The Feminist Steroid Scandal in Academia: 
Time to pull the feeding tube 

Curtis Dahlgren
04/07/05

"We live in strange, strange times . . . An entire era - call it the "New Deal-Great Society Epoch" - is drawing to its inevitable conclusion. And those who draw power and wealth from the decaying Welfare State are marshalling their forces for a life-and-death defensive struggle." - Rush Limbaugh

STRANGE INDEED! The Society of Professional Journalists, at their recent convention, took a vote on the proposition "Journalists should cover both sides of an issue" and this proposition FAILED (true to the tradition of Pravda and the Third Reich)! And it only gets "curiouser and curiouser" when checking out the "vital signs" of Academia and the judicial system. 

When a judge's mind is made up, he does not want to be bothered with listening to 'BOTH SIDES' of a case any more than our "Professional Journalists." Terri Schindler can testify to that! And while it took decades for the courts to get the concept of "one man, one vote" right, the "Mainstream Courts" now believe in the concept that "One vote by one Judge" can trump all of the people, all of the time. "Never mind state constitutions or what the U.S. Constitution says about the state constitutions; we've just going to do it OUR way, and you can like it or lump it!"

As for our learned "public servants" in the colleges and universities, they testify out of their own mouths that they do not want to hear both sides, and they will even hold their breath until they turn blue in the attempt to "shield" their young Comrades from having to be confused by the "other side" of the story. They don't even say 2 + 2 = 5; they just say, "The answer is 5 and you don't even need to know the rest of the equation!" With 90 to 95 percent of the professors on the liberal side - admittedly! - who's going to challenge them? The answer will always be "5"!

JUST FOR THE RECORD, Harvard President Larry Summers - concluding the speech that made Miss Hopkins breathless and "physically ill" - said: "I will have served my purpose if I have provoked thought on this question and provoked the marshalling of evidence to contradict what I have said."

BUT OH NOOOOOOO! On certain select issues, there is now such a thing as TOO MUCH "academic freedom," TOO MUCH thought, and TOO MUCH INFORMATION - if it upsets the emotionally-based Conventional "Wisdoms" of the college Establishment. What is really desired is an emphasis on issues and information that can be CONTROLLED AND MANIPULATED! The college feminazis are flexing their steroid-enhanced muscles!

The "Coalition for an Anti-Sexist Harvard" [CASH] recently marched on a faculty meeting chanting, "Racist, sexist, anti-gay! Larry Summers, you must pay!" It's time for the taxpayers to pull the feeding tube to these robot/student organizations and their wealthy "professors"!

IMAGINE THE CHUTZPAH OF SOMEONE WONDERING IF THE TWO GENDERS ARE BORN "DIFFERENT"! 

The very thought that the genders are different sometimes leaves me breathless too - and I'm not even on the same side of the argument as Miss Hopkins! But let's take a deep breath and THINK for a change:

I'm not going to make the mistake Reggie White made by throwing out too many good examples of fact-based stereotypes all at once, but let's focus on just one example:

Ask ten men "Which way is north?" and then ask ten women which way north is. An easy majority of men will be able to tell you, and a large majority of women will say "I don't know" and/or look at you as if it's a stupid question. Just provoking thought, you know, but could this POSSIBLY have something significant to say about women's aptitude and/or interest in math and science?

Just as various ethnicities, nationalities, and "Professions" have their "quirks" (for lack of a better word), they also have their "strengths" (for lack of a better word); likewise the genders!

That the genders react differently to the same circumstances is inarguable. A front-page headline in the March 20, 05 Chicago Tribune reads: "Female GIs hard hit by war syndrome; VA study hopes to find out why"! According to the story, GI Janes from the Iraq war are suffering much more from post-traumatic stress disorder than GI Joes. One female who served behind the lines said that long hours of duty and appalling living conditions broke her spirit. Meanwhile, there are male amputees who can't wait to get back to Iraq. Breath-taking, isn't it?

I would surmise that the VA "study" may find that, by nature, females are better at nurturing than "warrioring," but for me to suggest that would be a gross offense to someone out there somewhere, so I won't even suggest it! I didn't do it.

AN UNAPOLOGETIC DISCLAIMER - to that someone out there who only wants to hear ONE SIDE and might be offended by this column:

You may say that it's easy for me to theorize and be glib when "you've never suffered sexism or racism or anti-gay ism" yourself. WELL, just a cotton-pickin' minute there. 

My ethnic roots are in the Swedish Vikings who are mercilessly bullied by the Norwegian Vikings (while the Norsk Vikings sailed west, the Swedish Vikes retraced their roots back along European rivers to deal in commerce toward the south and east). Anyway, I think the Swedish conservatives all came to America, and that the Norwegian liberals all came to America - which makes it all the worse.

My father and I were grabbing a bite to eat one day in a diner in a nearby "Norwegian" town. After one of the locals at the counter chatted with us for awhile, he asked my dad what our name was and, when my dad told him, the old Norwegian thought for a minute and then he says, "Is that Norwegian or Swede?" 

My dad said 'Swede' and the old man thought for a minute again, and then he says, "Well, there are a few good Swedes"! My dad and I laughed, but he was dead serious, and thought he was being generous to a fault. Point is: "racism" and other forms of "oppression" are all relative. 

The GI Jane who thought that her living conditions in Iraq were "appalling" just hadn't seen enough of the world. Academics who cry wolf about "academic freedom" every time someone breaks out of their strait jacket - and expresses himself in a way that is contrary to the speech codes of the Establishment - haven't seen enough of REAL totalitarianism to know what they're talking about. 

Judges who kiss off whole states or whole regions will have no one to blame but themselves for the rising tide of resentment. Academic institutions that accept the false premise of "sexism" or "racism," dumbing down the curricula and apologizing for "potential" offenses, will have no one to blame but themselves when the taxpayer revolt comes.

It's time to pull the feeding tubes (Pell Grants, etc.). The male students are already starting to abandon traditional four-year institutions for other forms of education. "Co-eds" far outnumber the male students.

And feminists who get so emotionally wrought over hearing a politically incorrect theory (biology teacher or no biology teacher) will have no one to blame but themselves if they "can't breathe" and turn blue. 

Personally, I wouldn't want to live that way! Pull the plug.



Curtis Dahlgren