Letters to the Editor
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Huh?
"Research shows that fields in which students major have nothing to do with their first job after getting their college degree."
I'm guessing that few students who majored in Womyns' Studies were hired as engineers or accountants out of college.
You may be a good teacher, I'll give you respect for that. But the perception of the discipline on Main Street as being controlled by old-guard radicals didn't just spring fully grown from the head of Zeus (or Hera, I guess). The fact that WS claims itself a "discipline" by its nature politicizes it in a way that history, sociology and others are not. For example, as one poster here previously stated, nobody in WS suggests that there are limitations of any sort on women, whether they relate to leadership, work, family, or anything else (save perhaps Paglia, who considers herself a maverick and others consider outside the fold). Ideas like that are off the table to even consider, because of the tautological outlook of the field. It would no more be considered a valid topic of discussion in most WS departments than a Liberty University professor challenging the divinity of Christ. It ain't happening.
As a grad student I took a class taught by a WS-type feminist who taught as an historian--"Womens' History". It was a great class, and taught me quite a few things that broadened my understanding of the period as it related to women's social status. But when one embraces WS as a major, as something to specialize in for its own sake, the overall objectivity of the student has to be questioned.