It's the pits, all right.
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.”
It's the pits, all right.
I was being deliberately obtuse...:)
It’s a way to get good grades without working for them. Not shaving or shaving for a GRADE? Easy “A.”
“Women and Gender Studies Professor Breanne Fahs”
Proof that the point of feminism is to enable ugly women to convince attractive women that they should stop being so appealing to men.
She looks like Al Capone.
OMG, LMAO!!
She has evil eyes.
Extra credit for purposefully doing nothing. Are Obamaphones handed out at graduation?
Under the arm! Under the arm! Under the arm...PITT!
lol, not back in my day!
This is so Seventies.
-=080=-
And, the Sixties Still Suck.......
O _ o
You must not have visited lib places, like Hawaii or Eugene, OR.
Not a lot of visible shaving going on.
Ick! ;-)
Indeed.
I’ve, usually, found the hairy wimmen in blue states.
Breanne Fahs(Fass) is yet another homely Jewish progressive fembot in denial of gender reality because men never pursued them
She is precisely the exact same template of female that spawned feminism....the movement arguably did the most harm.....especially to children than any of that snake oil that sprang from the Beats and Hippies and the Radicals
College is infected with it...
Especially college towns.
“Whaaa? What else is there?”
google ‘Brazilian wax’. Not Safe For Work....
“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?”
Well, we have to find baristas somewhere!
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