UConn: Taking A Look At Men's Studies

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2007-09-29 21:06

Story here. Excerpt:

'Gouws' interest in "men's studies," as he described the field, developed during his stint at graduate school. The classroom environment, said Gouws, sometimes enabled bigotry under the guise of feminism with nasty consequences. During a class on gender sociology, the instructor presented a paper describing a female 'wild zone' that represented an area of thinking that women alone could experience due purely to their sex.
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The importance of male-positive masculinities cannot be understated, said Gouws. "The manhood question" - how men define themselves in relation to their gender - is an essential one, and it deserves the same attention that "the woman question" has received. And since he's not retiring just yet, Gouws and his students will have plenty of time to delve further.'

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This anti-male cultural hysteria is weeding out the true academics from the eunech type (run with the herd at all costs to the truth)...academics!!

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Submitted by scottkirk on Sun, 2007-09-30 04:00

"... the instructor presented a paper describing a female 'wild zone' that represented an area of thinking that women alone could experience due purely to their sex."

Duh?

It's called SHOPPING!

All it takes to incite an instant sow stampede in the "wild zone" is a 70% OFF SALE!

Though it's debatable whether this exlusively female mode of hysteria constitutes "thinking."

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Submitted by Roy on Sun, 2007-09-30 13:25

My cynical take on weeding out true academics is this: how else would you know they were any good? Look at some of the most mistreated academics out there--even those working in disciplines that aren't politicized. If academia didn't let go of its innovative thinkers, there would be no mechanism for detecting originality.

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Submitted by OpEd on Sun, 2007-09-30 22:26