How to survive the wacky gender politics on campus | FACTUAL FEMINIST
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- If you’re headed to college for the first time this fall, you need to be aware of some strange new developments. Don’t be alarmed, most of you are going to be very happy at college, and will thrive there. But you need to know what to expect. Christina Hoff Sommers explains how to negotiate your way through the wacky sexual politics on campus.
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Colleges throughout the United States are carried away with eccentric gender politics. In general, the higher the tuition, the greater the eccentricity. At schools with a more working class population, the students often have more pressing concerns than finding new ways to be offended. As an incoming freshman, many of you will be subject to special training sessions and introduced to a new vocabulary with odd terms like “trigger warnings,” “othering,” “microaggression,” “male privilege,” and “safe spaces.” Outside Speakers-especially comedians- will be called out and boycotted for breaches of sensitivity. Colleges are changing their mission: Truth seeking is being replaced by the more sensitive goal of making everyone-especially female students-- feel safe and validated. Ideas that get in the way of this mission may not tolerated. Here are three survival tips-custom-tailored to your political views-plus a fourth, bonus tip for everybody. Number one: If you are libertarian or conservative, no one is that concerned with your feelings. That’s actually a good thing. You’re going to face a challenging intellectual environment. According to a recent UCLA study, there are nearly 5 times more liberal professors than conservative professors on college campuses. Your views will be tested every day, but most of your teachers will treat you respectfully. Your ideas will face critical scrutiny and you may end up revising or abandoning some of them. Again, that’s a good thing. That’s what education is supposed to be about-and it’s something many liberal students are missing. What is not good is that a noisy minority of students-and a few professors-will see you as the embodiment of evil. If you express your opinions vigorously, some classmates may complain to school authorities that your presence makes them feel “unsafe.” But here is the bright side. Even at schools overrun by the new orthodoxy, you will find great friends and allies, male and female, and professors too, whether they agree with you or not. Now, if you are liberal and idealistic, and also a woman, you face a different sort of risk. When you get to campus you will find a large and excited group of gender activists-students and some professors-eager to recruit you to their cause. They will present you with shocking statistics of sexual violence on campus, and theories about an oppressive patriarchy. They will tell you how mistreated and traumatized you are. It will seem new and exciting-a way to make friends and fight injustice at the same time-and you may be tempted to sign up. Just be aware that most of the victim statistics you will hear are wildly exaggerated and the theories about women’s oppression are twisted and surreal. As for trigger warnings and safe spaces-these are infantile. They are the opposite of empowerment. It’s the fashion on many campuses to treat women as delicate flowers-fragile little birds. But most of you are tough and resilient. The gender activists I am describing will probably say, “Don’t listen to her.” “Don’t take her word for anything.” Well, that’s true you shouldn’t take my word on these matters. You shouldn’t take anybody’s word. Think for yourself. Your feminist foremothers fought and won a battle for your right to be educated on a par with men. They knew you were tough, and wanted you to have the opportunity to put that strength to use. Don’t waste it by falling captive to a pointless ideology or indulging in victimhood. Take serious classes in philosophy, science, and history. Avoid courses that luxuriate in female oppression.
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One of my old professors informed the class that, as a rule, he'd call on women before he'd call on men. He justified this by saying something along the lines of "women have been denied a voice throughout history."
Andrew Mushel Well that is because...
While women have often been "denied" rights and responsibilities... it has often been denied women because of the desire of men to protect and shelter women.. not oppress them or deny them any rights
***** There are a lot of professors like that. what is university and collage without professors doing things to become memorable. though I do hope that he is not the kind to take sides just from someone's gender
Andrew Mushel Well that's also why there was women who was fighting against getting the right to vote... as they were afraid of getting the responsibility of the draft
(one would usually assume to get the responsibility that comes with the privilege... though I guess not anymore as feminist just want more rights and less responsibilities for women or so it seems)
Graham Mikkelson Lol no way.. that's fucking crazy. I'm going to college right now, will be my second year, and if a professor says such a thing I as the woman that I am... will break out in hysterical laughter at him/her. I am very pro woman and study all things women and women in history. Yes women in many moments through out history around the world have faced discrimination because of our gender, but what the hell does that have to do with allowing women to get away with ANYTHING today? If anything when we study about women who have overcome obstacles through out history we should feel humbled instead of getting some ego rush trip that makes us feel entitled to wreck hell over the earth in the name of '' OMG WOMEN WERE TOLD THEY WERE STUPID BECAUSE OF PHRENOLOGY IN THE VICTORIAN ERA! WE SHOULD APPLY THIS MOMENT IN HISTORY TO TODAYS MODERN AMERICA AND ACT LIKE WE ARE BEING EQUALLY OPPRESSED TO THE WOMEN CHARGED AS WITCHES FOR HAVING A MOLE ON THEIR NOSE!"
