'Power' move by male students ruffles University of Chicago

BinaryShadow · 2009-05-29T11:50:34+00:00

"I'm not sure we really need another student organization that focuses on pre-professional development for men," Pan said, noting that, in just the area of business, there were five or six students groups that were gender-neutral.

I see that feminists are starting to see what men have been seeing all along. Why do we need gender-specific (100% women until now) groups when there are gender-neutral groups that do the same thing? If these women truly believe that the gender-neutral groups will provide the same benefits to men as the men's group, then they should fight to remove the women's groups as well.

catlebrity · 2009-05-28T17:13:10+00:00

It would appear that the pendulum has swung...those in power now oppose the efforts of a minority from achieving parity.

BestServedCold · 2009-05-28T16:32:46+00:00

"I'm not sure we really need another student organization that focuses on pre-professional development for men," Pan said, noting that, in just the area of business, there were five or six students groups that were gender-neutral.

Similarly, Ali Feenstra, a third-year student and a member of the Feminist Majority, questioned Men in Power's utility.

"It's like starting 'white men in business' -- there's not really any purpose," she said.

I would tell these two young ladies that since they see no need for the group, they're free not to join. Since other people HAVE joined, clearly SOME people DO see a need. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they weren't implying that the group itself shouldn't exist ... since that would be outrageously misandrist and ignorant.

etherspirit · 2009-05-30T07:47:17+00:00

Despite the feminist characterizations, I don't think this is comparable to people starting a white pride group on campus.

PierceHarlan · 2009-05-29T14:02:36+00:00

For me, by far the most important lesson from this article is this: the complainers are upset over the very idea that men believe that they, as a group, need any help. They don't bother to try to refute the irrefutable specific problems that males as a group face. Their "evidence" in support of their complaint is that white men are dominant in business, while completely ignoring all the ways that males, including white males, as a group, are lagging behind women. You would think the college enrollment asymmetry would be the most glaring example to these college students but they don't see it.

That is our hurdle, gentlemen. It is very easy for women to point to the men at the top to support their assertion that men don't need help; and even easier for them to completely ignore all the men at the bottom.

My advice: we need to hammer on the specific injustices men, as a class, suffer.

satertek · 2009-05-28T19:01:40+00:00

That could have chosen a name that wouldn't so easily be misconstrued as misogynistic.

Title	'Power' move by male students ruffles University of Chicago
Author	eyeofthestorm
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Date	May 28, 2009 4:19 PM UTC (17 years ago)
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