The following comes from a January 12 College Fix article by Elias Atienza:
Student activists and Women’s and Gender Studies professors at a top-ranked public university in California have banded together to demand administrators launch a “queer studies” program, saying it would address the needs of “invalidated” queer students on campus and make the school more “inclusive.”
The Women’s and Gender Studies department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo has called on the administration to incorporate a queer studies minor, suggesting it’s the “just” thing to do, and student activists told peers who disagreed with them on the need for the program to “check their privilege.”
All of this started back in early November when a student activist group calling itself “SLO Solidarity” sprang to life in the wake of the student protests that engulfed campuses nationwide last fall over claims universities are bastions of institutionalized racism.
In December, the Women’s and Gender Studies Department came out in support of the group in a public letter stating a “queer studies” program would be “integral to the creation of a more diverse, inclusive, equitable and just Cal Poly.”
Among SLO Solidarity’s 41 demands are calls for the creation of a queer studies minor and a “Women’s, Gender, & Queer Studies” major, as well as the hiring of more professors to teach such subjects.
This is ridiculous! Perhaps, Cal Poly, SLO adminstrators and faculty should consider a implementing a Heterosexual Studies Major, a Christian Studies Major or, better yet, a Catholic Studies Major. I am sure there are Christian students at the school who do not feel included. When I was a student at a CSU campus, I learned quickly to keep my Catholic beliefs to myself after being criticized by students and a couple of professors for my Catholic faith.
I’d be afraid of the heterosexual studies but the other two are good ideas.
It has been my experience that nearly all college courses with the word “studies” in the title, are garbage. Either poor construction of curriculum, erroneous information, biased instruction or a simple intention to deceive or bash somebody. Certainly not objective and very seldom taught by anyone possessed of legitimate credentials, witness some of the loonies vending “studies” in the past. So ” Queer ” students feel lonely or disconnected? Ah well, too bad, then stop practicing perversion, you’ll feel better.
And also, Anonymous, what does a degree in black, hispanic, womyn’s or queer studies equip you to do? Where are the employment opportunities?
None. All one is equipped to do is to take graduate degrees in the same worthless “studies”. Why should taxpayers bear the costs of this idiocy?
I wrote that comment, but forgot to put my name on it. Just didn’t want to be confused with others calling themselves “Anonymous.” Agreed, “studies” have little or no value and I have never seen an employment ad for any job containing the word “studies.” Just a tactic to give a Lefty Loonie a cheap degree that may qualify you to work in fast food.
Is there a Men’s Studies Program there?
If Not – Why Not?
If So – does it deal with MISANDRY (Hatred of Men & Boys, Masculinity & Normal Heterosexuality) or just dish it out?
*BTW – I have been stalked and retaliated against by the campus thought police in academentia (UC-BS in Goleta Ca) for daring to recommend establishing of Men’s Studies / Commissions for Men – to act in Equal Weight to the Existing Commissions for ‘Women’ – as in Radical Gender Feminist Misandrist Womyn.
Oh – and for daring oppose their hateful violent trashing of those designated in Student Newspapers as “Pigs”
“…many students, unfortunately, do not feel included in our campus community.”
Unfortunately, at times, one may not ‘feel’ married, but still be married. One may not feel like a parent, but, in reality, have children for whom they are responsible. One may not feel like going to work, but the reality is the afflicted one will eventually be fired if they do not show up.
Can we please, teach children and adults, thank you, that feelings, while important, are not facts. Yes, we must deal with our feelings and take them into account, but a society run on feelings is a teen drama.
You have misunderstood.
Ann— 100% on point. You knocked it out of the park. Today too many people (and I this is endemic among young people) believe things are true only to the extent that they match their own feelings and personal experiences. One can get a glimpse of this thinking by watching TV “man-on-the street” interviews. If they can’t correctly answer a question which any basically informed person could, they claim: “But that happened before I was born!!”. As if nothing is true, and should be known as such, just because one hasn’t personally experienced it.
Michael- agree completely with your comments. I am of Italian Heritage and had a couple of so-called university caliber students try to guilt me about Christopher Columbus and various Italian Popes. When I countered that the ancient Inca tribes were very brutal to their own people and their enemies prior to the arrival of the Europeans, these so-called open-minded students screamed at me. The professor did not take action to maintain a proper academic decorum in the class.
Probably Not in the course syllabus:
“Gonorrhoea is at risk of becoming an untreatable disease due to the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance,”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/superbug-and-the-silver-bullet?
John Robson’s solution in the National Post article to the antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is monogamy. He quotes P.J. O’Rourke who wrote over 20 years ago, “the sexual revolution is over and the microbes won.”
Someone else once said, “God always forgives, people sometimes, nature-never.” Wise words to remember.
The new superbug gene MCR-1 found in our food is a different and more universal problem. The article recommends less antibiotics in animals and as humans, we can prevent the spread of disease with…
It would be much better, for all universities to end this kind of “student activist baloney!” It is extremely destructive, and many activists are also sadly immoral, with nothing to offer the world– except violence, immorality, and destruction! Universities all should return to the traditional education system, with the liberal arts and sciences as the main focus– and educate all students well, treating all with dignity and respect! Students should obey the rules, study hard, and be serious about learning! With a very good education, students can then be well-equipped to go out into the world, and help humanity, in various ways!
with good behavior. Excellent post, Michael, and it was Fr. Paul Marx — God rest his soul — of Human Life International who used to say the quote you quoted. He said, “God forgives and man forgives, but nature never forgives.” I was blessed enough to hear him say it in person with my own ears.
Our tax dollars at work!
Anne T. Thank you for your posts. Fr. Marx – God give him eternal rest!
You are welcome, Bob. My post today, Jan. 14, at 9:03 am was in reply to Michael McDermott’s post on Jan 13 at 5:36 pm. I failed to click on the “reply” area. Sorry if there was any confusion.
By the way, while our precious university personnel and precious students are worrying about the survivability of “Queer Studies” on campus, the Religion of Peace is teaching an advance course on what is coming to Amerika next:
https://www.jpost.com/International/North-African-men-attempt-to-stone-transgender-women-in-German-city-441695
3 Muslim men attacked two transgendered women in Dortmund, Germany Jan. 9th, this news only now trickling out, and only appearing in the Jerusalem Post yesterday. Tolerance certainly to be re-defined in coming months and waves of “refugees”.
Aren’t all studies that are not “Polytechnic” at such a school “queer” studies?
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