Oh god... that's what people learned from reading womens history? What a fucking shame.
Graham Mikkelson
Translation : "I'm here to get laid"
"As for trigger warnings and safe spaces-these are infantile. They are the opposite of empowerment" BOOM! That just happened.
Isn't your home a safe space?
I remember getting a bad grad for a fictional writing assignment because it wasn't diverse enough. I wish this wasn't true.
Hybrid Nerd What?!
kebiwoni Yep. My English Comp one class.
+Hybrid Nerd and that is why i got my english classes out of the way in highschool.
+Hybrid Nerd I don't think your bad grad had anything to do with a lack of diversity.
@@Bobby_Corwen ah yes we check yt comments as much as essays
"Let me tell you how oppressed you are, regardless of the fact you got in this ivy league school at all"
- College campuses to women, 2015
Nazrat84 Is that mansplaining I see? :^)
Nazrat84 My rule of thumb is that if you can afford the internet - enough to bitch about how oppressed you are - you're not oppressed.
+neonoir77 I get your point of view, but, as Christina Hoff Sommers once mentioned, a girl was jailed for posting a feminist cartoon on Facebook. I'd say that that is oppression, even though she obviously has access to the Internet.
MissLoremasterSarah Well, that's true. But most people who spend all their time bitching about oppression on the internet probably aren't oppressed. :P
Nazrat84 Marxism 2015
I just had my orientation for the University of California on Wednesday where I had to attend a MANDATORY presentation on consent. Let that little bit of irony sink in.
+Jarl Snaekoll My campus has billboards of micro-aggressions posted around the place. And yes, they even have the one that says, "I believe the most qualified person should get the job" listed.... Kill me now.
You should have screamed "NO MEANS NO"
+Achizzie69 I'd attend the class with my headphones on so I can't listen too the stupidity
+babby Unless you're attending the same university as the poster, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, and have no right to accuse him of "bullshitting". Stick to what you know-like your own experience at YOUR university, and don't call other people liars!!
+Jarl Snaekoll Was it just obvious bullshit or did you learn something? I seriously want to know :)
I studied sociology from 2005-2009 ish including taking Women's studies courses such as "Women and Representation" where I actively questioned the stats I was told as they contradicted my other soc courses.
Apparently if I'd done this just a few years later I'd have been lynched.
Wow... I think we all gonna be logic'less... Or... We can all point a gun at our head (or if your smart in your mouth upwards) and shoot... It would be less painful... ;-;
Shawn McRoberts So, what was their rebuttal to these contradictions?
A literal dismissal. *Raise hand* (from front row center in a class with 500 people in which I was one of only 6 males) "My Canadian sociology class sited stats that showed the opposite, can you explain the contradiction?"
Response: "They're wrong" *moves on with lecture*
Shawn McRoberts It's nice when they put so much effort and research into it to give you an elaborate answer.
+Shawn McRoberts I wish everyone was like you. I had a friend who got her masters in sociology, and she fell down the rabbit hole of gender studies. The last time we spoke, she said that people denying that America is a rape culture is solid proof that America is rape culture.
"In general, the higher the tuition, the greater the eccentricity. At schools with a more working class population, the students often have more pressing concerns than finding new ways to be offended."
Absolutely, spot on. I wouldn't go to a more expensive college even if I had the money to spend.
More campus survival tips:
1) If you encounter a woman and her hair is dyed red, you need to run in the other direction.
2) If you encounter a woman and her hair is dyed green, you need to put on a hazmat suit and run in the other direction.
Jason Brown you forgot a couple.
Acid green
Aero
Aero blue
African violet
Air Force blue
Air superiority blue
Alabama crimson
Alice blue
Alizarin crimson
Alloy orange
Amaranth
Amaranth deep purple
Amaranth pink
Amaranth purple
Amaranth red
Amazon
American rose
Amethyst
Android green
Anti-flash white
Antique brass
Antique bronze
Antique fuchsia
Antique ruby
Antique white
Ao
Apple green
Apricot
Aqua
Aquamarine
... nevermind there isn't enough space to add them all.
