Posted on 08/17/2003 11:02:43 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:40:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A course called "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation," scheduled this fall, has reignited a culture war at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
A family-values lobbyist is leading public opposition to the self-proclaimed "uncompromising political militancy" of the professor who teaches "lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Their "How to be Homosexual" class will only teach women this...
That's easy, just drop your pants and bend over.
Ben Dover
Or "tolerance" perhaps?
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A simple freepmail is all it takes to subscribe or unsubscribe from my homosexual agenda ping list.
I always clearly refer to them as such in public. I NEVER use the PC name they prefer, because I clearly understand, that words mean something.
Good job but you're not quite right yet. There is NO SUCH THING as a homosexual. There are only people who practice homosexual behavior.
All of us are heterosexual. Some are mentally damaged or diseased and are perverting their sexuality by practicing homosexual behavior.
If you call them 'homosexuals' then you give some small measure of legitimacy to their claim that that's just the way they are.
As another poster mentioned earlier, Same-sex Attraction Disorder (SAD) is both a descriptive and technically accurate label for them. They are SAD sufferers or SADs. and their chosen lifestyle keeps them that way.
From Mt. Holyoke College (women only)
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WS 333 (04)
Beyond Nature/Culture: Feminist, Queer
Monday 1:00-3:50 p.m.
K. Barad
In this course, we examine scientific discourses on the body as well as feminist, queer, and antiracist approahes, interventions, and responses. Drawing on the literatures from cultural studies of science, technology, and medicine, gay and lesbian and queer studies, the history of science and medicine, anthropology, biology, and feminist theory, we will consider such topics as: scientific constructions of raced-sexed-gendered bodies, scientific constructions of (homo)sexualities, mainstream and counter-discourses concerning hermaphrodism and intersexuality, transgendered bodies, cyborg bodies, scientific constructions of disease, disabilities, and abnormalities, reproductive technologies, medical ethics, AIDS, lesbian health issues, and environmental racism.
WS 333 (05)
Feminist and Queer Theory
Tuesday 1:00-3:50 p.m.
K. Barad
Questions of power, agency, structure, materiality, bodies, subjectivities, and discursive practices have been central to both feminist and queer theories. In this course, we will focus on these issues, exploring in particular the tensions among poststructuralist, Marxist, and materialist approaches. In analyzing contemporary theories of gender and sexuality, we will pay particular attention to issues of race, class, ethnicity, nationality, and globalization. Key problematics include: the nature and operation of power, the relationship between materiality and discourse, and the relationship between theory and practice. Theorists to be discussed include Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Rosemary Hennessey, Jacqui Alexander, Leela Fernandex, Elizabeth Grosz, John E'Emilio, Monique Wittig, Gayatri Spivak, Steve Seidman, Stuart Hall, and Gayle Rubin.
And from Smith College, Northampton (where your daughter is almost guaranteed to become a lesbian if she goes there):
Concentration in the Women's Studies Major .
Queer Studies
Go to Women of Color Concentration
Requirements in the Major
Main Course Page
Queer Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field whose goal is to analyze antinormative sexual identities, performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender. Queer studies comes out of a critique of identity politics. It rejects essentialized conceptualization[s] of sexuality, gender, and sexual identity as innate or fixed. It represents a deconstruction of hegemonic conceptions of sexual and gender categories within straight, gay and lesbian communities. In queer studies, the interpretation, enactment, and destabilizing of sexual identities is linked to that of gender categories. The queer studies concentration's home in women's studies makes explicit these links between theories of gender and sexuality.
In the queer studies concentration students are encouraged to consider the historical and theoretical foundations of queer studies as well as the potential consequences (epistemological and political) of a queer studies critique. This might include attention to the connections between gay and lesbian studies and queer studies, feminist studies and queer studies and the implications of a queer studies critique for other disciplines.
Possible areas of focus include: the history of sexuality, social movements, politics, anthropology, literature, theater, art, film, science and sexology, public policy, law, ethnic studies, music, demography, geography, media analysis, philosophy, etc.
Courses in the Queer Studies Concentration (check current catalog to determine if course if offered this academic year)
WST 100 Issues in Queer Studies (2 and 4 credit)
WST 220 Queer Theories: Borders, Limits, and Margins
WST 300 Special Topics in Women’s Studies: The Politics of Sexual Representation
WST 310 Queer Globalizations, Local Homosexualities: Transnational Formations
WST 315 Sexual Histories, Lesbian Stories (has also been special topic in WST 300)
WST 312 Queer Resistances: Identities, Communities, and Social Movements (has also been special topic in WST 300)
AAS 366 Contemporary Topics in Afro-American Studies: Readings in Black and Queer
GOV 269 Politics of Gender and Sexuality
GOV 367 Seminar in Political Theory: Queer Theory
PSY 268 Lesbian Identity and Experience
SOC 229 Sex and Gender in American Society
THE 316 Contemporary Canadian Drama
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I wonder how "Women's Studies" became subverted (perverted?) into "Queer studies?" The implication (likely true at Smith) is that to be a good woman, you have to be queer. And this is a MAJOR!! The only job for a major in this stuff is at colleges, indoctrinating other women into your cause!
Sexist.
I went to U of M. Went in a conservative and came out a conservative. It's not that bad, especially in the Greek system. You will discover that most students don't give a darn about politics and don't pay attention to the news, it's the townies that do all the protesting.
Mr. Halperin wrote that "lesbian and gay studies scholars" were leaders in lobbying universities and governments "to adopt and enforce anti-discrimination policies, to recognize same-sex couples, to oppose the U.S. military's anti-gay policy, to suspend professional activities in states that criminalize gay sex or limit access to abortion, and to intervene on behalf of human rights for lesbians, bisexuals and gay men at the local and national levels."
In their own words. And some libertarians and others like to say it's not an agenda.
Serial killers have mostly been homosexuals and some even ate their heart's desire. Jeffrey Dahmer used to freeze some body parts for enjoying later.
Maybe you can do some Freeping - promote FR among the college students, do some "converting" and "recruiting" of your own. They always say college students like to rebel, right? Well, rebel against the sodomites and deviants! I bet there are quite a few other students like you that are disgusted with this crap and would gain strength from finding others of like mind.<pMaybe you can make a cool cult out of FR reading college students.
I was there in the early 60's and everything was relatively normal. Nothing like an evening at the now defunct Pretzel Bell.
What's happened to "higher" education in the past thirty years is nothing short of criminal PC crap.
PhDs and professorships mean absolutely nothing anymore. Most that I have dealt with are dumb as rocks.
One large corporation had hired three India-Indian physicists and, after reading a recent article posted on FR about cheating in India univsrsities, I now understand why I thought them exceeding ignorant.
Well, if you want to learn how to swim, you need to jump into the pool. You can get a good education at Ann Arbor. ;-)
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