Daily Gut: Tenure
by Greg GutfeldSo over at Depaul University – allegedly a college – students and faculty are up in hairy arms over the denial of tenure to Melissa Bradshaw, a professor of “women’s and gender studies.” In case you don’t know what tenure is, it’s a guaranteed lifetime job. And in case you don’t know what “women’s and gender studies” are, join the club – neither do I.
And here we have a magnificent collision of two idiotic practices: tenure, which relieves professors of trying altogether, allowing them instead to pursue ideas that would fail miserably in a world of measurable achievement; and gender studies, a fuzzy field where earnest types angrily analyze the “phenomenon of gender.” Usually while wearing underwear made from hemp.
First, let’s tackle gender studies. The gist: being female is a social construct, internal sex organs be damned. The relationship between men and women is not about love, but power – a struggle between the powerless female against evil patriarchal man.
In short, I could have just said, “moogiebloogietoogie,” and it would have made more sense. I see gender studies as the post-modern dance of educational disciplines. People only enroll in it, in the end, to teach it. In that sense, gender studies is more like joining Amway, but without the delightful products cluttering up your garage. Because gender studies isn’t something that helps you do anything else but teach gender studies, it’s understandable why tenure is so vital here. What else are you going to do once people find you out?
The sad thing is, the world really needs gender studies – a truly literal version of it, however. Men don’t get women, and women don’t get men – and rather than spending so much time deconstructing phallic fantasies – we should be teaching the sexes how to respect each other during our daily lives. Do that, and you don’t just deserve tenure, you deserve some excellent toiletries.
If you’d like me to stop by, I have some anti-aging creams and serums I’d love to show you. You’ll like them so much, I bet you’ll want to sell them yourself!
And if you disagree with me, you’re probably a racist.
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Everything I needed to know about gender studies I learned in kindergarten: If you make a girl laugh, you can ride a happy wave for life; if you make a girl cry, you (and she) may never recover….
"Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity… as long as you don't point out that people are different." — Colin Quinn
Last night's episode of The Amazing Race proved once and for all there is a huge difference between the sexes.
Two of the female cotestants were unable to ring a bell of the strength-tester (swing the big hammer to ring the bell) and they gave up after 71 attempts. In between attempts they were constantly hugging each other and crying.
Every male contestant rang the bell on their first try. Take that N.O.W.
Chris Rock "Chivalry IS dead… and women killed it!"
Hey – ugly people need jobs too.
Oh, yes, you got it! Too funny!
My daughter attended the Air Force Academy in the late 90's. One day she called home in a state and blurted out that everyone there was a male chauvenist pig. She then said that it did not matter because she knew how do deal with them as she had been raised by the greatest of them all. She is now very successful as an Air Force leader as she has no illusions of how men think.
students and faculty are up in hairyunderarms
There, I fixed it for you.
My observation is that most students enrolled in 'gender studies' types of majors are doing it less to teach than for a combination of two reasons: (1) easy academics; and (2) desire to consider themselves to be 'victims'–and then exploit it. Now '*teaching*' it may be all they have then equipped to do. Sad.
What's also sad is that there *can* be some good research on sex and gender differences, in physiology, in literature, and the like, which can be conducted without the gigantic chip on the shoulder. These would generally need to be at the post-graduate level to be useful or valid; at the undergraduate level there is too much foundational stuff which should be learned first.
Brilliant! And I'd be scared to hire a gender studies major/graduate for any job, fearing that she'd be rude to male clients and would be a sex harassment lawsuit waiting to happen. I wouldn't hire a black/gay/Latino-studies graduate either. Even English Lit is a more rigorous course of study than these silly PC contemplating-my-navel majors.
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I hope I can achieve tenure at Gutfeld University by teaching Male Gender Studies. All we'd do is sit around, guzzle alcoholic beverages of one's choice (not mandatory), and check out the hot chicks on Red Eye.
And if you don't take this class, you're probably sexist.
I believe we dissect a houseboy as well.
Yet again, I refer you all to Thomas Sowell.
"Tenure Rules Protect Academia's Louts": http://www.vindy.com/news/2005/feb/18/thomas-sowe...
I remember reading in one of his books that being named Professor of the Year essentially killed your chances at getting tenure.
Also, I would like a Ph. D. in gender studies for realizing that men have different genitals than women. I have also come to the groundbreaking conclusion that women have breasts and men do not.
I hear Harvard calling me already…
No.
That goes along with my theory that feminism was made up by . . . ugly women who couldn't get men to marry them! And yes, I am a woman. But have you seen pictures of feminists – sorry, but "men in dresses" hardly even adequately describes them! Eeeeewww!
LOL!
I once worked with a Women's Studies grad on a psych unit, one of the most inadequate and personality disordered humans I've every encountered. Like a hammer that sees everything a nail, she sniffed the landscape for grievances on a daily basis.
