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...Professor Mary Daly asserted to the academic community last week that "the root of the mess in society is patriarchy." Turning away potential male students at the door with the words "you are not welcome here," Daly has decreed that no male students can enroll in her "Introduction to Feminist Ethics" course. Her contention is that their presence would constitute a distraction to female student engaged in emotional and intellectual feminist debates...
...These publications expose and criticize the destructive programs at the colleges--the sexual indoctrination, multicultural nonsense, feminist propaganda, and political radicalism...
...they make up 50 to 60 percent of the enrollment. Many have flocked to the course out of fear, reasoning that if the College requires them to take a history course, they might as well learn the history of something they already know--science--instead of studying international conflict, feminist history or politics in India...
Conservatives--and even some feminists--have been making the argument for years, most recently in books like What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us by Danielle Crittenden. But it's Wendy Shalit's debut book, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue (Free Press), that is currently bubbling in the public debate. The book has earned the neoconservative author an interview by Katie Couric on the Today show and inspired heated online debate, as well as a drubbing from many across the feminist spectrum...
When beautician Polly Tishun (Michael Kennedy '99) blooms from her stuttering shy-girl cocoon and becomes a sexy, successful presidential candidate, we not only see gender-bending acquire an occupational valence but also a post-feminist re-telling of the American teenager's Bildungsroman, embedded in a politicized pulp paradigm that we have not seen since the 60s (aka Celine Dion). Kennedy is fully aware of all the dimensions of his character but still manages to add symbolic layers even as he sheds tactile ones...