Jason Brown The colored hair Randi Harper jokes are funny, don't get me wrong... But I can't help being a little annoyed (maybe I should direct it towars the feminists for stealing it, however) that outrageous fashion choices and alternative subcultures have been conflated with SJW. Because I enjoy coloring my hair as well as CHS... And if you run away from this girl with radioactive colored hair, you'll be running away from your ally.
Charles Belton I have to agree with this, if you run they will go into hunting mode and kill you
Jason Brown I actually find women with dyed hair attractive. It bothers me that it's becoming increasingly associated with SJWism.
Jodgee Deep down though I'd bet if you could take the hot girl with blue hair and double tattoo sleeves and wipe her down to her natural hair colour and unblemished skin, you'd be all for it. A hot girl in a garbage bag dress is still a hot girl. A pig with lipstick is still a pig.
Took gender studies freshman year in college. I hid in STEM courses and video games for the rest of college after being introduced to Critical Theory-based SocJus. Not much room for identity politics with transport proteins and ganked n00bs.
Mark Samenfink I also took STEM, but I made a point to avoid any general education coursed which included the words "women," "black," and "african." Since I knew those were the types of courses that attracted the sjw types. Instead I took asian culture courses for those credits.
erkdoc5 From what i hear those courses make sjws not just draw them.
erkdoc5 ...hey that is exactly what I am doing :o
Mark Samenfink Same here. Studying Mathematics... and well, there's no possible way to insert gender/identity politics anywhere. It's a good strategy.
erkdoc5 I am an english lit major, and one ethic literature class is required for my degree. I might take an Asian American literature course if it is offered. Asian American is actually quite inspiring since many authors focus on the great things Asian American achieved in the U.S. Almost every story has that rags-to-riches feel.
I'm glad I finished Uni awhile ago. Still had feminists on campus whinging about stupid things. I remember reading about a women's only room, for "Safety," was going to be moved. Not removed, but moved to a different space. The article listed reasons why they needed a women's room and why it shouldn't move. One reason that I still remember is that they need a women's room to withdraw from all the phallic symbols. I read that and looked around. I saw no such symbols. Then I looked harder: almost everything could be seen as a phallic symbol! From the poles that held up the hand rails to the pylons that prevented cars from driving onto the grounds.
Oh wow, that Arthur Chu tweet LMAO
Arthur Chu I believe has recanted many of his statements. He is now neutral, but these tweets will stay forever.
Patrick Cox Are you sure you're not thinking about Ian Miles Cheong?
Vault Boy® What did he say this time?
EDIT: Never mind, you meant the one from the video.
+Vault Boy® He should lead by example. Maybe with a swan dive.
If you come across women that dye their hair an unnatural color of the rainbow? FUCKING RUN.
Charles Belton Clever tactic.
Matthew Dolby I don't know about you guys but I like Neon Blue hair... On hot girls... Not on land whales... I like nothing on land whales.
She is good cop, Milo is bad cop.
Ladderadder Mcglitternips: Wouldn't make sense considering that Milo doesn't swing that way.
that's a very good way to put it, actually. I'm gonna keep that analogy.
That's just right. Milo is poisonous, Christina is enlightening
but milo WAS unstoppable and loud !!
But they're both necessary.
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Ben 'One Man Klan' Garrison *Results may vary.
Ben 'One Man Klan' Garrison You won.
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whaz base mom mean?
Hearing this is actually really scary. And this is coming from someone who once considered himself to be a feminist (using the simple definition of the ideology in equal rights). While it's been almost 10 years since I graduated from college, I feel like I know myself well enough to admit that my younger self would have fallen into that mob mentality and become another Arthur Chu if this whole trigger culture existed back then. It may be a bit embarrassing to admit that, but I've since come to learn that inciting anger in others really has a way of making people not think logically or for themselves at all.
I attended a Scottish university, where I took Film Studies for a semester. It turned out that not only had my lecturer written an entire book about women in film, but she also decided to dedicate a week of the course to the subject. I chose the module because I wanted to learn about the technical side of film-making, not so I could be a captive subject for feminist proselytizing. The social sciences/soft subjects really are in a sorry state at Western universities.
My Eng Lit prof puts all the extreme feminist agenda in fairy tales instead of talking about psychoanalysis of the characters and the history and environment on when the stories were written
"You shouldn't take _anyone's_ word for it! _Think for yourself._"
I think this is my favorite of CHS' work!
I ain't going anywhere arm-in-arm with Arthur Chu.
*****
lol, toss his ass... didn't think of that, hopefully it wasn't a freudian slip.
MGTOW FTW "I prefer syrup"
+Morry On The Fence He has the kind of face that demands punching. But with a mask on his mug.
