soc.women

"MCP" wrote in message
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> Quietly, without much fanfare, women's studies has disappeared from
> British
> universities.
>
> In the 70s, 80s and 90s, thousands of students across the country took the
> subject.

These females are already old and of no use to us anyway. Men should only
bother with females who entered Uni after 2000. The 18-26 yo range.



>
> Over the last five years, numbers have dropped by 75 per cent and only 35
> students are doing it this year. This summer, the last place offering the
> course, London Metropolitan University, is stopping women's studies
> altogether.
>
> The main feminist struggles have been won, and the more ludicrous ones -
> bra-burning, the insistence that all men are oppressors - have been
> quietly
> dropped.
>
> I know no man under 40 who insists that his wife give up her job and cook
> him
> dinner every night.

No, but that's because it's the females who want to quit their jobs in that
age group and stay home to have babies.


Who's now surprised to have a female boss or a female
> doctor? And there's not much point in studying, say, women's politics
> rather
> than just politics, when a woman has been the most powerful Prime Minister
> ever.
>
> With feminist victories absorbed into mainstream thought, hardly anyone
> calls
> themselves a feminist these days. It's as dated as drenching yourself in
> patchouli or tie-dyeing your jeans.

It was an abberation that will be reversed. Females are not intended by
Nature to be in a position superior to men.



>
> Students have begun to realise, too, that women's studies is useless for
> getting you a job. It's no coincidence that the subject's collapse
> coincided
> with the introduction of tuition fees. The moment you start paying for
> something is the moment you consider whether it's really worthwhile.

I had forgot all about that aspect. Right, no one would actually pay for
those junk courses with their own money.


>
> When commentators ridiculed the course at its height as "Wimmin's Studies"
> the
> feminist movement could rejoice in furious disapproval by their enemies.
> When
> the students themselves started referring to it as "Cosmo Studies" - as
> students at Warwick University used to call it - the subject was doomed.
>
>
> --
> And tell them "If you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to
> fear" -
> from The Secret Policeman's Handbook
>
> All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do
> nothing -
> Edmund Burke
>
> Truth is hate to those who hate the truth - Alexandra
>
> In times of deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George
> Orwell
>
>
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