:: The Bitch Girls ::

:: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 ::

Liberal Arts Education So I'm at work reading Kim du Toit's Daily Rant today when I see this post about universities and liberal arts education.

And even in the so-called "liberal arts" schools, the Post-Modern school of thought, which has come to dominate academic circles, has trashed all our experience of the human condition, by rejecting the past as "irrelevant" (note the sneer inherent in the "dead White males" phrase).

I took a class dedicated to the "dead white men." There was a student in the course from a neighboring institution that, according to her, doesn't teach a single class that spends more than one session on these guys. That's scary. The dead white guys are part of history as well. Just because she felt they were part of the patriarchy or whatever bullshit doesn't mean you can pretend they didn't exist. I shouldn't be so hard on her. She did come to the class so she could learn about them. BUT, the story takes an interesting turn...

So a women's studies major walks into a bar... Just kidding. Anyway, so the chick is a WS major. She comes to the first class explaining that she wants to explore the writings of the dead white men. (Her words, not mine.) She pauses with a look on her face that says something big is coming up. Or at least she's trying to look like she's thinking. What comes out, but this bullshit. "I'm critical of myself in this class. I just have to resolve that while I want to learn about the dead white men, reason is inherently masculine. I don't want to give into the oppression." My jaw hit the ground. Immediately my hand shot into the air. When the professor turned to me, I said something about being critical of bullshit feminism that says things like "reason is inherently masculine." I refused to accept that women are the blubbering, emotional, PMSing brats that many WS departments want to perpetuate. Reason is not inherently masculine. What does that leave women as, unreasonable? I get mad even remembering that day. At least my college still has one class dedicated to the boys.

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:: Bitter 10:49 AM [+] ::
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