My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester

[diebitter]

You just gotta use OOT as a case study if you're exploring 'male attitudes to women' and suchlike. PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!

[Georgia Avenue]

I too a womens studies course once. I got 0 dirty looks (and this was in the mid-90s too, PC Ground Zero...) So you'll be OK on that front.

This class sounds a lot more substantial than the Intro type class I was in, but even so, watch out for BS. Take notes and re-read the prof's opinions outside of class. You may not have the cajones to debate the BS in class, just make sure that you make up your own mind. Ideally you should call everyone on their mistakes and assumptions, but I know I didn't have the guts most of the time.

That class was one of the reasons I dropped out of school the first time...but I was immature and hated the idea that professors were "brainwashing" the students, when in actuality the students didn't pay attention enough to get brainwashed.

Also:
TTIWWP.

[WDC]

I took a similar class my last year of law school. The only guy and about 15 3rd year law school women (almost all of whom I knew). The other students were fine with me being there and most understood that i was not the run of the mill male chauvinist pig but the two dyke bitch professors who taught it went out of their way to make my life miserable. They were so obvious about it that the other students went to the Dean to complain.

The professors were actually reprimanded for making the class a 'hostile environment".

If you can roll with the punches go for it.

[diebitter]

I don't understand why you wanna question the BS. You do realise the easiest way to get good grades is vomit back the profs own attitudes/prejudices mostly undigested. All this arguing is BS unless you're really interested in getting to the heart of a subject, and really understanding it.

Do indeed do you're own thinking though.

[Georgia Avenue]

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I don't understand why you wanna question the BS. You do realise the easiest way to get good grades is vomit back the profs own attitudes/prejudices mostly undigested.


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And we all know that good grades leads to a good job and adequate money and a spouse and procreation all of which is the key to "happiness"... Then when you're lying on your deathbed looking into the darkness behind the curtains and you say to yourself, "Wait, what is really going on around here?" you hopefully will remember one of the half-truths and solipsisms you were forced to regurgitate in college. "Something about deconstruction..." you'll say, "...or like, otherness?" [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[diebitter]

Not me.

I'll be thinking about, and hopefully be with, my family. And maybe be glad I was able to provide a great upbringing and a good family home for my kids cos I worked hard AND used my head and played the system to get ahead.

[RacersEdge]

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So I'm trying to get an internship for next semester and for it I need to have Wednesdays free. As a result, most of my courses are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I'm going to take one class on Wednesday nights just so that I don't have 10 hours of straight classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The course is in the Women and Gender Studies program, is entititled "Women and the Law" and has the following course description:

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This course will introduce students to the law of sex discrimination and women's rights, with particular emphasis on issues of employment discrimination (including sexual harassment), violence against women, marriage and divorce law, and reproductive and abortion rights. It will consider the assumptions and biases that have shaped the law in these areas, tracing the historical development of constitutional and statutory protection for women's rights, and exploring feminist and liberal critiques of the current state of the law. Finally, while the course's primary focus will be on American law, it will also introduce students to other countries; approaches to rape law and abortion rights, comparing and contrasting the assumptions about women that underlie different legal systems.

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Should I just accept the fact that I will spend the majority of this class getting told that I'm a miserable chauvinist piece of [censored], or do you think that I'll be able to sit in the back and just cruise through unnoticed?

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No, just go in there and rip apart their little theories...lol.

[Felix_Nietsche]

Wear a wire to every class.
When your teacher tries to flunk you, you will have the evidence.
After you get your final grade, you can do an exposé.
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LOL............this advice actually has merit.
The man-haters that teach these classes range from the mild man haters to the raving lunatic man-haters that will use their power to bully/flunk you.

On a side note, I think these PC classes are 100% bull****. Can't you take a REAL class that actually makes you more marketable and that may give you knowledge to help you in your future career?

[Cancuk]

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Borrow this guy's sign.

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Awesome.

I would have a hard time putting up with all the bs that your going to see in that class and not argue it. If you confront it in a constructive way that creates good class debate, it should go over allright.

[EMcWilliams]

Im taking a course now with a liberal radical feminist as the teacher. The class is actually a business writing class but all we do is discuss politics, usually her bashing Men, Bush and upping women. While I hate that I am not learning anything, I do enjoy bashing her back and getting her caught in lies and such, and re-affirming male superiority.

And as for a topic on a research paper: The stupidest male alive is still 100x smarter than the smartest female.