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WSU offering class on ‘social construction’ of Western Science
Campus Reform ^ | April 4, 2018 | Toni Airaksinen

Posted on 04/04/2018 7:20:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Washington State University is currently offering a class on how Western science is impacted by “socially constructed” categories such as gender, sexuality, and nationality.

“Women’s Studies 220: Gender, Culture, and Science,” is a sophomore-level class taught this semester by Jenifer Barclay, an assistant professor in the school’s Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies.

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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: college
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Quoting feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir, Barclay also suggests that knowledge is a patriarchal venture, writing that “representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the truth.”

Then jump off the clock tower at Bryan Hall and see if gravity is true.

1 posted on 04/04/2018 7:20:06 AM PDT by C19fan
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Make sure none of these students are allowed to design a bridge.


2 posted on 04/04/2018 7:21:09 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

We need a new protected group called Gun Owners(GO). See how they like that at the next Diversity event ...


3 posted on 04/04/2018 7:26:30 AM PDT by 11th_VA
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Who do ze think ze are anyway?


4 posted on 04/04/2018 7:29:40 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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To: C19fan

Math & physics are either viable or they’re not. Feminizing them is not going to make an angstrom of difference.

God, the university has become one stupid institution.


5 posted on 04/04/2018 7:33:00 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: C19fan
Wonder how many job openings there are in this field.

6 posted on 04/04/2018 7:34:51 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: C19fan
The Left is fundamentally opposed to both the concept of Truth and the concept of Reality.


7 posted on 04/04/2018 7:34:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I'm still somewhat onboard but very disappointed. Not so much "Winning" lately.)
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To: C19fan

“Then jump off the clock tower at Bryan Hall and see if gravity is true.”

This. C’mon - live the courage of your convictions. No? I am depressed.


8 posted on 04/04/2018 7:39:02 AM PDT by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: C19fan

Sexuality is “socially constructed”? But gay activists have insisted for years they are born that way. Sheesh, people, make up your minds...


9 posted on 04/04/2018 7:46:16 AM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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Tired of all the libtard progressive social inequality etc. sh*t being espoused at the academic level. These arseholes going to make themselves utterly irrelevant if they keep pursuing this sh*t. BTW, university programs are becoming more and more catered to what is ‘hot’ rather than actual what is required for a specific major, etc. All about the $$$$$. None of this social sh*t will get those graduating students jobs....


10 posted on 04/04/2018 7:50:56 AM PDT by cranked
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To: C19fan

Amen to that!


11 posted on 04/04/2018 7:52:55 AM PDT by rdl6989
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Right, parents, step right up and pay thousands of dollars so your kids can be fed this useless bull$hit. Better to have them learn a trade.


12 posted on 04/04/2018 8:14:55 AM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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This. I’ll gladly hire a girl plumber who knows she’s a girl, likes boys, and isn’t afraid to betray the Vaginocracy by asking for help.


13 posted on 04/04/2018 8:44:03 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: beethovenfan

Take a course from a teacher who got her degree from a second rate institution who teaches at a second rate cow college. Here is a little of her background:

Jenifer L. Barclay received her Ph.D. in history (2011) from Michigan State University, spending two years as a pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies (2009–2011). She also held a postdoctoral fellowship (2011–12) in African American studies at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Barclay is an associate editor for Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, and her current book project, The Mark of Slavery: The Stigma of Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America, deals with both the lived experiences of enslaved people with disabilities as well as the metaphorical, ontological links that antebellum Americans forged between race, gender, and disability as a way to shore up tenuous racial categories and shifting gender relations in the turbulent decades leading up to the Civil War. Her book is under contract with the University of Illinois Press and will appear in the cutting-edge book series Disability Histories.


14 posted on 04/04/2018 8:53:02 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: 11th_VA

Not enough letters. We should create the GOBCBD coalition (Gun Owners, Bible Clingers, and Basket of Deplorables).


15 posted on 04/04/2018 11:23:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Barclay also suggests that knowledge is a patriarchal venture,

So she wants women to stay uneducated... Interesting.

16 posted on 04/04/2018 11:44:58 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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