Women’s Studies and Terrorism
Freedom Isn’t Free
Each year, we observe Memorial Day — formerly Decoration Day, rooted in post-Civil War times — which officially became a federal holiday in 1971. What’s all the fuss?
Most people view Memorial Day as the official start of summer, a time to party. Given that US school children know more about American Idol and Al Gore’s global-warming propaganda than our Founding Fathers, such frivolity isn’t surprising. In fact, according to the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, US history began in 1877.
During this long weekend, it’s our duty to remember the men and women (mostly men) who gave their lives to make and keep America free. But, looking back is not enough. We also must look ahead to assess the strength and durability of our freedom, and question whether our current way of life — growing socialism, debt, deficit, illegal immigration, unemployment, and global governance — will sustain or sink it. This is the least we can do for our fallen soldiers, that their sacrifices not be in vain.
Freedom isn’t free — or an entitlement. Freedom is waning. Why? To use a simple metaphor, freedom is like physical fitness: achieving and maintaining it is difficult; losing it is easy. That’s why 63.1% of American adults are overweight or obese. Physical weakness is symptomatic of mental and emotional weakness — and the harbinger of a crumbling society.
Creative Interdisciplinary Thought
There are five major problems now facing America: economic instability, corrupt government, terrorism, cultural divisiveness, and the BP oil disaster. Do we have future leaders in the wings trained to deal with such challenges?
Females now account for 60%+ of college graduates, increasingly leaving males in the dust. Does this imbalance make America stronger? No society with uneducated males can remain strong and, therefore, free.
What are women studying? What problems can they solve? A growing number of them are enrolled in “women’s studies.” In fact, there are more than 900 such programs around the world. Consider how much time and money are being diverted to useless pursuit. “Gender diplomas” don’t train women to solve real business, technical, and security problems. Worse, they deepen the female victim mentality that endlessly expands Big Government.
Columbia University describes the benefits of its undergraduate program as follows:
Graduates leave the program well-prepared for future scholarly work in women’s and gender studies, but the degree also prepares students for careers and future training in law, public policy, social work, community organizing, journalism, medicine, and all those professions in which there is a need for critical and creative interdisciplinary thought.
Creative interdisciplinary thought? Impressive. Also, I’m pleased that “community organizing” is a skill Columbia University imparts to its graduates. It will come in handy to women hired to defeat terrorism, build new businesses, and fix engineering disasters.
Regardless of how many females major in women’s studies, now or in the future, these misandry mills cast a giant shadow over public policy, public opinion, and the legislative and judicial branches of state and federal governments.
Measure the strength of any country by its focus. What made America an exceptional leader in the world was its dedication to individual liberty, small government, entrepreneurial spirit, free enterprise, and physical security. That dedication has been replaced by political correctness.
President Calvin Coolidge, who shrunk our government and stimulated great prosperity, used to say that “the business of America is business.” That’s focus, and it works. Which women’s studies program teaches this principle? Steer your daughter away from this nonsense.
The NoNonsense Bottom Line
When terrorists choose where to strike, they seek weakness — on the borders, in the financial system, in the legal system, in the military, and in cultural unity. It’s no coincidence that, in the past 18 months, they’ve made three attempted (one successful) terrorist attacks in America.
There’s a strong correlation between terrorism and the growth of women’s studies programs, which engender weakness and victimhood. That should give all of us pause on Memorial Day.
About the Author
Marc H. Rudov, The NoNonsense Man®, is a globally known radio/TV personality, relationship coach, speaker, and author of 125+ articles and Under the Clitoral Hood: How to Crank Her Engine Without Cash, Booze, or Jumper Cables (ISBN 9780974501727), The Man’s No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet Earth (ISBN 0974501719), and a forthcoming book for women. The 2008 recipient of the National Coalition of Free Men’s “Award for Excellence in Promoting Gender Fairness In The Media,” Mr. Rudov is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel.
Rudov’s books, articles, radio/TV archives, and podcasts are available at TheNoNonsenseMan.com.
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Excellent article that helps to keep things in perspective!
There are some solid ideas expressed in this article, but it would be interesting to see some statistics about what type of degrees women are earning. I am sure there are some outstanding female graduates in science, engineering, medicine etc, and to assume that ALL of them are pursuing Women’s Studies degrees would be erroneous.
I would also like to point out there is a growing movement for Male Studies ( note: http://www.malestudies.org/) which I believe provides some balance but is not solid enough to justify a commitment to a four year study program.
@B Simmons
B Simmons, I never suggested that ALL females are enrolled in women’s studies. I stated that an increasing number of them are — and that’s why there are so many programs. Women earn more business, medicine, law, and veterinary degrees than men. Male studies? For what?
To Marc Rudov,
Thank you for your quick response. I highlighted the web site for your consideration, since it explores similar issues discussed on your forum. Would I personally go to college to earn a Male Studies degree? No, but at least there is a choice offered to offset the obvious imbalance.
@B Simmons
Two quick points:
1) Women’s studies programs, as stated above, heavily influence public policy, which is almost always misandrist
2) No male studies programs ever will “offset” feminist imbalances — ever
I agree, Marc. The whole “gender studies” concept is as dumb as a political science degree. They become professional critics employed by government. Therefore a further drain on our society. There are way too many social science courses and no where near enough real science going on on universities today. The science that is done gets filtered by the PC crowd. BTW Al Gore, I view as a traitor to the USA.
Marc, a very good column about liberty, and an excellent time to reflect on it. It would seem without economic freedom , there is little chance for any other in these United States.
Great article.
As to male studies, will it add to the established disciplines already in place? Nope. But it does serve a very valuable political purpose, and one that is two fold.
First, almost all of the bogus research on DV, wage gaps and other feminist mendacities emanates from women’s and gender studies programs. These things turn into laws (VAWA, Ledbetter, et al) very quickly. Currently there is no academic dissent from those opinions within higher education. Male studies has the potential to address this constructively.
The other factor here is that women’s and gender studies programs are a manufacturing area for activists. Their departments have established hegemony in law schools, psychology departments and even criminal justice programs. Since these women can’t go on to do anything of real substance, many of them go on to work in politics and other positions of social and legal influence.
Male studies programs offer the opportunity to provide a voice of dissent withing institutions of higher learning that can’t just be ignored, and those are voices that will eventually carry on to other areas just as we have seen with feminism.
Brilliant analysis, Marc. Perhaps a detailed study following this theory could be a research topic at one of the mens’ studies programs.
My daughter was required to take an elective at the university at which she is attending. The choices mainly included some version of feminism/homosexuality, etc. I am not suggesting there is anything wrong with studying either of these topics, but rather it is wrong to require students at a major, publicly-funded university to do so.
Not surprisingly with me as her dad, she got into arguments with the teacher, one time accusing her of teaching fantasy and opinions as scientific facts.
She skipped the final and declared that she doesn’t care if she fails (I objected to that course of action).
Hi Marc,
I have encountered women that have the most obtuse perspective on men. This sort of woman is relatively clueless about what makes men tick. I feel that women’s studies have something to do with this. It’s amazing to me how quickly I lose interest in a woman when she blares something like “Limitations come from a male dominated society.” Or my personal favourite “oh you know, the entire event was dominated by men so there was all this meat on the menu.” (haha, men eat meat? Whaaa?) These programs teach women that men are guilty until proven innocent.