She later went on to a position at a battered women's shelter where she could ply her trade of men hating. I can't even imagine the damage she did to those women trying to regain their lives which would include hopefully caring males in their futures.
If these miserable harpies were just a academic amusement they might be ignorable but they inflict their dysfunction on vulnerable victims where they find them. Oh, and, I'm a female so my opinions of they are not sexist.
…..and if you disagree with me, you’re probably a pregnant bearded lady.
Gender and Women's studies is where earthy lesbians rationalize their hatred of men while they try to get laid by the college coeds who have to take their classes to graduate.
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I met a graduate of Gender studies recently. After she packaged my burger and fries I asked her
how her 4 year study of the human species had changed her if at all. She said "HUH'
I rephrased and asked her again what the degree she had "earned" had meant to her, she replied "OH' I
am on the waiting list for teachers assist at the local public grade school. She claimed she had to
really show her stuff as there were 40 or 50 of her class mates also on the list. It certainly was a good thing she had studied so dilligently or it would have been a long time to get this far on the path of success she now enjoys. I wished her luck.
LKD, you are dead wrong. Michael Moore most definitely has breasts!
The more women taking these cources the better! In this job economy, less competition!
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Well spoken by Thomas Sowell, who's gotten money to be a kook for thirty years through grants and doesn't teach anything at all.
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I remember the course I had to take back in college – Women and Men: Roles and Relatuionships. What a waste. Whn the professor wasn't bragging about how cool a parent she was (she let her teenage son have female guests overnight) she was pushing her progressive left wing agenda at us. We spent two classes watching a pro aortion video – abortion was a subject she loved to pontificate about – when i asked when we were going to watch an anti abortion video so we could see both sides of the issue, she laughed and muttered "Oh, we're not doing that."
My attendence dropped greatly after that class.
i think his use of the phrase "fuzzy field" was another thinly veiled reference to excess body hair…
If you get a major in Gender Studies what do you get your minor in?
Protest Management…
Except when he teaches millions of people 2-3 days a week via articles and from routinely nationally best selling books. Try again.
That's the problem with women…..
First they assume we think ….
And then through nagging force us to think so that we can tell them what we think….
Then they tell us to shut up……… Wasted effort as we would gladly have done that to begin with
He's too busy publishing books and articles.
Also, he used to teach at UCLA, Brandeis, Douglass College, Howard, and Cornell.
You are just a dolt.
Oh, sorry. I got into Gutfeld University-Schulz Campus.
yeah, i knew one of those once, right down to the battered women's shelter counselor part. after dining out with her and her husband (poor bastard- a close childhood friend, too. i wonder and worry about him to this day), she screamed at me that i had 'committed an aggressive act of assault upon her person' while in a moment of horseplay in the restaurant i flicked a piece of a swizzle stick at her. i still wish i was making that up…
Any other females out there who totally felt like a fish out of water walking into the gender studies office? I felt like they could smell a pro-lifer from 100 yds. For the life of me, I don't remember why I went in there. I think it was an interview for a class assignment or something. Spooky.
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College is a scam and a racket.
"Cources"huh… another college gradute I see.
Queer Studies is a nice complement to Gender Studies.
That's one of the smarter things I've seen on this blog. "Diversity" as it's used nowadays essentially means fewer white people – especially straight white males who, as we all know, are responsible for all the suffering on the planet.
Strangely enough, proponents of "diversity" don't decry any lack of diversity in non-Western countries.
Ok but that does not have enough words to make it sound collegiate….
How about Non Traditional Gender Attraction and Alternative Lyfestyle studies….
I wish I could find humor on this topic, but it really re-inforces the manner by whicht the left-wing has over-run academia in this country, and that the Carter-era creation of a "Deptartment of Education" was the "Health Care Reform" of its day. Consolidate all the power/money/control in Washington, where the elite can do what it wishes free from honest media scrutiny, opposition, or debate.
Fighting for a decentralization of that power, ie. disband the department of education, disband National Educational Unions, remove the tax collection/distribution from Federal hands and return it to the states, and…presto…all these silly fields of psuedo study would dry up as Education competed to fufill demand from the public, instead of fufilling the vision of the elite.
I want my country back.
You might have a future in college administration.
"Gradute"huh… another college graduate I see.
I had to take a women's studies course to graduate. Good grief, what a freak show that was. I still don't understand why they had such an aversion to bathing.
It would take a different person than now runs for office. They would have to have an iron
back bone to take the abuse the local and national media would inflict upon him. He or She would
have to have very dedicated and angry folks requesting his/her efforts on their behalf.
Money is required, of course. Once in office they must be able to arouse support from fellow politicians and it goes on. We come closest in 94 and look what that brought us, little overall improvement.
