Posted on 05/10/2002 8:48:52 AM PDT by xsysmgr
Now this extends into technical fields.
Note to hiring managers: Bring on the white males to the limit you think you can get away with it. Because minorities got into the programs, and got the grades, because of their status.
Note the prominent brow ridge.
All anti-discrimination laws sound reasonable, until they are implemented.
Absolutely. The easiest way to see this is to look at intramural sports. There are no scholarships at stake, nothing but competition. There is FAR more male participation than female.
That said, I would make another point. While Title IX reflects the extreme Egalitarian lunacy that underpins much of what the Federal Government has done on the domestic scene since the 1950s, it may eventually have one salutary effect: That is if it causes schools to reexamine the price of accepting Federal Funds, and induces them to ask the obvious question, "Why should the Federal Government, which has very clearly assigned duties in the Constitution, be involved in education, which is not one of those duties?"
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You have to remember that "gender equity" is a bunch of baloney even to those who claim to be its strongest supporters. As Thomas Sowell once said about Marxism, it will only survive in places where success isn't necessary. A person who is admitted into a medical school under an affirmative action program, and who passes his medical boards because of some kind of "race-norming" scoring system, will never become a renowned cancer specialist at Sloan-Kettering or a cardiac specialist at the Cleveland Clinic. He might become a witch doctor in a third-rate inner-city clinic, but then that's what he probably would have been doing even if he didn't go to medical school.
I think it was "60 Minutes" that did a report on the New York City Fire Department's "gender-norming" a few years ago. I don't know which was more comical, the sight of a 5'-1", 105 pound woman trying to drag a 200-pound dummy down a set of stairs, or the host of the show trying to keep a straight face while Gloria Steinem tried to defend the practice.
After September 11th, I never heard that b!tch complain that half of the firefighters killed in the WTC should have been women.
Title IX isn't simply used to cull men's sports activities. It is also responsible for the feminization of military schools (i.e. VMI) and the outright elimination of all-male education institutions, while claiming victim's rights to maintain all-girl schools and programs. Before the Bush administration recently redirected policies, Title IX was being scrutinized as a way to dumb down science and math curriculum so that the proportion of male college students could be further reduced.
And the 60% vs. 40% disparity in female college entrollment wasn't pulled from the air - it's typical across the nation. Title IX, an increasingly PC feminist curricullum and a social environment generally hostile to all things traditionally male have lead to this situation. Of course, it would never occur to the feminazi fascists to apply their own Title IX medicine to that 60/40 enrollment disparity.
"Gender-norming" in schools does not have the far-reaching impact that most people seem to think. I have always said that no more than 10% of the college students in this country are truly capable of handling real college-level material, and what "gender-norming" usually does is simply re-shuffle the remaining 90%, who are largely irrelevant anyway in a professional sense.
In my corner of suburbia, there was a huge ACLU lawsuit when the municipality installed lights at the local softball field that was used by the Little League and local men's teams. The field was virtually packed with teams and spectators five nights a week from April through September. The problem? Lights hadn't yet been planned for the seldom used girls field across the street. And, no, the offer to bring the girls' games to the mens' field was not accepted - they sued the local government into lighting both fields.
Tell that to the HR departments in large corporations that have been cowed by these "irrelevants" into dumbing down the workplace. Miscreants, sociopaths and dullards by the score hide their incompetence or destructive behavior behind EEOC, gender discrimination, and "childcare issues." It's why I quit management and resumed an engineering career. People break the rules of common sense and courtesy every day. But nobody - and I mean nobody - has the power to break the laws of physics.
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