I don’t recall whether my uni had women’s study courses. I did take a Women in Art History course, though. It was taught by a woman, but she was bizarrely uptight. I’m sorry, if you can’t say the words “rape” or “vagina” aloud without blushing and stuttering, maaaybe you shouldn’t be teaching a course focusing on people like Artemisia Gentileschi and Georgia O’Keefe? Just a thought?

it’s not like it was scarring in any sort of giant sense, but I just sort of find it amazing to look back at and marvel at my lack-of-reaction …

sorry for the lack of response and it’s lack-of-relevance to the focus of this post, yo. your description of your summer employment just struck a chord ….

Then I went a fourth time, just to be sure and I hear “uh-oh! all your art credits are in the applied arts. You’ll need a fine arts course” add that to needing one honors course and there being an honors ethnomusicology course but no honors physics courses, and there I am, sputtering in outrage because this clearly unreasonable man expects me to hear the difference between 3/4 time and 4/4 time just by listening. If I had those talents, I’d play a fucking instrument. Give me my C and let me go home.

True. I was a physics major and it was the ethnomusicology class that had me tearing my hair out. “I ddooonnnn’tttt wwaaannnnnttttt ttoooo beeeee heeeereeeee!”

I was a physics major too and I had to take an honors seminar every other semester for my scholorship. There wasn’t much in the way of choice on those, so sometimes I just got stuck with whatever fit into my schedule that semester. I don’t remember the course title, but I had one once that dealt with a relationship between genetics and music. We read ‘The Goldbug Variations’ and discussed how genetic sequences could be used to write music. The project for the semester was to choose a particular genetic sequence and compose a musical score from it. And while the premise may sound interesting (and it could have been), it was a horrible, horrible class.

It’s really surprising how many of these people honestly seem to believe they got where they are all on their own, or who think all progress should stop once they’ve gotten what they want.

She’s not just bitching about the humanities, she’s also an officer in her school chapter of NeW, the Network of Enlightened women, which appears to be some sort junior Independent Women’s Forum type club. I would imagine that they consider themselves enlightened because they totally see past all this feminist claptrap.

From thier “about” page:

The mission of NeW is to foster the education and leadership skills of conservative university women.

…Many NeW chapters engage in activities in addition to meeting as a book club. NeW chapters have hosted speakers and debates to counter The Vagina Monologues. NeW chapters have held movie nights, dinners and parties.

It’s also been featured in not one but two Mallard Fillmore comics. Whoohoo!

Whatever she joined the club for, she’s clearly absorbed the junior anti-feminist mindset. Not a single argument in that article was original – someone’s been feeding her this stuff.

You don’t choose something with that kind of a workload if you’re just at college to get your MRS degree.

Yes, there might be some real antifeminism there, but what I mostly see is an engineering major deriding the humanities, and someone trying to play the gadfly in the campus newspaper. At the end of the day, she can still be found in the computer lab cranking out code instead of babies (at the prime breeding age of 18, no less), blissfully oblivious to the women who made it possible for her to be there.

As a side note, I’ve never had a guy complain that I was deconstructing his patriarchy by opening the door for him. Maybe they’re also just glad someone is being nice?