Arthur Chu is just mad he's still a virgin and resentful at dudes who actually get laid.
Completely correct. I graduated 6 months ago, kept my critical thinking thank you very much. Thankfully it was a community college so the foolishness wasn't too bad and was _Sometimes_ correct. But overall, all one needs to do is take anything they hear with a grain of salt.
I have a son in university, he is in engineering, I have asked him about feminism on campus. My son is very quiet and reserved, but he has admitted to me that it is a problem, and he just keeps his head down, just to get through.
I pray he survives
Thank you.
It'll get worse if your son has a student guild with elections. On my campus, they get pretty crazy with their campaigning, yelling at people who reject their ideas by openly yelling in public and calling them racist/sexist, etc... All for a spot at the guild-president position...
My boy has stopped posting on all his social media profiles telling me he wants to change the theme, what does that even mean.
A few weeks back he got into an argument on snapchat that was a continuation of a face to face from school, it looked like he attacked without cause and was asked to apologies and take the posts down..
I spoke with him and he was very upset telling me he didn't start it, this is how they manipulate the situation.
He tells me he can't trust anybody, this is time in life when people should be able to talk about anything, I know we did as kids, school was a place to explore ideas and now it nothing more than an echo chamber..
I worry for my Son, my Daughter simply caused through all this, this is telling.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if your son didn't start it. In today's victim-hood society everyone looks for something to be offended over in everything. In all likelihood, your son posted something normal, someone got offended for no reason, and they tried to bully your son into joining the hive mind but he's staying strong and refuses to give in. This is all of course conjecture and I could be completely wrong, but if the other kid is an SJW in any way, shape, or form I'm probably pretty right.
I dropped out of 3 different colleges, usually after 3 semesters, when I realized I was accruing an exorbitant amount of debt for outright misinformation.
I absolutely love this series! Thank you for creating it, and for this video in particular. I am going for the second year of my four year college and this video was scarily similar to the experiences I had. I knew what real feminism is and that these radical feminists existed and saw the many flaws in their logic before they could attempt their brainwashing recruitment. My friends were not so lucky and they became caught up in an almost cultish group. At first they joined because it seemed appealing, but they soon realized what it was, but were actually scared to leave for fear of harassment, and labeling by this group. They did manage to, as a group, leave, finding strength in numbers. I am said to say though that one of my friends, who was slightly off base from the start in her views, just found reinforcement and it almost seems I lost her because of it. I hope I can get her back from her Tumblr blog, and cult group, but I doubt it. *sigh*
I've never found a feminist who agrees and believes so closely to my thoughts, I've hated "feminists " for a while due to their exaggerated views and this CZcams channel has me genuinely excited and makes me feel more justified in what I've always believed. Thank you so much.
I am required to sake a social science for my engineering degree (upcoming freshman), and as sociology was the only one available during the summer, I ended up taking that one. Literally, whenever a study is listed or a statistic stated, I research it to check the validity of the claim. However, all of the statistics and claims were either found on studies which contained heavy bias, they misrepresented the information, and/or the statistic was a correlation, not a causation. This class victimizes women so much, and the ironic part, is that over half of the women in the class are in STEM fields and engineering.
I am offended by the fact that you didn't round up the last digit of your approximation to pi.
"Don't be like Arthur Chu" is advice any smart person can get behind.
This is what to expect in American colleges these days?? Sometimes I really worry how my generation will turn out, especially those born in the late 90s/early 2000s.
I just want to say that you are the most wonderful human being alive, and the problem with universities these days is that they simply don't have enough people like you.
Thank you so much for this video. I felt freer, safer, and more intellectually challenged as a homosexual female at a Russian university than at an "open-minded" American university, simply because I think for myself and question the paranoid feminist narrative. You speak the truth in a culture where truth is considered "oppressive."
I took a psychology class beck in the 70's and the first thing the instructor said was nobody cares about your feelings and very often about you either. Funniest thing I have ever heard. His message basically was, toughen up buttercup, the world is a rough place.
Based as usual, Christina. Thanks for the video
Spot on! I was a TA at a California university. A student overheard me asking the question "why does everyone keeps posting the #handsupdontshoot when the evidence doesn't substantiate the claim?" The student later wrote an e-mail to my professor claiming that she didn't feel safe in our classroom because she was afraid that, because I was a white male, I would grade her unfairly. She was taken out of my class and I was asked not to talk about controversial subjects in class (even among other TAs, I was not using my position as a TA to preach any ideology).
