappointed. This kind of garbage along with HUGE tuition increases has happened the last 10 years (rapidly) under the tenure of ASU President Michael Crow. He would like ASU to be the “Harvard of the West”. (cough)
Your football team plays like Harvard.
I can see this on a line in the student’s CV. One that’s bound to help get her a job...
2014 - did not shave leg hair
Feminists are just wrong, but I don’t care if women want to grow armpit and leg hair like monkeys. If they wore proper dresses, it wouldn’t show anyway.
Well as least they wont smell so bad as their school is in a nice and cool location. /sarcasm
See post 37
I am baffled by that and many other degrees. College is very expensive to begin with. Add that to a useless degree and you have a person that is now in debt, wasted 4 or more years of their lives and have little chance of decent wages. It’s just crazy.
VT ( now AZ Cards ) QB Logan Thomas was listed on his team page as majoring in women’s studies.
If a guy has an accident with the Buck Knife does he get an automatic degree in transgender studies?
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