Resolved, That Women's Studies is Not a Legitimate Academic Discipline" (Yale to Explode Monday)

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[Doctor Raoul]

Christina Hoff Sommers
Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Author of Who Stole Feminism: How Women have Betrayed Women

Monday, January 28, 7:30 PM

"Resolved, That Women's Studies is Not a Legitimate Academic Discipline"

Christina Hoff Sommers is the W.H. Brady Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Chairman of the Independent Women's Forum National Advisory Board. 

She is author of the recently released book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men. She specializes in ethics and contemporary moral theory and has published many scholarly articles in such journals as the Journal of Philosophy and the New England Journal of Medicine. Sommers is editor of a popular textbook in moral philosophy entitled Vice and Virtue In Everyday Life that is used in college ethics courses around the country. Sommers became known to the wider public as the author of Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women. 

She is best known for her writings on two subjects: moral education in the schools, and feminism and American culture. Her articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, USA Today, the National Review, the New Republic, the Weekly Standard, the Chicago Tribune, and the Times Literary Supplement. 

Sommers has appeared on Nightline, ABC's World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, Crossfire, Eye To Eye, 20/20, Inside Politics, Equal Time, Politically Incorrect, and the Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss such issues as the future of feminism and gender bias in the schools. Profiles of her have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the London Times.

Sommers earned her B.A. at New York University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy at Brandeis University in 1979. She has been a professor of philosophy at Clark University since 1980. 

[FreePaul]

Professor Jay Wade, Fordham University.

This has to be a plot by the White Establishment. Only they would make up the lack of black "educators" by finding the most ignorant and offensive people they can find and awarding them doctorates in non studies. Surely no self respecting blacks would support this.

[ohioman]

All lesbians are rather useless.

[a_federalist]

"I woke up dopey. Accidentally hit her in the ribs with my elbow."

When I read an article headlined "Maryland woman crushes husband's skull with computer monitor" I'll know you're no longer with us. Anyone in particular you'd like notified to start your "in memoriam" thread?

[a_federalist]

New Jersey. I have to quit posting before coffee levels have reached optimum.

[PallMal]

Areas of research: Multicultural counseling; racism and mental health; psychology of men; psychopathology. Wade, J.C. (1995). Gender role perceptions and gender role conflicts of middle class African-American men. Publications: Journal of African American Men 1. Wade, J.C. (1994). African-American fathers and sons: Social, historical and psychological considerations.

Junk science, to say the least. He has accomplished nothing intellectually. Even the names of these articles and publications sound like something out of a Monty Python skit.

[anniegetyourgun]

So is the make-up of the N.O.W.

[bimbo]

I have said it before about the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice, and now the Department of Health and Human Services: "The failure to purge the Clintonistas from positions of power in the government will guarantee that Bush is a one-term president." Don't forget: Clinton did a massive purge of the government when he took office in '93 - Travelgate was only the visible tip of the iceberg.

[anniegetyourgun]

Your belief is absolutely correct. It has also betrayed men, any children in the feminist's life, a society as a whole.

[SkyPilot]

The head of our "Womyn's Studies" also was elected Student Gov't President. On a campus of 16,000, I think she received 270 votes (still enough to get her elected). Nobody really cared about the SGA--until she got elected.

She weighed about 380 pounds, and the only thing clothing she ever wore was a HUGE pair of blue jean bib overalls and a XXXXX-L sweatshirt.

Her first act as President was to fire anyone who disagreed with her in the slightest (even though she had no hire/fire authority). She must have taken her cues from the future Hildabeast.

[anniegetyourgun]

Welcome to FR this week and thanks for the link.

[Matchett-PI]

"..And 30% in denial?"

Absolutely! What reality-based mentality, capable of critical thought, would deliberately choose a "women's study" class as an "academic discipline"? LOL!

[Travis McGee]

There is actually a slang acronym LUG or "Lesbian Until Graduation".

It seems college girls are encouraged to "experiment" in school.

(So much for genetic pre-determination.)

[IronJack]

Taking the fight into the belly of the beast.

There are entire social institutions built around the feminist lie. They will not quietly fold their tents and go away. But they have made themselves increasingly irrelevant, even as they become more and more strident in a vain attempt to remain relevant. Having squandered their moral momentum on the likes of Bill Clinton and "potty parity," they are spent, obsolete, hollow relics.

Now is the time to attack.

[Demidog]

Great post. What it shows is that there are people desperate to get at your children and teach them their own agenda. And they won't take no for an answer as long as your children are in public school. If you think that your public school is different, think again. There is some bit of propaganda in some program that is being fed to them. Even a little bit is hard to overcome.

[ppaul]

"Lipstick Lesbians," I believe they are also called.

[ppaul]

#69: You forgot to mention the aroma.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

You should be more careful. Some poor bastard in Maryland has a fractured skull because you can't tell one state flag from another. :)

[Constitution Day]

That's good to know.

I was getting ready to break out my dictionary, TSSYF! 8^)

[weikel]

Did any reasonable person ever believe it was( liberals are of course not reasonable people) now of course female psychology is a legitimate study( and one of the great mysteries of the Universe at least to me and guys like me).

[Travis McGee]

"...my carefree grad school days when all the white heterosexual males were run out of the Conference On Diversity. Seems our presence there fostered a climate of bigotry and hate and was not welcome."

Given the opportunity, these brainwashed zombies would gladly round us up at machine gun point and load us onto trucks as part of the the "Final Solution To White Male Racism".