Is this a fair assessment of Women's Studies?

Question

http://www.iwf.org/campus/show/19136.html

Answer 1

Yes. But so whay?

Men have been busy saying that feminism is not about equality, for the last 10+ years. When are men going to do something about it?

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Ladies: Be a first class woman, not a second rate feminist.

Answer 2

Carrie Lukas has always been a good critic of feminism, as can be seen here:

http://www.iwf.org/news/show/19778.html

Women's Studies has absolutely no use if you're looking for a paying job other than that of a teacher in WS. While studying about men's achievements in school, we never put down women, but doodlebugjim tells me that while teaching women's achievements, they also put half-baked political ideologies about men in the students' heads in WS classes. He took two Women's studies modules, so he should know.

My opinion on the assessment:

She gets a lot of things right. I have heard people say WS graduates keep rambling about an imagined patriarchy in the west, how they have to fight for women and other stuff. It's more like a NOW recruitment regime than a degree that helps your future life and career.

I mean, in short, that they have misandrist stuff in WS that poison people's minds and WS is not for someone who wants a good career as a respected person rather than be denounced and ridioculed as a cranky misandrist militant.

Pretty strong words, but that's how it is.

Answer 3

Honestly about half way through I got bored with it.

It's not a fair assessment at all because like anything else in this world, some things aren't always the same.

I took one semester of Women's Studies. My professor was a middle-aged, married woman with 3 kids. We didn't do diaries, we didn't do meditation, we didn't do any of this namby-pamby wishy-washy new aged teaching stuff. We talked about the facts and only the facts. We debated and discussed male issues and female issues. We studied our culture and statistically how it has treated women through the years. No one burned bras, patriarchy and oppression weren't chanted throughout the classroom and lesbianism wasn't preached as the only way to love someone. It was a civil and healthy learning environment were we communicated, deliberated and cooperated.

Oh and it wasn't dominated by females either. I'd say it was a 27:23 female to male ratio.

Answer 4

Hard to go past an article written by someone on 'the board'  of a neocon 'womens foundation' supported by the Goldwater Foundation.

They're always so 'balanced'.

Cheers :-)