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[JerryBaumchen 1,452]

Hi folks,

Hopefully, this will teach this dufus to keep his mouth shut.  Talk about living in the Dark Ages:

Sexist Professor's Viral Speech Prompts Student To Raise Over $70K For Women's Scholarship (ibtimes.com)

Jerry Baumchen

[wolfriverjoe 1,523]

Hi Jerry,

It doesn't look like he's learned his lesson.
What a fucking idiot.

[Phil1111 1,156]

More GOP deep state infiltration into liberal arts exposed.

[brenthutch 444]

11 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

More GOP deep state infiltration into liberal arts exposed.

Sounds more like Obama’s Secretary of the Treasury, Larry Summers.

“Summers does in fact suggest that one reason there are relatively few women in top positions in science may be "issues of intrinsic aptitude.”

 

[billvon 3,095]

15 hours ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi folks,

Hopefully, this will teach this dufus to keep his mouth shut.  Talk about living in the Dark Ages:

Sexist Professor's Viral Speech Prompts Student To Raise Over $70K For Women's Scholarship (ibtimes.com)

Jerry Baumchen

From that guy:

"Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering, but rather to recruit and demand more of men to become engineers. Ditto for [medical] school and the law and every trade. Efforts should be redoubled to encourage more men to enter the medical field, space exploration, mining endeavors and every other high-end and even low-end profession."

Sounds like another "I'm not sexist at all!" woke-is-a-joke type.  And he really isn't sexist.  He encourages women to do women's jobs (secretaries, housewives, sewing) and men to do men's jobs (astronauts, engineers, doctors.)  He is as unbiased as they come.

There is a long history of these not-sexist and not-racist people out there.  All the men who pushed for separate women's colleges and men's colleges, so each one had their own schools, which is as un-sexist as one can be.  All the whites who pushed for miscegenation laws.  Those laws allowed blacks to marry blacks and whites to marry whites, which is perfectly 100% NOT RACIST.  Everyone has the same rights.

Remember Rosa Parks?  She was objecting to a perfectly NOT RACIST law that gave each race their own section of the bus.  What could be more fair or more equal than to have your very own section of the bus?

Liberals these days.  Geez.

[wmw999 2,568]

The one place where I'm torn is single-sex colleges. Because some kids are, in fact, helped by not competing with members of the opposite sex. Gender politics can be a distraction, both to boys and girls. They have to learn to deal with it at some time,

I'm in an area with two single-sex colleges nearby (both women's schools). They are part of a consortium that shares classes with three other schools, so there is plenty of opportunity to mingle and take the classes. Until the last 20-30 years, women's colleges were nearly always "lesser" than the men's one; the connections made at the top-tier men's schools were with economic and political power, the ones made at top-tier women's schools were with social power, and by virtue of securing a good marriage.

That's changing.

I know that I would never have considered a single-sex college when I was looking. I was an excellent match for where I went, but a piece of me wonders if I would have been less automatically deferential (as girls are brought up to be) if I had gone to a women's college. Where I had just as much assumed opportunity for power, and no difference because of my gender.

Wendy P.

[kallend 2,131]

"Scott Yenor, a professor of political philosophy". . . . . 

Some so-called "disciplines" need to be eradicated - IMVHO.

[JerryBaumchen 1,452]

1 hour ago, wmw999 said:

The one place where I'm torn is single-sex colleges. Because some kids are, in fact, helped by not competing with members of the opposite sex. Gender politics can be a distraction, both to boys and girls. They have to learn to deal with it at some time,

I'm in an area with two single-sex colleges nearby (both women's schools). They are part of a consortium that shares classes with three other schools, so there is plenty of opportunity to mingle and take the classes. Until the last 20-30 years, women's colleges were nearly always "lesser" than the men's one; the connections made at the top-tier men's schools were with economic and political power, the ones made at top-tier women's schools were with social power, and by virtue of securing a good marriage.

That's changing.

I know that I would never have considered a single-sex college when I was looking. I was an excellent match for where I went, but a piece of me wonders if I would have been less automatically deferential (as girls are brought up to be) if I had gone to a women's college. Where I had just as much assumed opportunity for power, and no difference because of my gender.

Wendy P.

Hi Wendy,

Re:  Gender politics can be a distraction

Are you sure that should not be hormonal politics?

Jerry Baumchen

[wmw999 2,568]

5 minutes ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Are you sure that should not be hormonal politics?

Some of that, some of gender politics. When I took tae kwon do as an adult, I was in a class with mostly teenager boys (they were my size). It was just about impossible to spar with them, simply because I was an older woman. I was in my mid-30’s, so not real breakable yet. That kind of gender politics; the kind where men are more free to interrupt women than vice versa, women are more concerned with not being a bitch than men are, but men also will “protect” women, sometimes to their own detriment

Wendy P. 

[kallend 2,131]

I attended an all boys school from age 11 to 18, because that's how all schools were in the UK back then.

In retrospect I think it helpful not to have had  the distraction of girls in the classroom while going through puberty, and I believe my female friends of the same vintage would agree that the complementary effect helped them.

I suspect it significantly lengthened the duration of my virginity, however.

[BIGUN 1,458]

4 hours ago, kallend said:

I suspect it significantly lengthened the duration of my virginity, however.

No. John. You were an ugly skinny kid. 

[kallend 2,131]

2 hours ago, BIGUN said:

No. John. You were an ugly skinny kid. 

No doubt I still am,  but it hasn't had a negative effect since my school days.