As a University student I see a lot of this, not in my school but my girlfriend's. I go to an online University so the student interaction is mostly school related and our professors encourage in depth discussion. Everyone is respectful to each other and it works as a way to expand your way of thinking. My school is not the norm but the example other institutions should strive to be.
Christina Hoff Sommers: "Think for yourself"
SocJus/Anita Sarkeesian: "Listen & Believe"
ARTHUR CHU ON FULL BLAST RIGHT NOW!!!
"Trigger warnings, safe spaces. These are infantile. These are the opposite of empowerment."
Great video. Always good to hear someone so eloquent and knowledgeable sum everything up in a straightforward, concise way.
"...you shouldn't take my word on these matters. You shouldn't take anybody's word! You should think for yourself."
My kind of lady. Thank you, Christina. You are like a voice of reason in a crowd full of shouting maniacs.
I graduated last year and I didn't encounter any of this. That being said, I was an engineering student and I spent almost all of my time in the lab and/or at home studying. These people are wasting their lives and our tax dollars. Free speech / the right to say whatever the hell you want no matter how offensive it is is the most important principle in a place that's supposed to be associated with learning.
Your experience is typical for STEM students. You are too busy getting an actual education and so are you faculty to be involved in political social crap. It is the soft areas of academia; sociology, psychology, art, women, ethnic studies and others where this stuff is rampant. These areas of "study" attract the lowest quality students who have usually flunked Algebra 121. These "studies" are more about your feelings rather than logic, reason, facts and science. Everything is opinion based, sometimes just brainwashing.
Congrats on your degree and good luck.
Oh yeah? There is a physics prof.in University of Toronto who also happens to be a trans activist LMAO.
As a progressive male entering college this upcoming fall I must say this was very helpful information. Thank you so much!
Wow. I'm taking a gender studies course now and this is exactly what they preach consistently. I'm just glad I never had to go to any meetings about accountability and sensitivity, though the teachers are very much like that.
I just found your channel and I am so delighted to hear a person who is objective and sticks to the facts instead of just reporting what it seems to be popular with the masses. Thank you for your channel and comments . 🙏🙏
How have I not found your series earlier? Seriously 10/10 content.
"Think for yourself"
What a radical ideology in today's higher education.
This is literally the very first respectful and intelligent feminist I've ever seen in my life. Mad respect for her.
This is something I have particularly been afraid of. I am going to college in a month and am concerned that I'll be interacting with these kinds of uber-SJW gender activists. It's frankly quite worrying given the fact that I'm sick and tired of this behavior. Hopefully I'll survive.
I graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas just a year and two-and-a-half months ago.
Here's a piece of advice that will ensure none of these gender politics ever enter your studies. Unfortunately it is guaranteed to not work for everyone: Take a STEM major and go to a college that specializes in engineering. Any STEM, it doesn't matter. As long as it actually requires effort, you're pretty good to go.
Another good idea is to stay away from generalized universities and try to find a vocational school or similar. Demonstrations of your skills like projects are a lot more impressive than a college name on a resume anyways. If your recruiter disagrees, their company probably wasn't worth working for.
I'm very glad to say that none of these politics ever entered the campus culture while I was studying there, as far as I'm aware. I wasn't even aware of any feminism groups on campus; the closest thing was the LGBT group.
I've been in college for a few years after getting medically retired from the U.S. Army. Currently, I am in what people might call a liberal state or blue state and thankfully I haven't stumbled upon this extreme left ideology. I did hear about a "free speech zone" at one of the local campuses but apparently it was promptly dismissed as practice-- 1st Amendment is pretty clear. Majority of the students like hearing different ideas and perspectives for the most part. Personally, I haven't ran into any overtly sensitive people but then again maybe something about me scares them off?
You were in the recommended section so I play one of your videos. I'm glad I did because you speak facts not feelings. I'm now a fan.
I think your characterization is spot on! I was fortunate enough to graduate in 2009 before a lot of these ideologies went rampant, though I did experience much of them in their early stages. After graduating, I also worked on the campus of the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, which is the epitome of the indoctrination you described. It's only been recently that I realized this has become a nation-wide trend, and not just a quirk of Evergreen.
This was excellent. Fast, concise and fairly well covered!
I love the idea implied here, feminists of old fought for equality because women were as tough, and rigorous as men. They claimed that they didn't need special protection, because they could handle themselves as well as any man. As soon is equality achieved, feminists are fighting to re-establish that women are tender, fragile and in need of special encouragement, protection, shelter, etc. Maybe you Christina, and your good friend Camille Paglia are just wrong? Sure some women (you and Camille) deserve equality, because you indeed have "the right stuff," but maybe most women should remain in the shelter of the their safe places... Though, it seems to me that these special tender women are actually among the most violent and aggressive people that you are likely to meet outside of prison walls.
