Does Feminism Control The Bush Administration?

Eagle Forum ^ | Apr. 19, 2006 | Phyllis Schlafly

[ncountylee]

Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights Stephanie Monroe has announced that the Bush Administration is investigating universities that have fewer women in science and math programs than feminists would like. We are more than five years into the Bush presidency, but it appears that Bill Clinton's feminist policies are still in force.

Is President George W. Bush a feminist, or is he just a typical gentleman who is intimidated by feminists and unable to cope with their unreasonable demands, tantrums and rudeness? When it comes to public policy and personnel appointments, the result is the same.

The gender police have already ruined college sports for many men, forcing the senseless elimination of 171 wrestling teams to reduce the overall proportion of men to women on college athletic teams. Fresh from that attack on masculinity, the new target is math and science departments.

Universities know all too well how this game is played and have every reason to fear the worst. Just one feminist lawsuit can have a devastating effect on most universities, both financially and in adverse publicity.

An internal Title IX regulation invented by Carter and Clinton administration feminists established the "proportionality" of men and women enrolled in a college as the bean-counting goal for the proportion of men and women on sports teams. If the percentage of men on sports teams is too high, then the college can expect to be sued for alleged gender discrimination, even though men are far more interested in sports than women.

If the college loses, it must pay the feminist lawyers' attorney's fees. This encourages lawsuits and has resulted in million-dollar paydays at the expense of schools that rely on donations to stay afloat.

The Bush Administration is getting ready to apply this same mindless mentality to math and science departments,

[Vision]

Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights Stephanie Monroe has announced that the Bush Administration is investigating universities that have fewer women in science and math programs than feminists would like

I can't believe it:D

[MNJohnnie]

Partial Birth Abortion ban. You lose Feminazis. Nice try Democrats.

[ncountylee]

Bush let far too many Clintonistas keep their positions and as a result, democrat values continue to be shoved down our throats.

[Daytyn71]

"The feminists expect that their whining and outbursts about alleged discrimination will intimidate men into giving them preferential treatment. The feminists want to rig the system so they will not have to compete with men, but will compete only with other women for a quota of scholarship slots, resources and professorships."

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Aint that the truth.

[Bahbah]

Assistant Education Secretary for Civil Rights

There should be no such position. In fact, there should not be a Department of Education at all.

[OldFriend]

Yes, no doubt about it. President Bush stays up nights worrying about how many women are teaching science and math courses at our colleges and universities.

/s/

[familyop]

...too many anti-family social programs, higher costs for defense and business, and too many fatherless children will cost the next generation much more. But it keeps people who are superior to us from having much new business competition and keeps the labor pool more full.

[Spirited]

Thanks, Phyllis.

The Bushes qualify for feminists so far as their acts are concerned. Stupidity is often the provence of the GOP.

[ConservativeDude]

I wonder what it would take to elect a conservative President, who will only appoint only conservatives to the cabinet, and have those cabinet secretaries appoint only conservatives to the underling positions.

Obviously it is going to take more than we have put forth so far. Sigh.

[dmz]

I wonder what it would take to elect a conservative President, who will only appoint only conservatives to the cabinet, and have those cabinet secretaries appoint only conservatives to the underling positions.
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I'm thinking you'd have to knock off approx. 46.5% of the US population.

[doc30]

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[doc30]

This is utterly insane. Math and sciences are the only area in academia where student performance is measured quantitatively. Either you get the right answer or you don't. There is nothing keeping women out of these programs. These programs are so small in many universitiea and colleges that they would love to bring in more students, regardless of sex. As a matter of fact, a lot of the science geeks would LOVE to have more women in their classes.

The plain fact is that not many people in general are interested in the hard sciences and there is a need for technically competent people. Femisnists are just looking for more places to sprout their political weeds.

[randog]

There was a big push back in the dotcom daze to get more women interested in engineering. It worked well enough to get them into the engineering schools and programs, but the "science barrier" ended it shortly after that for a lot of them.

[Right Wing Professor]

Meanwhile, here at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, we identified upwards of 50 minorities and women who had been hired without open searches on the basis of race and sex. We gave the Justice Department the names, the fields, and documents from the university proving it had been done. Attorney General Gonzales discontinued the investigation for political reasons.

[joesnuffy]

He seems to be pursuing the border issue with an equal amount of enthusiasm...and competence.

[Right Wing Professor]

It turns out that Phyllis is behind the curve.

So on March 29--four days after Monroe's announcement appeared in National Journal--the White House quietly forced a retraction. On Department of Education letterhead, a statement was released over Monroe's signature promising that "the Department of Education is not expanding Title IX enforcement beyond its regular activities to combat unlawful discrimination. Further, the Department is not implementing any quota system or new enforcement program to advance study opportunities in math and science." And then Monroe promptly went on "travel," according to an Education Department spokesman, and has since been unavailable for interviews.

[familyop]

"There was a big push back in the dotcom daze to get more women interested in engineering. It worked well enough to get them into the engineering schools and programs, but the "science barrier" ended it shortly after that for a lot of them."

Yes, I kept track of that trend and know where many of them went. Quite a few of them were relegated to being overpaid administrators, spokespersons and web page writers for labs and other tech.-related offices. Those who won't do the work can still be bosses. And they can vent their ire by concentrating on hiring men from Arab and other Asian or South American countries to do the work.

We need new competition in business, IMO.

[Right Wing Professor]

He seems to be pursuing the border issue with an equal amount of enthusiasm...and competence.

In fact, if I list all the reasons I voted for Bush, and all the issues he's let me down on, they're pretty much the same list!

[Right Wing Professor]

Stephanie Monroe bio