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Harvard Sets Women-Only Hours for Gym, Complying With Muslim Students' Request
Submitted by anthony on Sun, 2008-03-02 22:01
Story here. Excerpt:
'In response to a request by female Muslim students, Harvard University has created women-only workout hours at one of its campus gyms. The decision has angered some students at the Ivy League university.
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These hours are necessary because there is a segment of the Harvard female population that is not found in gyms, not because they don't want to work out, but because for them working out in a co-ed gym is uncomfortable, awkward or problematic in some way," she told Boston University's Daily Free Press.'
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OMG
I get so sick and tired of women who are too self conscious about their bodies blaming men for not wanting to work out. I don't like people watching me change or work out when I go to the gym either, but I'm not petty enough to use it as an excuse to not go. If these female students have a problem working out with men, why don't they just go to one of those misandric, women only gyms? This is just another fine example of how feminism has the educational institutions by the short hairs.
Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!
Clever feminist or stupid MRA?
But the change has angered students like Nicholas Wells, a junior who called the change a "lose-lose" situation in an opinion article he wrote for the Harvard Crimson newspaper.
"It is an unreasonable policy that is unjust to men and useless to women," he wrote.
"Rather than a genuine attempt to provide comfortable workout hours for women and religious observers who might be uncomfortable working out around men, this policy beats around the bush by offering the least utilized and the most inconvenient hours and gym space," he said. "No one benefits from women’s only hours."
So why this jerk didn't propose to offer women the most convenient hours to make this policy useful for women?
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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism.
Harvard Community College
You're surprised by this? Mr. Reality isn't. Some of the dumbest people in the world are in college.
The educational system today is a joke. It's more about politically correct activism than an actual education.
Harvard is no more than a community college now with an overblown tuition bill. College campuses are diehard feminist boot camps waiting to indoctrinate the masses of American sheeple with a flawed, outdated, pro-female ideology; and during your indoctrination period they actually have the nerve to send you a "bill" for the nonsense they are selling you.
The wealthiest man in the world is a college dropout while tons of indoctrinated, PC students struggle to make ends meet.
The irony..
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Mr. Reality's new story - Wendy's feminist tactics are nothing new.
He goes into a little more
He goes into a little more detail in his opinion piece here
Not only are Harvard’s policies harsh on those who live in the Quad, they are unfair to men. It might be possible to make a case for these hours were they actually advantageous for anyone. However, seeing how the policies are of effectively little use to anyone their only real effect is to discriminate against men who keep regular morning or afternoon workout hours. This seems fundamentally unfair to me.
He still panders, but he makes a case for men a few times.
Mass. Anti-Discrimination Laws
This likely violates Massachusetts law that prohibits places of public accommodations from discriminating against people based on sex (and other protected personal characteristics): Mass. Gen. Laws §272:92A and Mass. Gen. Laws §272:98
Drew G. Faust
Lets not forget Harvard is governed by a feminist.
It seems Harvard needs to implement blatantly sexist policies to somehow make up for the "evil" comments of Larry Sommers.
We all remember Sommers philosophy on male superiority in regards to math and science. Something that has been proven time and time again.
Its fascinating that a comment may be factually evident yet if its deemed politically incorrect that truth means nothing.
Why does Radcliffe still exist? It seems Harvard is becoming a women's college.
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[This post was written by an MRA who doesn't hate women.]
You Have a Point, Alrava
One of us should write that guy, and let him know that these policies violate Massachusetts law. It probably won't make a difference, tho. As we've all seen time and time again, those who lack a Y chromosome seem to have no trouble defecating all over civil rights and laws, and getting away with it, to boot.
Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!