I failed my first college "critical thinking" course, because it was taught by a feminist who did not actually want us to practice critical thinking. This video makes me feel glad that I held my ground and was the only one to constantly question the premises being presented by our teacher. I proudly earned that F.
Thank you Christina for what you do. I work in academia and though I'm at a state run university in a fairly conservative state, we still have our feminist social justice warriors playing their victim game. As a father of three well educated adult women I applaud you for the example you set and values you promote. TRUE feminism may yet reemerge from this long dark night of the intellectual vacuum that is 3rd wave feminism.
Thats one of my big fears about going to college in the fall I'm worried that the feminists are going to see a liberal free thinking female and think OH you MUST agree with us and then imma be like uh nah I don't really like fear mongering and all of the sudden im a conservative internally mesoginized boogie man
Now it's 4 years later - how did it turn out?
@@gorihechi haha ill summarize my college experience with one story, election night I was in a friends room for most of the night and I walked back into my room right as they were calling it and my roommate who would go on to get a gender studies degree SCREAMED and slammed her laptop shut, and flung herself on the bed and began sobbing uncontrollably. I went outside to take a walk and people were running through the streets screaming and chanting and and setting garbage cans on fire like they were doing a live rendition of rent, but these people are like toddlers, they can't even articulate why they're upset and if you asked them to explain they just got more irrational, my dorm building was made up of 4 towers in the cardinal directions and I didnt sleep at all that night because people were screaming out the window all night
As usual Based mom is the best. We need her for President.
Christina Sommers 2016!
It's been 8 years since I was at uni - and I still have an involuntary twitch from the horrors of 'women's writing' and other feminist units I was forced to take in order to rack up enough credits to graduate. Between the embittered middle aged women, the vicious young recruits, the lesbian poetry and general hatred for straight white males... I'm surprised I came out reasonably well adjusted in spite of their relentless attempts to get me to hate myself. Chu took to the easy way out.
"Have some dignity. Don't be the guy who sends tweets like _this_."
This delivery was beautiful.
P.S. I love how Arthur Chu used "affect" for his username instead of "effect."
I wish I had seen this video a year ago. Im still trying to survive here
If feminists were more like you then we wouldn't be laughing and we would take you more seriously. But some feminists go on tele to complain about the air conditioning.
It gets worse: www.washingtonexaminer.com/feminists-upset-over-statue-of-man-and-woman-talking/article/2565164
I am a student at Columbia College Chicago. That place is all of the things you have just explained and I find myself constantly having to fact check people and give them a dose of perspective. My favorite is about how women can't be sexist and people of color can't be racist. It's excusing your own bigotry while labeling anything you don't like as offensive and unfit for public discussion. I really wish I could get Ms. Sommers to speak at my school.
Having just gotten out of college, I now have a Bachelors of Science majoring in Political science, I have to say that I am deeply dismayed by the ability of our current education system to accept the nonsense that it is in the manner in which it is and to the degree to which it has.
Well that's a sort of BS there - his can political science be a BSc? Surely it is part of the humanities not the sciences? Do you follow the scientific method?
It's actually pretty sad. You'd expect Independent's to have it easy, but my age is being played against me and such. So it really isn't easy for anyone.
I love your even-tempered, thoughtful approach to the subjects you cover. it is more of this kind of considered, calm thought that removes the rage.
As a Psychology major with Sociology minor I faced many challenges as I went head to head with progressive professors and students due to my political persuasion, independent conservative. I watched how young people where indoctrinated into these designer classes of gender studies and found it sad as I knew , as soon as they graduated they would be eaten alive by the world.
Since my move-in day is in a couple of weeks, I've got to thank you for this video, Based Mom!
5. Keep your mouth shut. Get your degree. GTFO.
6. Date off campus (or better yet, don't date, focus on your studies).
7. Try to take advantage of online schools whenever it makes sense.
8. Study hard, make lots of money.
9. Laugh (quietly) at the Women's Studies graduates making your coffee.
Thank you for this video. It's good to know that there's a lot of people who are not obnoxious or has not gone insane.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and find it quite informative. Thank you!
Let me try my hand at a "Sarcastic Wonka" meme:
"OH, SO YOU PRACTICE GENDER PROFILING?"
