Letters to the Editor
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WS is BS
so long as it continues to perpetuate a political agenda that excommunicates unbelievers or anyone who doesn't toe the party line. The honesty of a real academic discipline just isn't there. For example, among other liberal disciplines such as history, you have Marxists, conservatives, revisionists, intellectualists, materialists, Weberites, etc, where advocates of different philospophical approaches coexist (mostly) in disagreements. That does not happen in Womyn's Studies. Frankly, it's crap.
I'll believe that feminism is dead when laws punishing men, especially in domestic cases, are repealed. In Massachusetts, for example, an unsubstantiated claim by a woman to the police that her ex-husband hit her will lead to a restraining order that directly impacts custody, visitation of children, the ability to obtain a firearms permit, job screening and further credibility in court. I said unsubstantiated. A 209A order may be issued without witnesses, physical proof, or even evidence the man was in the vicinity at the time of the assault, and cannot be appealed. That law didn't just get on the books by itself.
So, yeah, I'm all for gender equality, but not the inequality WS programs push for. I see them as similar to madrassas in educating the next feminist militants, and as toxic to society and reasoned discourse.