We always end up with the D.C. fellow travelers, to get along you must go along or threaten to be forever a back bencher and be not invited to the party circuit. Reelection is the main thrust of the term and every once in a while interview a few pages for those lonely afternoons or get your office manager to hire better looking women to pursue if a male office holder not so much for a woman. I am a bit of a fatalist when it comes to politics tho I am with you in thought.
Gender studies should have biology and neuroscience requirements.
Soooo you think bathing daily should be required of everyone? What are you, a fascist? There are plenty of cultures in which ppl don't bathe everyday; are you saying they aren't as good as ours?
Yes, I did go to a women's college; how did you guess? ; )
You're not too far off with the fascist remark. I had an English professor who compared me to Hitler because I would write "he" instead of "he/she" in my term papers. I'm not making that up.
Don't even get me started on feminism. It's such a load of crap. I mean, I'm all for strict laws on physical and sexual abuse, and for stopping sexual harassment (so long as it's actually harassment and not just a few dirty jokes or something), and for women who have equal education, job experience and length of time on the job getting equal pay, but other that that? No. The rest of it is nonsense at best.
When did "patriarchal" become a bad word, anyway? All it used to mean was that a man was the head of a family or organization, and now it's used almost exclusively to bash men who, for the most part, have done nothing wrong.
So, why are you saying he's wrong?
I believe you; many of them really are that messed up.
Gutfeld, you are awesome! Liberals democrats are old and boring.
What can you do Sarah when the otherside of the aisle owns the subject and defines the rules. If a Lib said what you just written it would be considered a very enlightened statement. The same statement from you,
I would guess a conservative tell me if I'm wrong, and you are a related to a very early neanderthal. Its a matter of nuances.
You are incorrect. Many males have boobs, also known as "moobs." For proof, see Obama shirtless.
I feel your pain. Oh, do I.
I wonder if Amway makes depilatories?
You three have written my lifes experience in so few words.
I've always viewed any major with the word "studies" in it, as not a real major anyways. Am I wrong?
Sorry Dr. Lamont Hill.
Dear Individualist. brilliant and true!
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Never thought about it until now. I believe I will have to agree.
Sorry Dr. Lamont Hill.
I guess we are both racists now.
Third category here under women's studies: lesbians trying to find reinforcement in their eschewing of men! Can't leave that out.
Except they wouldn't be caught dead in a dress… No wonder they hate Sarah Palin.
I took women's studies. it's a great way to meet women and get laid.
Lol. My husband tells me all the time that when women ask men what they're thinking and they say "nothing," that's the literal truth.
Feminism has definitely hurt male-female relations. I have known women like you describe (though no one in a position to inflict such harm) and men are not their problem, just a convenient scapegoat.
Oh my. This is such an unintentionally funny thread.
I think they all went to the same college and don't yet reconize each other.
Sometimes the most innocent is the funniest.
Listen to your husband because he is telling the truth!
It only took me about 10 years to convince my wife of this.
If your daughter were to tell her story to a "women's studies" class, they would probably try to convince her that she had been brain-washed into believing that she could actually deal with men and the men were only pretending to put up with her so that they could continue to control her.
The only thing that professors of Women's Studies are good for is getting Harvard presidents fired for daring to suggest that men and women might have different innate aptitudes in the fields of science and engineering.
Oh wait, I remembered that professors of Women's Studies are also good for accusing members of the Duke Lacrosse team of rape (which they did not commit).
The problem is not in having Women's Studies. The problem is the way the field is misused and abused.
"She later went on to a position at a battered women's shelter…"
Was it a shelter for women who had been knocked around, or was it a shelter for women, and the shelter building was in poor condition?
/still on my first cup. sorry…
That, or thinking up names for government make-work jobs.
Yeah, women can be sexist towards women too. Just check out women in Islamic countries who are happy with discrimatory laws, or even closer to home: Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly.
Good one, Greg! You should consider editing your piece to include the federal government as an employment destination where such highly qualified liberal arts majors are welcomed with open, hairy, and bingo wing-laden arms. They find useful work in Equal Employment Opportunity offices as grievance counselors where they are allowed to perpetuate the canard that all young, middle aged, and old white guys are out to get them in many different ways. They'er like giant estrogen powered Swords of Damocles hovering above any unsuspecting guy who might actually consider writing an annual review that approximates the truth. It is not hard to pick them out at the cafeteria. They are usually dressed like Helena Bonham Carter on her worst day, openly advertising their disdain for a professional environment and with hair that looks like it's,
"A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words…"
Truly, "there ain't no words" to describe such "visions." Even the health inspectors are afraid to approach them.
Applications are being taken at the door marked "O".