"TELL ME AGAIN HOW THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM RACIAL PROFILING."
i think this video should be given to all parents who have kids going to college in america and all over the world
Coming from the "Conversations with Bill Kristol" video (on which comments are disabled)
CHS explained well enough why people are so against this new type of "feminism". They are propagandists and want you to just "Listen and Belief", while a college needs to be for open discussion, critical thinking and gathering the truth.
Thank you, you prove that discussion and disagreement can be held and spoken without the need of profanity so many sites can't go a sentence without the F word plus others
Fuck yea, I need to meet this woman before I die
Get styled on Arthur Chu. Thank you for being a voice of reason Sommers.
Thanks for your video! And also it has attracted like minded people like myself who could not have vocalized so eloquently the real reason why these pay gaps exist. Bravo!!
All I can say is thank you for these videos Prof Sommers.
Might be a good idea at some point to start making a list of colleges/uiversities that give a functional biology curriculum (as well as a dozen other studies).
Matter of time before biology professors have to teach the controversy that female mammals having wombs is actually a social construct.
sorsocksfake
Biology is a social construct!!!
I have never been happier to be going to a community college.
"Think for myself?? But that conflicts with muh authoritarian social justice politics."
In all seriousness though, I'm lucky I never had to deal with this stuff; when I started college, my community college didn't have any sort of extra class or lecture to teach me gender politics. When I transferred to TTU, there was good discussion of racism and sexism in my speech/ethics class, but it was largely unaffected by the wacky gender politics (as well as other wacky identity politics) Sommers talks about. Another thing I like is that a Fraternity had a sign at one point reading "No means yes and yes means anal." The charter for their chapter was promptly revoked by the university and then by the national fraternity they were apart of IIRC. I also like that a Sorority who took racist photos of themselves dressing up as border police and "Mexicans" and arresting the Mexicans; IIRC they got in trouble with the university as well. I like it because bigots are getting what they deserve, and, at least to me, it seems like Texas Tech University is an ideal place where gender and race discrimination is negligible and punished, but at the same time, doesn't seem to suffer from the crap that Sommers is talking about. IDK maybe I'm wrong though.
If you are going to Texas Tech, be wary of dogmatic "social justice" propaganda in the housing department. It probably won't affect you too much unless you work for TTU housing as a Community Advisor or something though.
Very informative and helpful information, Sommers.
I had a news internship that made me aware of SJWs from a group called R.A.G.E. (Radical Alliance for Gender Equality) that spewed tons of statistical nonsense, opressions and microagressions, and everyone nodded their head and always cited "some important work" to echo the speaker. Didn't help my fears of self-independence that the LGBT hangout tried to bait-and-switch us with a pizza party to join a democratic activism group.
I've noticed especially in the education department (future teachers for all ages) the students adhere to a lot of identity politics ideas. Things like "sex is not gender" and sexism in the classroom. I am skeptical of both ideas, especially from the articles we read that had some paltry sources. Someone asked me why I thought otherwise in the middle of a week-long discussion of sexism in the classroom and i simply said I will take a biologist's perspective of gender over a sociologist's interpretation.
To be far, we did read an article about how the inequity of female early grade teachers affects boys' early education problems and groups like MenTeach. But I did learn why a lot of people think education is feminine. The rhetoric used to talk about education is full of nurturing and/or nebulous words: Caring guidelines, values of critical-thinking, concerns over the future students' livelihood (food, home, etc.), "listening to the children's perceptions", adolescent individualism, etc.
Nice shout-out to Arthur Chu.
Americans, don't feel hopeless. Most of the world is watching from the outside and learning, so it's not all for nothing.
+Balinux YAY!! I love being a guinea pig!
That was way more honest than I thought it would be. Well done.
Incredible. You are level headed and genuine and helpful to everyone.
Alternative: Study a real degree like math or physics and don't deal with people of this kind
***** A few of them are, but you can just ignore them. Most simply do not care about politics since they know it solves nothing
You survive by wearing a bodycam.
I graduated a 2 year diploma program in 2014. It was a great experience, but odd and sometimes off-putting as well. I was a mature straight white male in a class of 20 plus (mostly) young women. A number of times, when speaking of violence against women figures, my female instructors would sometimes look at me and apologize, to which I would good-naturedly say, "You don't have to apologize to me, I don't represent them, (the victimizers), and they don't represent me". I know the instructors were trying to be considerate of my feelings, but saying it out loud made me feel like I was suspect for merely being male, like I could conceivably be a problem, or at least be part of a larger systemic problem or imbalance. It made me feel like even more of an outsider than I already did, like even the curriculum itself was designating me as an oddity.
