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...films, which reflect the syllabus of an identically-titled course Hoberman is teaching this semester, document a cinematic culture of anxiety, shame, and fear, a zeitgeist born of the horrifying revelation of the Holocaust and the apocalyptic mood of the newly inaugurated atomic...
...weakness of its philosophy. The different ways of learning at first sounded quite appealing as a path out of lackluster academia, but like all academic fads ended up replacing orthodox restrictions with restrictions that were even more whimsical and limiting. Classes that didn’t state in their syllabus the goal of making a student a Science B-ian or a Moral Reasoning-itian couldn’t were cast...
According to the syllabus, for instance, in its fifth meeting, the course discusses menstruation: “We will discuss the social and cultural stigmatization of women’s menstrual cycles and the concept of women’s genitals as ‘dirty.’” If the FemSex gang is implying that stigmatization of menstruation exists at Harvard—that female undergraduates are shunned for five days or so each month—then I guess I’ve missed the red tents inside the Yard. Alternatively, if FemSex facilitators...
...another meeting outlined by the course syllabus, FemSex strives to help members become intimate with their genitals by encouraging them to look inside themselves with speculums and then report back. The experience of looking at her girlish parts aims to leave the student with a new sense of ownership over her genitalia. I suppose not all of us read Deenie as preteen girls—you know, that Judy Blume book that taught us it was okay that we touch ourselves—but did a Harvard undergraduate really need a roomful of other women to facilitate her revelation...
Judging from the syllabus and last week’s meeting, a woman thinking of taking FemSex would do better to spend her time and $15 course fee elsewhere. For instance, she might work on finding a boyfriend who wishes to bring her sexual pleasure in “female terms”—that shouldn’t be too hard, given how progressive most modern Harvard men are. Alternatively, visiting a psychiatrist to try to pinpoint the reason she feels the need to talk about her menstrual cycle with people she runs into on the street...