Posted on 04/10/2005 3:59:28 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Academia needs to be fumigated. All little Ward Churchills must be exposed and FIRED!
What I could never really fathom is how a lot of women who consider themselves strong feminsists (like Nancy over here, of people I have encountered in my life), and yet wilt and recoil as a response to just a few spoken words.
I recall that another progressive woman at the Larry Summers event talked about how she 'literally' got sick to her stomach. Wow, that's one tough woman, I'd say!
You've come a long way, baby.
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I couldn't agree more. Academia is an abysmal mess, an unbelievable mess.
But how are you going to fix it when they are all turning out clones of themselves from graduate programs, and hiring clones of themselves as new colleagues?
I've seen departments put into receivership they were so lousy, and the committees brought in to do the hiring for them STILL couldn't manage to hire anyone decent. That happened at Harvard, it happened at Columbia, it happened at Duke after Stanley Fish left and the new guys made things even worse. I don't see this changing any time soon.
LOL.....I remember "Sticks and Stones will Break my Bones, but Words will NEVER hurt me.." As a young girl my mother taught me that.....and I took it to heart and MIND! SHEESH....Academia is full of WIMPY WOMEN!
Yeah, she should have just decked him - lol.
My mother taught me the same thing as a young girl, and I grew to be the man I am today!
Ok, yall, JUST JOKING!!! =P
It's hard to reconcile - how can modern women, who trumpet their toughness and skill, collapse into a heap of insecurity, fear, and exagerated sensitivity, etc if they overhear an off-color joke or a contrioversial statement.
Ultimately, I don't consider men or women who react that way (the 'terminally offended crowd' as I call them) as notably tough at all.
You don't get it.
It is an act - to pretend that what has been said is so disgusting it has turned the person's stomach - thus no polite person would think it polite to discuss the topic - and thus no discussion.
It is done for the purely passive aggressive reason that the person cannot support a rational discussion of the topic, so they throw the smoke screen of the irrational response.
Diva's Husband
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You got that right - just how 'tough' are a generation of men and women who go running to the human resources department, or heaven forbid, a lawyer at the local mall, at the slighest imagined offense?
Whacked out!
Ahhh... You might be looking at a big part of the fix, right at this very moment.
(steely)
I'm sorry I wasn't clear - I do get it and agree with you. Often when I encounter this in real-life I nicely (but pointedly) ask about the person getting nauseated, light-headed, or otherwise physically repulsed.
After some coaxing I get them to admit that they didn't literally get ill. I do it for fun!
In any case, their hypersensitivity is clearly incongruent with their rhetoric about being tough. Things usually get hot when I get into that! ;-)
It's all one big theatrical act........kind of like Killery's histrionic claim of a "vast right wing conspiracy" being waged by Republicans against Bill The Sexual Predator. They "faint" only when someone in a position of authority "strays over the line." That's the liberal line, you understand. When did we ever see conservative women passing out, feeling "literally sick to their stomachs" at a remark made by - say - Al Franken?
Have we ever seen Kay Bailey Hutchison, or Libby Dole in need of smelling salts while enduring a speech by Killery? Barbar Boxer, Pelosi?........or Teddy Kennedy?
It's just an act and a pretense, to gain attention to a "cause" which is so feeble that they can't support or defend it with persuasive, rational arguments.
It's the same as their "selective outrage." Same exact ploy.
Why weren't all of these frail feminazis fainting by the hundreds, all across America, while one of their gender was slowly dying of starvation and dehydration???!!...(and while George "darth veder" Felos was announcing to the world how utterly "beautiful" a starving, dehydrating woman can be?!)
Well that's exactly what it is - it's insincere and shouldn't be given the credibility it has.
But it is the liberal main stream media who have made this a "story." Lame and frivolous as it actually is, it's red meat for them.
Men are baling out of academia. I know two Asian families whose #1 sons are opting for first class technical schools as opposed to college. A few years ago any track except college would have been unacceptable. I think these smart, hard working folks do a lot more hard thinking about the future than your ordinary Joe/Jane Hooplehead and have adjusted their priorities accordingly.
Do you mean places like WPI or Renseleer or do you mean the local two year techs in everyone's town?
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