Boston Globe Signals Importance of Prof. Gilligan and Jane Fonda's MoneyPosted on 07/10/2002 5:54:50 AM PDT by A. Pole
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Those colleges which are attacking boys across the country, according to Prof. Christina Hoff Sommers, are Wellesley, Tufts, the Graduate School of Education at Harvard and the psychiatric department at Harvard Medical School. She quoted a professor at Tufts, "We've deconstructed the old version of manhood, but we've not [yet] constructed a new version." |
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The "research" which shows that boys are favored and are causing serious problems was performed at those institutions. But that research is non-existent or "riddled with errors," Prof. Sommers reports. She says it is totally unsupported in its alarmist, hysterical claims. "Almost none of it has been published in professional peer-reviewed journals. Some of the data are mysteriously missing. Yet the false picture remains and is dutifully passed along."
Two of those she was writing about were Carol Gilligan at Harvard's School of Education and William Pollack at Harvard's McLean Hospital, its psychiatric unit in Belmont.
Since that time, Prof. Gilligan has moved down to New York without ever producing any research for her claims, and Prof. Pollack has gone into hibernation after MassNews raised serious questions about his lack of research.
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Only Wellesley continues on its extreme path without any apparent interruption. But it must have concerns if it feels compelled to produce a fatuous article like it did this month for its alumnae. Dishonest Report Led to Federal Law - and Power Wellesley and Harvard reported dishonestly in the early 1990s that the public schools of the country were "shortchanging girls," according to Prof. Sommers. As a result, Congress passed a new law, the "Gender Equity in Education Act," which categorized girls as an "under-served population," on a par with other discriminated-against minorities.
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They produced a teacher's guide, with money received from the U.S. Department of Education, which, according to Prof. Sommers, "shows teachers how to counteract the subtle influences of tag that encourage aggressiveness: 'Before going outside to play, talk about how students feel when playing a game of tag. Do they like to be chased? Do they like to do the chasing? How does it feel to be tagged out?...Should students become overexcited ... the guide suggests that once back in the classroom the teacher use 'stress relief [exercises] to help the transition from active play to focused work.'"
Recess Is Being Dropped
Incredible as it sounds, even recess is being dropped says Sommers. "Recess - the one time during the school day when boys can legitimately engage in rowdy play - is now under siege and may soon be a thing of the past." It has been totally eliminated in Atlanta, which has built a school without any playground at all. The superintendent there says that many parents still don't understand and ask when they'll be getting the new playground. He replies, "There's not going to be a new playground."
The move to eliminate recess has aroused little notice from parents or anyone else, according to Sommers. "[I]t betrays a shocking indifference to boys' natural proclivities, play preferences, and elemental needs. Girls benefit from recess - but boys absolutely need it....Needless to say, school officials today would never act in a manner equally dismissive of girls' characteristic desires and needs, for they know they would immediately face a storm of justified protests from women advocates. Boys have no such protectors."
Even day-care centers are receiving material from the federal government on how to avoid sex-role "stereotypes."
Millions of Dollars
Millions of dollars have gone to Wellesley, Prof. Gilligan and other feminists in order to change men by making their sons more like girls through public schools across the nation.
Jane Fonda gave $12.5 million to Gilligan in March 2001 to further spread the feminist concepts. Even the Globe reported that many thought it strange that Gilligan was leaving Harvard and going to New York just when many legitimate sources were demanding the research data about her remarkable claims.
Dr. William Pollack, Harvard Medical School, also became famous and wealthy by joining Gilligan's feminist attack on men and boys with his many books.
The belief of the feminists is that no woman will be "free" until we eliminate the institution of marriage and child-rearing. This has been stated many times, but most women still do not know or believe that the feminists are serious about eliminating marriage.
An extensive survey of this subject is available in the MassNews issues of October and November 2000 and the January 2001 issue.
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Boston Globe Signals Importance of Prof. Gilligan and Jane Fonda's Money
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The Boston Globe signaled the importance to feminists of Prof. Gilligan and the money from Jane Fonda when it ran a story on its front page on June 6 that Fonda was "miffed" because her $12.5 million hadn't been spent yet. The story was apparently an Alex Beam column changed to a front page news story because of its unusual importance to them. Earlier this year, the Globe brought Harvard to its knees when it successfully blackmailed the new President of the University, Lawrence H. Summers, into endorsing quotas and affirmative action by publishing nine major pieces about Harvard in two weeks. It is apparently flexing its power again. The newspaper revealed in its June story that, "[Gilligan] has never been popular on the Harvard campus, and the field of gender studies is regarded with suspicion by some academics." |
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It reported last year that observers thought it strange that Gilligan was leaving Harvard and going to New York just when many legitimate sources were demanding to see the research data about her many remarkable claims.
But Harvard's acting Education School Dean has assured the Globe not to worry. "The search is quite alive, and we are pleased at how it is proceeding. We wouldn't take the money if we weren't committed to the idea of a gender center."
Jane Fonda is the woman who became famous by posing naked to attract men when few women would do so.
She now says that if she could, she would change her strip-tease which opened a movie in 1968 when she was 31-years-old. She says she did the tease only as a result of what the Globe called, her "low self-esteem and an ingrained belief that she should please the men in her life."
