Camille Paglia Says that Women’s and Gender Studies Departments Should be Defunded

Breitbart ^ | 10/18/2017 | Tom Ciccotta

[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.”

[Calvin Locke]

Expecting Cornel West to actually do the job he was being paid to do was only part of Summers' undoing. He tried to improve the lackluster School of Education at Harvard, too, again, meeting push-back.

But what sent the liberal arts faculty over brink was Summers saying that "there may be some biological differences between" the genders.

A woman biology researcher from MIT present at Summers talk, apparently an early Snowflake in academia, almost melted hearing Summers say that.

Paglia's common sense about some stuff isn't welcomed in "education".

[Enchante]

True, the spectacle of that female MIT biology prof having a total meltdown at Summers is one of the (many) enduring periods of shame for modern academia. A BIOLOGIST, of all things, unable to tolerate even the mere discussion of possible biological differences. She said she was so upset she could hardly breath and had to leave the room. What a pitiful snowflake.

fwiw, Summers did not even assert that
“biological” differences between men and women were any definite explanation for different outcomes in math and physics achievements... he was merely outlining 3 “hypotheses” for attempted explanations of why there are not more female math and physics profs, especially at the highest levels.

But the mere “hypothesis” could not even be discussed by a so-called scientist at MIT. Un-frickin-believable.

[dynoman]

She should become a republican.