The Hook has a story about a UVa student who has started a local chapter of a new conservative women’s-rights (or anti-rights, or whatever) organization. I like this bit:
They say a liberal orthodoxy in women’s studies classes unfairly paints men as evil and society as an oppressive patriarchy, and ignores differences between the sexes.
“In the women’s studies department, they’re not focusing at all on children,” [Karin] Agness says. “Simply put, they say all women should be CEOs and presidents and lawyers and doctors. They don’t include anything about children and husbands. They’re not talking about how to balance work and family.”
Heh. It’s funny because it’s a lie. (Amber recently got her degree in SWAG from UVa.)
I’m familiar with Karin Agness. She is an incredibly intelligent and driven young lady. NeW was a great endeavour and I suspect it will suceed; I also would bet that Karin’s wil be a name that becomes very well known in the coming years.
And I remember listening to some of the professors try to counter Miss Agness at a public event co-sponsered with the College Republicans last year. Rather than rationally disproving her claims, they acted hostile towards her and the speaker. If it is such a lie, why anger rather than rational debate?
Oh. Good thing you privided a link to the department at UVa. I was thinking my new daughter-in-law had a degree in free stuff.
I can’t speak for that particular event, but there’s nothing to debate in her assertion about the SWAG department. It’s simply a flat-out lie. I can only assume that she’s never taken a SWAG class and doesn’t know anybody who has. (Or, if I want to be charitable, somebody has been lying to her and she’s believed it.) Third-wave feminists rule the roost right now, as they have for some years, and their message is clear: I’ll be a housewife if I want to, and fuck you for trying to tell me otherwise. That’s the message in nearly any general-interest gender studies class that you might take at any college in the nation right now, and for good reason.
Imagine if I asserted that Dean Rick Turner stood up at a meeting last year and said he was going to “start shooting honkies.” Or if I declared that Hurricane Katrina was a huge hoax perpetrated by a vast right-wing conspiracy. Why bother to engage in rational debate — such assertions is so far removed from reality as to clearly make discussion worthless.
Intriguing group. Here’s their website: The Network of enlightened Women
And here’s a Cav Daily op-ed penned by Agness, who it turns out is a 2005 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow.
Bah, forgot the closing quotation mark. Here’s that second link again:
http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=22446&pid=1261