"Why Would Anyone Protest Against the Women's Studies Program at Columbia?"

Submitted by Matt on Thu, 2010-03-25 19:08

Article here. I'd say we could contribute to the discussion in the comments section. Excerpt:

'On the morning of April 8th the Federal Court in New York City will hear the oral argument in a Federal suits against the Women's Studies Program at Columbia University.

The lawsuit claims that students, male and female, as well as the nation, are being harmed by the misapplication of monies under Title IX. which states that: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance..." (Title Nine is most commonly evoked to ensure equal opportunities for girls and women in high school and college athletics but is obviously being used here to challenge the use of funds for women's education) There is a demonstration being planned to support this lawsuit and the preceding day there will be a special seminar and a webinar at Wagner College in support of this issue.

At first glance this lawsuit seems to be ridiculous. We all know that programs such as this one have been part of social change which has brought well deserved equality to women from the early suffrage movement to where we have seen a viable woman candidate for President of the United States. Certainly in education we have seen the number of women undergraduates in the United States outnumber men.
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Wow I did not realize that Obama and his administration would continue ignoring men's health to women's and worse yet help to exasperate them. Does he not know of the large chunk of male victims of DV or is he just bought by feminists? Aside from just being fair, I thought Obama would recognize the declining state of men. I suppose I was reading far too much into his statement that autism (effecting more boys than girls) is one of America's top three Heath crisis and thinking that Obama wasn't going to neglect men's health.

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Submitted by fondueguy on Fri, 2010-03-26 01:08

despite his stated biases.

I still find it interesting that Affirmative Action Laws regarding race have been attacked and challenged with such veracity, yet when those same laws apply to gender, there is generally a hands off attitude regarding them.

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Submitted by moebius22 on Fri, 2010-03-26 01:27

I meant ferocity

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Submitted by moebius22 on Fri, 2010-03-26 01:28

Women Studies is the force multiplier that expanded feminist membership more than a thousand-fold. No, that is not hyperbole. And if you add in the people who did not become full-fledged man-haters but were simply influenced by Women Studies--for instance, hundreds of thousands of teachers--the multiplier becomes even larger.

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Submitted by Hunchback on Fri, 2010-03-26 13:19

Does he not know of the large chunk of male victims of DV or is he just bought by feminists?

Well of course! Obama is not only a democrat but a feminist as well. And he is one of many emasculated politicians to boot.

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Submitted by canaryguy on Fri, 2010-03-26 13:24

"Why Would Anyone Protest Against the Women's Studies Program at Columbia?"

Because women's studies is evil, duh!

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Submitted by MichaelClaymore on Fri, 2010-03-26 19:57