How many of you anti-feminists have a college degree?

Question

I'm just curious to see if theres a correlation between education level and feelings towards the women's movement.

Answer 1

"The Rio equality feminists?" I love that girl.

Anyway, it is said that educated people tend to have more egalitarian views, but I think it depends more on what they're studying and their personal values. So I doubt there's a correlation.

Answer 2

Well I am a Tutor at both Greenwich and UEA Universities in London with degrees in Computing and mathematical sciences among others, but that is unimportant in it self!

Because within my profession, you will Never see more ‘Educated Fools’

It so very hard to explain if you don’t know, how it is possible.

Again and again there is an observable phenomenon of people armed with degrees but without any real sense or what is referred to as common sense

Answer 3

Why would you presume that there is a correlation between education (or intelligence) and whether someone agrees or disagrees with your political views? It is precisely that attitude that turns people off from your views - and you personally - without ever giving them a hearing. "How many of you anti-feminists have a college degree?" My goodness, that sounds like Rush Limbaugh saying "How many of you black Obama supporters aren't gang members and welfare recipients!"

The hilarious thing is that modern feminism was only fully embraced by even our elite colleges and universities in the 1970s, and still has not trickled down into our less elite universities, and this is particularly so in parts of the country where more politically inclined and active people tend not to congregate. Persons such as yourself to do well to study the educational climate BEFORE the 1960s and OUTSIDE the elite universities.

Even better: even post - 1960s and in some of our more elite universities, people in a great many majors never encounter feminism or any of the other ideological or political views. If you major in philosophy, sociology, literature, psychology, international studies, law, political science, etc. you will encounter a good dose of it. But if you are earning your Ph.D. in chemistry, criminal justice, early childhood education, engineering or most other fields for that matter, you aren't going to encounter much Betty Friedan or Andrea Zworkin.

So the next time you try to find out how the other half - or more actually the other 90% - lives and thinks, please learn to respect them, their points of view, and their life experiences rather than talking down to them from your privileged positions in the academy.

Answer 4

I'm anti-feminist to an extent, not the Rio, equality feminists but the man hating crazy feminists. I only have my Associates so far, but I got that while serving in the Army and raising baby's.

Answer 5

BA in business administration from CSUN, 3.875 GPA

and I don't like feminism.

I have no problem with the idea of equal opportunity, but" the women's movement" ( always makes me think of a bowel movement) as you call it, is way too fanatical and paranoid for my liking.

Answer 6

I wouldn't consider myself really an anti-feminist, but I do think modern Feminism has gone too far. I have a masters degree.

Answer 7

The correlation I believe you are looking for is humanism follows rationality.  That makes sense.  Humanism is the rise above subjectivism and tyranny into rationality and democracy.  The less rational and more subjective or magical in cognition, the more likely one is to believe in inferiority / superiority / purity concepts and buy into intolerance of other's human rights and to follow Master / Slave moralities.  The more rational and objective in cognition, the more likely one is to be pluralistically tolerant and protective of other's universal human rights and follow principles of democracy. Also, anti-humanism anti-feminism wanes in correlation to rising level of social consciousness with protections for women's human rights emerging in levels above "traditional".

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Answer 8

I noticed that your question NEVER said that the anti-fems were unintelligent.  You could have been referring to the anti-fems as the ones you thought HAD gone to College.

How quickly they assumed that you were calling them stupid.  Wonder if that has been a recurring theme in their lives.

Today, many College degrees are nothing more than glorified trade schools, so I wouldn't expect to see a direct correlation, unless you included study in the liberal arts.

College SHOULD teach you to question EVERYTHING in life especially things that you read on the Internet.  By questioning traditions you can discover what your real opinion is and not what you were programmed to believe.

BTW, I asked a similar, non-biased question about anti- abortion ( pro-life) people and got the same, "I'm not stupid"  response.  It really does take some knowledge of anatomy to come to an intelligent decision on that issue, but I got bashed just the same.  Just wanted you to know that "I feel your pain."

Answer 9

How would there be a correlation between objecting to sexist laws and having a degree? I'm the only one in the family who doesn't have a degree but Ive traveled the world, bought and sold houses and trade futures for a living. Second highest earner out of eight, (cousins included).

EDIT, Know it all, yeah, most of these girls can only attempt to insult, there's never a thought out response.

Answer 10

So because I didn't go to college means that I am uneducated and dumb, thus making me an Anti-Feminist? How about the fact that I knew I was just going to get married and raise a family before I made the mistake of going to college and wasting my time and, not to mention, money. Don't you think it is smarter to know what you want in life and take it and not dilly dally your way there, getting yourself into major debt. I am so glad I didn't waste my early adulthood in college. I have a husband and a baby to show for it too.

Answer 11

What does having an advanced education have anything to do with recognizing the inequalities that exist within society?

No, I never went to college. I have learned more about society and many other things in the 10 years that I've been online than I did in all my school years combined. All it takes is to be able to read a newspaper or watch the news or read about it online and you'll see story after story of examples of biased laws or judgements, sexism, hypocrisy, double standards etc.. I don't think one needs a college degree to be able to see reality.

Answer 12

I'm graduating this year from undergrad, I also just got accepted into the University of Pennsylvania for graduate school.

Answer 13

I have a B.A. in Political Science.  I definitely agree women and men should have equal rights.  I sometimes get the impression that some feminists want men and women to be considered the same in all respects, which I think is wrong.  I believe that we naturally behave differently and tend to have different strengths and weaknesses.  I'm not saying one s*x is better than the other, just different.

Answer 14

Well..Seems like I'm the most idiotic here..Because all I have to my name is a GED.

But you go to over 30 different schools  before you turn 16 yrs old and see how badly you wanna quit after all that

( stepfather was an excon and we were always moving to avoid the cops)

I would like to go to college...But due to some legal issues I cannot. If i can ever get those fixed I will go. Though I'm not really sure what I would major in.