This caused many to wonder at what age does Fonda take full responsibility for her acts? She wasn't responsible at age 31? Now that she is too old to play a sex-kitten, she blames it all on someone else - men. But didn't she enjoy it when she could still play the role?
What of her traitorous trip to Vietnam when teen-age boys, much younger than she, were dying in order to protect the mothers and children of America? They had been ordered there by the politicians supported by Fonda and her rich father. It was not Eisenhower, Nixon or Reagan that sent them there. Their average age was only 19 as compared to 26 in World War II. It was truly a war of boys. Is she saying that 19-year-old boys are more responsible than she was?
What are we really talking about here, for girls to truly be on par with boys, Wouldn’t Congress need to issue penises to this newly coined minority?
They're dropping recess and just drugging the little boys with Ritalin and sometimes other medications. We know too many parents who have been advised by schools that their boys need medication. Then, if the parent wants to take their boy off the drug, the school reports them to CPS who threatens to take the child away. IT'S CRAZY!!!!!
That's why we will be homeschooling our three sons until they're older and we can afford to put them into a private, all-boys school.
I used to buy into the theory that boys and girls weren't different by nature, but by nurture, until I had three of my own. Turns out, that old theory was a crock.
We reciently heard of a boy in town who's drugged out of his mind on Ritalin attempting to commit suicide 3 times (that we've heard of). He tried to jump off a bridge, had a butcher knife near his heart, and tried to use a bee bee gun to the temples.
He used to be a good kid. He even worked part time for the local dairy. After they started drugging him, he went bazerk.
They use the drugs to silence their testesterone. Only estrogen is politically correct.
It is the duty of every male member to provide a stiff response to this soft science finding. Politics aside, I would be hard pressed to believe how this would keep men from rising up to claim their rightful place in society. Hell they would have to change the etymology and use of the English language.
Terribly insensitive of me, but that's a really funny sentence.
How do you try to jump off a bridge? Did he miss?
Shooting oneself with a BB gun is also funny.
Exactly what they want to do. What I would like to know is how these people can possibly testify (hint) before Congress?
Isn't it interesting that back when boys were encouraged to be boys there were no school shootings, even though boys had actually brought guns to school for centuries?
He was active, i.e., motovated. His energy level was too much trouble for the teacher, I guess. They must have seen it as a bad thing.
He jumped off the bridge and broke his leg. I guess the bridge wasn't high enough.
The bee bee gun was taken away from him by his parents before he used it. It's the idea that he actually tried to shoot his brains out. The kid is something like 13.
I was fortunate to be raised with a brother and two sisters. Dealing with them on a daily basis equipped me to see the feminist lie at the onset of the women's "lip" movement.
Men and women always have been different, and they always will be regardless of the degree of social engineering. Efforts to "improve" God's design are ALWAYS detrimental.
This is not so. Carol Gilligan heads a sizeable bureaucracy that churns out reams of materials that advance this "re-engineer little boys so they'll be more like little girls" doctrine. That in turn is then pumped into the education system by a federal program that spends tens of millions of dollars every year to do it. Gilligan and her friends are extremely dangerous people. They are radical Marxist social engineers who have your son in their care for hours every day... unless you take steps to get him out from under them. Their goal is to "deconstruct" your son and re-construct him as a mental girl. They think they are going to make the world a better place with this act. They are constructing a Feminist Utopia... with your kid. There is no telling what sort of mental malajustments are going on in the heads of little boys who are being "re-engineered" by their teachers to be something that they are not. This is the goofiest experiment on real human beings since Mengele; the only difference is that they messing with the boys' minds instead of their bodies. Do not dismiss Gilligan as some ivory-tower kook. She has real power, real money, and the education system in this country follows her stuff to the letter. If you have a son in public school, get him out. |
I think your plans for home-schooling are great.
The war on little boys is terrible and it is real.
But at Ford Motor Company and many other big corporations there is a war on men, white men of course. As these men support families it is really a war on families as well.
Actually, we know parents who put their child on Ritalin on the school's advice and others who have been told by the school to consider Ritalin. Neither has been threatened with custody because, quite frankly, they're going right along with medicating their sons, who appear to be just intelligent, active young boys who might get smart with the teacher every once in awhile.
The other cases in which custody was threatened I only read about and posted here.
Sorry, I think I simply mistyped my statement.
Like letting children have recess?
I'm blanking out on the title I gave your essay on the alienation of men and women once upon a time. Can you remember?
Otherwise, I'm sure it will come to me about 3:00 am this evening and I can update and bookmark it then. =)
And yes, of course, people who are experts in the field have noted that getting rid of recess causes problems with boys and these problems cause them to recommend ritalin for the kid. We saw it reported here that hot shot heavily funded experts at Harvard University are recommending to educators and some educators are complying to take away recess from elementary schools.
Kids need recess. Period. Forget the girls and boys BS. All kids need recess. As a mother of a very active daughter in elementary school, I find this stereotyping quite dangersous as it could lead to a slippery slope of "separate but equal" education. Next step would be to provide boys with recess but not girls. This is just silly posturing in the gender war using kids as pawns. Disgraceful.
,,, you've got to find a different time zone [LOL!]
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This article leaves the reader with the impression that there are a couple of radically goofy feminist professors at Harvard and Radcliffe who have maybe $12 million from Jane Fonda to play with