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Roberts, now a senior assistant dean and computer science professor at Stanford, says the Quad was culturally distinct from the rest of Harvard, housing more public school graduates, academics and feminists??as well as offering greater interaction between first-years and upperclass students due to their status as four-year Houses. He says that opposition to the plan on the Quad was nearly unanimous...
...exposed to feminism, she can’t say what might happen if feminism were not taught. So really, she’s just assuming that the genders are on an “equal footing.” Which, conveniently for her, means that the “feminists?? are to blame for holding women back. But this is simply her conjecture, nothing more...
...have said it better in 1974. Twenty-five years ago, that sentence would have been considered a forward-thinking position; today it is still far from reactionary. And without it, without the assumption that women and men would be equal if only the “feminists?? would leave us alone, her argument can’t exist. So in fact, what Rubins is unwittingly doing is throwing feminist analysis back at the feminists...
...feminists were to take a step back and view the current situation of women in this country objectively, they might realize that women no longer need interest groups, support networks, activism and doctored curriculae—that they, in fact, are better off without feminists?? supposed help. But that objective view would leave feminists without a viable raison d’etre, and so they continue to ignore, for example, the possibility that the average female college student walking through an activities fair might support women but not support feminism, that she might instead consider feminism a threat...