I love your videos........making great points with facts not feelings.
None of this advice will do me any good if I get expelled for a false sexual assault accusation.
Another excellent video.
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It doesn't strike you as odd that this Feminist did not, at least in this video, advocate for any feminist causes ?
She strikes me as the token Democrat or Atheist on Fox News... 'sure you can disagree with us, just don't do it too good'.
SpaceFrawg you weren't watching. In any event she's no token.....she's far more educated and reasonable IMO than any feminist I've seen.
*****
I did watch the entire video, maybe I missed it, could you give me the time stamp where she advocates for feminist causes ?
SpaceFrawg 3:12 3:36 Actually 312 right to about 4 minutes.
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What is your interpretation of that segment of the video, specifically what change was she advocating for ?
It seems to me that in that segment she was, as she often does, pushing the message that Feminism has achieved it's goals... maybe she thinks it has and that is what's confusing me. If not, then it seems to me, instead of just poo pooing the SJW type of feminism, she would also offer alternative issues that need addressing instead of this 'we did it' message.
Great advice thank you. One must always think for oneself and examine any claim with integrity and using official statistics and definitions of crime, not any other methodology.
Wow, that was an excellent video. Subscribed!
To male students: if she has dyed hair, if she wears spectacles and has the figure of a walrus, run away!
I recently handed in my bachelor thesis, on female power/authority in gender politics. Essentially, I'm trying to introduce an anti-feminist perspective.
Got Thoroughly trashed by:
-My feminist supervisor
-My feminist Opponent
-My feminist examiner.
To be fair, some of this criticism was warranted. Still, I do feel that the system is somewhat biased..
I take political science in Uppsala, Sweden.
I wish I had gotten this advice before starting university...for my first two years I wasted a lot of time trying to make myself seem acceptable to feminists, and even wrote an essay on how terribly privileged I am.
I am glad I recently graduated from the University of Toronto, early there enough not to have this shit being what it is right now and with a prof that taught me how to actually be critical and skeptical.
And this whole safe space thing is going on with real world politics, and religious politics too. So much for discussing ideas but instead snuffing them out.
Trigger warnings, othering, microaggressions, male privilege, mansplaining, and safe spaces are all goodthink. We need these concepts for the upsub of the prole, keeping them free of crimethink antebecoming unperson. Frankwise I think some of these oldspeakers could benefit from a little joycamp and time in Room 101, eh comrades?
"How to survive the wacky gender politics on campus"
Ignore women altogether unless absolutely needed, i.e. group work and such. The less you interact with them, the less you can be blamed for.
The one problem with that is that feminists would say you're avoiding them because you're a misogynist. You can't win with them.
DoomRulz
A more realistic rule would be to take note of the 'feminists' and ignore them entirely, all whilst living a normal life alongside the women who are there for the same reason you are.
Feminists =/= all women, thankfully...
DoomRulz I'd say just treat people like people. Avoid the ideologues who are so absorbed in self-righteousness that they can only see their world view. Realize that, though universities are the crazy "feminist" breeding grounds, they are still in the vast minority to generally sane students.
It's quite literally like those vegan jokes. You'll know them when you see (hear) them.
fux yews 10% of the M&Ms in this bowl are laced with cyanide. Are you going to eat ANY M&Ms from that bowl?
Mr Bones
Well lets put it this way..
This video is of a woman talking. If women should all be thrown in together (as a bowl of m&ms) then why would you take the chance to listen to her in the first place?
As "that guy" in colleges who won't bend who will stand up for what he believes in you are the activist worst enemy and I have advice.Keep it up. Stand by your right to think the way you do. And by doing that you'd find so many others that agree with you they just needed someone vocal to get behind.
Thank you for your video. Your message about feminists of the past fought hard for the status they have today strikes a cord. Today's feminists are destroying what past feminists fought so hard for.
Ahhh the thorn in feminists' side.
FUCK IDENTIY POLITICS!
The fact that so many people, particularly feminists, won't give CHS a chance because she works for a feee-market leaning conservative think tank really sucks.
Let me be totally clear, I think free-market leaning conservative think tanks are wrong about fscal policy, But, I think AEI has made invaluable contributions to good debate by giving Christina Hoff Sommers a fiorum and by offering Ayaan Hrsi Ali a job when no liberal think tank would do so. And I've looked all over the internet and no one does half as good a job of cataloging abuse and coruption in law enforcement as the CATO institute.
If you focus on identity, all you will see is enemies on the other side of the hill.
If you focus on issues, allies abound.