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...Farce of Feminism” (Editorial, Oct. 16, 2001), I do not doubt the anti-feminist passion that Rebecca E. Rubins ’05 used to fuel her Editor’s Notebook, but I have the distinct feeling she will be singing a different tune when she enters the working world...
Feminism also creates a double standard for men and women, thus promoting the societal ills it supposedly opposes. Feminists laud women-only discussion groups, dance teams and drama clubs, but when men try to create or maintain similar men-only groups, they are accused of discrimination. The feminist movement operates on the principle that past wrongs done to women can be remedied by preferential treatment now—that two wrongs will make a right. This reverse discrimination is not only unethical but also belies their alleged opposition to judgment or exclusion based on gender alone...
This is particularly evident in school, where the “feminist aspect” of every subject is now played up, thereby bringing social activism into the classroom where it only detracts from the learning process. English teachers ask students to apply feminist criticism to books with no semblance of a feminist outlook. History textbooks try to compensate for the fact that women were in the kitchen for most of recorded time by highlighting the life of one particular female or another regardless of how little she matters to history. Other programs, such as Take Your Daughter to Work...
...years. Perched atop a stool in the basement of Loker Commons, Gross recollected her own years as a college student at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and how she only got into radio when a housemate’s girlfriend gave up her spot at the feminist radio station. Fired from her first job as a teacher, Gross subsequently began her job as an interviewer for WHYY, a local station in Philadephia. As a 24 year-old interviewing subjects often twice her age, Gross coined her trademark style from drawing her questions from pure curiosity and lack...
...those who already knew and loved the place, it was an inescapable distraction to newcomers wishing to browse. Some people thought the store should have been closed after Cairnie’s death, while those who had been excluded before came back with threats. Solano’s feminist views also made things harder, especially because the literary industry was still run almost entirely by men. “It was a rocky but exciting road. I punched around a lot—it was good training,” said Solano...