Washington State students risk a failing grade in one course if they use any common descriptors professor considers “oppressive and hateful language.

badwig · 2015-08-30T20:36:41+00:00

Banning 'male' and 'female'? They have lost their minds.

Apellosine · 2015-08-30T22:18:02+00:00

Students are expected to "defer" to non-white students if they want to do well in the class? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

wisty · 2015-08-30T20:28:40+00:00

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SlashSero · 2015-08-30T23:08:58+00:00

“Women & Popular Culture” class

Honestly, anyone choosing to waste their money on a course like this deserves everything that is coming for them. They should rename it to practical communism.

Drakaris · 2015-08-31T10:52:21+00:00

Hugboxes, fucking hugboxes... They wanna turn these kids into "politically correct" pussies (yes, I said it...).

“Women & Popular Culture”

This has got to be a joke... What the hell is wrong with academia?!? How and why is this shit allowed at universities at all?

Electroverted · 2015-08-31T00:11:58+00:00

Women & Popular Culture Class

Yeesh! Sounds like the kind of class where, if you're a male, you could be Joss Whedon and never get above a B.

blueoak9 · 2015-08-31T00:19:56+00:00

"Selena Lester Breikss’ “Women & Popular Culture” class, "

They deserve for even taking such a class in the first place.

Adrewmc · 2015-08-31T11:00:03+00:00

“The socio-legal production of migrant illegality works to systematically dehumanize and exploit these brown bodies for their labor,” Fowler continued.

'Brown bodies' isn't a term I'd call non-discriminatory.

The fact remains that an 'illegal alien' is a perfectly acceptable term for aliens, people from another country, that are here illegally. It's not a race issue, you can be from a completely white heritage and still be an illegal alien. If you believe any different you are wrong, there isn't a race connotation to the term; there is only your own preconception of racism.

And 'undocumented migrant' is not a synonym for 'illegal alien', you may very well be documented, you are an illegal alien when your student visa expires and you are documented. I would say the former not the latter has more of a connotation of the race of the person.

This is higher education to outright ban a term that is recognizable and explains exactly what you are talking about is unacceptable. You can't go along and force your values on your student and then pretend you are not.

You can't teach someone anything by stating that you are right, you must prove that you are right. You go to a physics class and use a equation to determine the trajectory of a ball, and then you use forces on a ball to prove that the equation is in fact accurate. It's no different here. You can't fight the observation it is what it is. If you are a person in a country illegally you are in fact an illegal alien, that's all there is to it. What's next? Can't say 'convict' because that imply they are black you better better say 'recently incarcerated person'.

"It is notable that one of the syllabus provisions warns: ‘The subject material of this class is sensitive and controversial. Strive to keep an open mind.’ How are students supposed to approach these sensitive and controversial materials at all, let alone to keep an open mind, if they have to fear that a misconstrued statement, or one that unreasonably offends a classmate will lead to a grade reduction or even removal from class?"

At least the author understand this.

caius_iulius_caesar · 2015-08-30T19:43:01+00:00

The popsicle the schoolgirls were nursing on during their appearance on the Gong Show was shaped like a glorious phallus. As if they were using fellatio to summon their dearly missed patriarchal figure.

mvrk10256 · 2015-08-31T18:34:07+00:00

Just another reason I am glad I went into engineering.

Electricity don't give a fuck about race, religion, color, gender, or whatever else...

Spoonwood · 2015-08-31T02:04:27+00:00

If someone calls me a "man" I feel pressured to live up the ideal notion of an adult. I almost feel like I should be a "real man".

If someone calls me a "boy" I feel like someone who just plays around all day and is a good for nothing with respect to society.

I actually prefer male because that sounds like I'm a human being and there is no prejudement as to how I am or how I should be.

I find male, less offensive than the other terms.

my_name_is_gato · 2015-08-31T08:24:19+00:00

I took a gender studies course in undergrad because I wanted to see a feminist perspective. The professor was a staunch feminist that accused me of using my privilege whenever I commented in response to they typical drivel that the women in class spouted. She later stated my low grade was for lack of participation. The only other male in that class stormed out when she called his military experience nothing more than "penis waving bravado."

I talked to her after course and asked her if there were any male issues that she thought needed attention, such as the draft. She agreed there was, but that she wouldn't support it because it wasn't feminism's job to help men at all. MRA since. (FWIW, after law school, she offered to hire me as a professor. As much as I wanted to teach, I would never agree to assist her in spewing more filth upon the world.

2015-08-30T23:03:06+00:00

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2015-08-31T09:16:48+00:00

Higher education my ass!

sylect · 2015-08-31T15:10:29+00:00

As a resident of Washington state, this doesn't surprise me at all. Still ashamed

whambulance_man · 2015-08-31T14:44:39+00:00

It is really too bad college is so expensive. I look very little like my ancestry, so I would love the chance to claim Hispanic in this class just to troll the absolute shit out of them.

5MC · 2015-08-31T03:37:10+00:00

Fucking cultural marxists man...

AugmentedFury · 2015-08-31T01:22:17+00:00

"Women & Popular Culture"

.... .... ....

Lol.

TheRedThrowAwayPill · 2015-09-01T08:03:29+00:00

Don't take this course.

Done.

Title	Washington State students risk a failing grade in one course if they use any common descriptors professor considers “oppressive and hateful language.
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Date	August 30, 2015 7:25 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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