I recently got into a chat about college with some female friends and they were talking about their college experience and how they enjoyed classes so much, and it inspired learning and growth.

In one of my degrees, I actually had several classes with two of these women. They were liberal arts classes, so not my major, but you had to take a couple of electives outside your specific field of study at my former college (during undergrad).

Anyway, they kept talking about these two professors and what was taught in the classes. It was clear they felt engaged during these classes.

I felt the complete opposite. Totally disengaged, disenchanted and distanced from what I felt when truely learning about complex topics.

Then it suddenly clicked. Those classes were laced with patriarchal theory, intersectionality, talk of oppression that wasn’t really oppression, and all had a conclusion-to-theory approach to viewing the world. An underlying sense of misandry was the standard. It was feminist activism taught through a more legitimate format.

Having always revered intellectuals, and being young (and naive), I never questioned it. I assumed the “academics” were acting in good faith.

Anyway, I thought I’d just express this experience to get it off my chest (still have a bit of resentment about being taught harmful things by “legitimate” academics tbh), and also see if anyone else had a similar experience. When I talk about it in my circles, where most come from academia, it makes them uneasy to talk about. So…. Reddit :)

So, what was your experience of college with respect to undercurrents of misandry?