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11-11-2005, 01:59 AM
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My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
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:
[ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] 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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#2
11-11-2005, 02:01 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
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11-11-2005, 02:03 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
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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]... [/ QUOTE ] Fight your corner! Man, this sounds about the most fun you can get in a class (except cute professor boya's maybe).
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#4
11-11-2005, 02:04 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
Also, wear this shirt to class. (Site may be nsfw)
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11-11-2005, 02:05 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
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Also, wear this shirt to class. (Site may be nsfw) [/ QUOTE ] Man, that would be an AWESOME challenge. PoBoy, you could make serious money with this one...
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#6
11-11-2005, 02:08 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
Unless TV is wrong the most likely result of this is that you will treated with hostility in class -mainly because most of these chicks are simply sublimating their desire to assume traditional/submissive gender roles- but out of class resulting in you getting more ass than a toilet seat.
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#7
11-11-2005, 02:09 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
I think that for enough money, I'd be up for it, so long as in addition to the money for the bet, you guys paid for the T-shirt and ball reattachment surgery after they get torn off by this group
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#8
11-11-2005, 02:13 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
Has anyone seen the hilarious movie 100 girls? There's a great speech in it that the hero delivers to his women's studies group.
Otherwise, I might pay you to read aloud my paper I wrote in philosophy class called "A Vindication of the Rights of Men"... the reaction to it would definitely be worth some cash...
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#9
11-11-2005, 02:17 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
Take the class. Argue a lot. Bring up that group of single fathers who have formed a group to protest custody laws, that should be interesting.
In one history class I took somehow those "stop snitching" tshirts came up and we had a whole big argument about the meaning of the slogan. I thought the slogan meant "bitch, if you tell anyone I sell crack here I'll kill you and your kids". Apparently that's not true, it means "I am a hardworking mother of two, do not talk to the police because I think the black community should air out our differences among ourselves and not rely on the state, which is controlled by white people and could never do anything positive for us." There was also some funny stuff said where one girl insisted that the mainstream black community doesnt want police coming into the "hood" (her words) and investigating and prosecuting crack dealers because black people think the police are racist, and the community sentiment echoed in the first paragraph should be the rule of thumb. Apparently crack is not that bad of a drug after all either, and crack dealers are just doing what they have to do because the man keeps them down. And the idea that the CIA brings cocaine into black neighborhoods is taken as total gospel, including by the professor. You don't need any reason or proof to think this though... just laugh at people who suggest it might not be true or who ask you to back it up. Another girl also assumed that I was not getting any financial aid to go to the school and was really rich (neither are true) and somehow was an evil person because of this. [censored] crazy kids. The school newspaper is full of laughs too.
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#10
11-11-2005, 02:17 AM
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Re: My Women and Gender Studies Course for next semester
just be open-minded about it
I took a WGST course in my second year - it was one of the easiest and most interesting courses out there it's not a male-bashing course - it's a course on the topics that you put in your OP although you'll get the odd radical feminist that may take it too far (there are radicalists in every facet of life) you'll probably learn a lot - that is if you want to man there are a lot of misogynistic people on these boards (not talking about you OP)
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