Posted on 01/07/2007 6:56:22 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
The "dirty dozen" list of "America's Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses" is out — and Los Angeles-area institutions of higher learning have walked away with one-fourth of the ranked honors (or dishonors). Occidental College, an 1,800-student liberal arts school in Eagle Rock, is the only college on the list to collect not one but two citations for excellence at offering trendy theories of gender, skin color and white-male oppression at the expense of actual academic content.
UCLA didn't fare badly either, with one citation. And believe me, the competition was stiff. The Southern California colleges were competing against such nationally recognized PC heavyweights as Cornell, Amherst, the University of Michigan and, of course, Duke.
The list comes from the Young America's Foundation, a 40-year-old nonprofit funded by conservative individuals and foundations. Its No. 1 slot this year for bizarre class offerings went to Occidental, for a course called "The Phallus."
No, it's not a biology course. It's a survey, offered by Oxy's department of critical theory and social justice, of "feminist and queer takings-on of the phallus." Topics include "the relation between the phallus and the penis, the meaning of the phallus, phallologocentrism, the lesbian phallus, the Jewish phallus, the Latino phallus, and the relation of the phallus and fetishism."
You might wonder how a lesbian can have a phallus, or whether it's possible to say "phallologocentrism" three times without tripping on your tongue, but if so, it's likely that you won't be getting an "A" from Occidental professor Jeffrey Tobin, who is teaching the course this spring semester.
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Punchline, as she says, "Ah, that explains the red Corvette!"
Who's the idiot, the school or the parent paying for this?
I'm quite sure there a a number of people (I have a brother-in-law named Tobias who comes to my mind) whose interest in such a course would be pricked.
Sounds like a hard course.
College and job performance really don't have much of a relationship anyway. Employers have never really cared that much about college records. It used to guarantee minimal skills. Now even that is questionable.
But despite their college educations, (which are little more than schools of vice these days), most graduates go on to lead productive lives.
Phallocracy is another academia nut word. It gets about 1000 hits on Google.
Rush was just talking about this on his show, mf. I think he does a search on you daily.
Careful: in this context, that could make many people wince!
>> This line of reasoning is fellatious. <<
You're a cunning linguist!
>> I met a girl from Occidental that took that course. She said that the American Indian had the largest penis, and the American Jew had the hardest. I introduced my self as Tonto Goldfarb. <<
On a bus to a counsellor for nymphomaniacs:
"I only like cowboys and Jews."
"Slappy Goldstein; nice to meet ya!"
I'm confused: Isn't that Governor Bush's state?
Aw, geez... Thanks to you, it now gets 1001!
The author claims that many church entrances purposely resemble a woman's, um...you know.
A Geoduck!
Can I enroll in the course if I'm not a master debater?
Ah, but it sounds to me like you are.
So, we've got two cunning linguists and a master debater!
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