Womyn of power. You just have an infantile fear of the womb and the Earth Goddess.
your dismissal of Dr. Sowell as a 'kook' grants the rest of us license to dismiss you as an idiot.
waaaaay back when, I thought the women's movement made sense. Back when it was about equal pay for equal work (which really was a problem) but these days it's just bizarro world. Every female writer who ever lived either was a lesbian or secretly wanted to be one. Every person with a penis is an evil power hungry despot. (I've met a few of those, and some of them were "liberated" women.) Every male glance is a sexual assault. To bear a child is highly suspect, to actually raise a child is a betrayal of all womanhood. I wouldn't want to send an 18 year old mind into that kind of poisonous air.
community organizing?
Tenure is for "teachers" who are lying leftist loons, pedophiles, or both.
"Women's Studies" should be, at most, a one semester course, or better yet, a single unit within a broader class. (not to be confused with a 'class broad', no offense, ladies.) Making it, and other dubious 'Studies', a degree program was one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated by academe. And people say athletes take joke courses…
The very best gender studies course is not taught in college, check out John Gray Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars. Sat through one of his lectures/seminars and my wife and I agree to disagree on most everything and compromise on what we both value.
You know why prostitution is the worlds oldest profession? For $50 she will do for a man what his wife won't.
I dated a womyn earning her master of philosophy. The wild, WILD sex was great. Her post-graduate employment as a deputy assistant team leader at the fried fish restaurant chain cooled the sex. Surely quoting Kierkegaard while slicing whitefish enlightens ESLers.
I am beginning to agree with you on that. I went back to school after 30 years to get my MLS, and I still can't figure out what "Global Diversity or Community" or whatever nonsense had to do with library science. Some of the classes I took could have been summed up in an hour simply by saying that the library field is a "service field." Instead we were subjected to pages of articles filled with bloated verbage that were barely readable.
Never understood why my Daughter had to take this class in College. The word is HAD and she HAD to pay for it, a disturb teacher who HATES men. That is what she got of it.. Just because she is an unhappy female why does the class have to be subject to her empty life.
Make them take physics and calculus in order to obtain tenure.
That'll weed out the gene pool of gender studies.
You've contemplated hiring one? What's your business, ditch diggers?
What else would they be capable of doing?
Can you change the name of the class to something technical, so I can try to get my employer to pay the tuition.
Dr. Sowell is a professor of economics at Berkley. He's a member of the Hoover Institute think tank. He's written volumes of books. He writes weekly columns posted at multiple web sites.
What exactly have you accomplished that proves you have the credentials to judge Dr. Sowell?
And running the deep fryer at Burger King does not count.
I salute this post Greg. You are dead on correct here. I could never understand why proffs who didn't really teach anything worthwhile and who haranged us with their messed up political views were allowed to teach. The women's studies proffs, a dizzying array of bitter, butch, malcontented females were more worthy of a straight jacket and thorazine tab. Nothing they said made sense because it didn't fit with the way I grew up and I had brothers who are all Alphas and a Dad who defined the word manly man dude. I remember I took one class with one of the witches who taught this garp for history because she floated between departments. Dear GAWD! I so wanted to ask her this question: "Ma'am why aren't you in a state hospital?" HA!
Greatest sinecure of all time: an academic "discipline" in which you don't actually have to have any.
All that is required to be a Gender/Racial/Sexual Orientation Studies Perfesser is a really bad attitude.
The purpose of such fields of "study" is not to shed light on anything, but to generate heat and confusion.
I think it's time we retired the term "College Education," which is fast approaching the status of an oxymoron.
It's been at least 30 years since having a ticket amounted to knowing how to think. It happens, as is evident from most of the comment here, but it's pretty apparent that those people learned to reason and take responsibility despite going to college, not because of it.
I never had to take a women's/gender study course. I had to take Ethnic Studies, which is much the same greivancemongering against white hertero males.
The sad thing is, if it was actually studying other ethnic groups' cultures like the course description said, it would have been interesting.
Yes, I'll have fries with that.
Did you say "kook" because Thomas Sowell is a black man. Was that meant to be a racist slur? That a blend between "coon" and "spook", right? I think it was.
Racist!!
I agree, with the small caveat that those girls were weak even for women. I hated them. The one girl did all of the work on the challenges while the other followed along with her ridiculous roller-bag being essentially dead weight. They only lasted as long as they did out of sheer luck and because they kept getting help from others, usually the gay brothers. I couldn't WAIT for them to be eliminated.
I took several classes taught by the Dean of Women's Studies at my uni. They weren't gender studies, but it always permeated the subject. When I disagreed with her about Sophia Coppola's assertion that Romeo and Juliet didn't commit suicide, but were actually victims of misogyny, she called me uneducated and emotionally immature. But she's the Dean, so she can say whatever she likes – also thanks to tenure.
I live only 10 miles from their main facility. I will find out for you.
I wonder if he knows my brother who is also a professor of economics at Berkely. I should ask him next time I visit.
His moobshake brings all the girls to the yard…
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