University students used to read the Bible in the original languages, debate fluently in Latin, memorize the principles of Euclidean geometry, and analyze the philosophical proposals and careers of the greatest minds in history. Nowadays, college students — or their parents — are paying astronomical amounts of money to receive indoctrination on affirming obesity, seeing illegal aliens as victims of gendered discrimination, and other equally preposterous propaganda.
The University of Arizona in my hometown of Tucson has a good reputation for certain programs, including nursing and engineering, but its gender studies degree is about as ridiculous as you might expect for a major that shouldn’t exist at all. If we look at the course description for “GWS 325 - Gender, Sexuality & International Migration,” we find the following word salad:
Focusing on contemporary migration across international borders, we explore how migration contributes to the production, contestation, and remaking of gender and sexual norms as these intersect with hierarchies of race, class, and geopolitics. We particularly examine how the selection, incorporation, and governance of migrants provide occasions for challenging, renegotiating, or affirming dominant gender and sexual norms; how migrants contest multiple exclusions and refashion identities, communities, and politics through gender and sexuality; and how transnational social fields, grounded in histories of empire and global capitalism, shape and are reshaped by these processes.
This course transforms “migrants,” which no doubt includes illegal alien criminals, into incessant victims of capitalism and homophobia. One wonders if the academics ever ask the question of why there is only mass migration to capitalist countries and out of socialist countries. U of A offers financial aid to illegal aliens.
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I recently talked to an incoming freshman at U of A whose advisor was a gender and women’s studies grad. The advisor’s incompetence and rudeness were staggering, but what can you expect from a woman who got her degree in grievance and woke fantasy?
Dickinson College’s Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies major seems to have even sillier classes. “WGSS 206 Fat Studies,” which is crosslisted under American Studies — apparently tacitly admitting that way too many Americans are fat — has the following description:
This course introduces students to an emerging academic field, Fat Studies. By drawing from historical, cultural, and social texts, Fat Studies explores the meaning of fatness within the U.S. and also from comparative global perspectives. Students will examine the development of fat stigma and the ways it intersects with gendered, racial, ethnic and class constructions. Not a biomedical study of the “obesity epidemic,” this course instead will interrogate the very vocabulary used to describe our current “crisis.” Finally, students will become familiar with the wide range of activists whose work has challenged fat stigma and developed alternative models of health and beauty.
While there are some people who are obese because of severe chronic health conditions, and some others who live long lives while being extremely overweight, the reality is that for most people, obesity is very unhealthy and capable of reduction. We don’t need a society more accepting of obesity; we need a society more focused on healthy living.
Unfortunately, there are all too many examples of such nonsense courses in higher education. Stanford University, for example, offered a course on “Queer Caribbean Performance” this spring. The grammatically faulty course description asserts, “With its' lush and fantastic landscape, fabulous carnivalesque aesthetics, and rich African Diaspora Religious traditions, the Caribbean has long been a setting which New World black artists have staged competing visions of racial and sexual utopia and dystopia. However, these foreigner-authored fantasies have often overshadowed the lived experience and life storytelling of Caribbean subjects.”
Cornell University has offered a series of lectures and videos on “Understanding Islamophobia,” while Harvard University hired a visiting professor this past school year who performs in drag under the name “LaWhore Vagistan.” What a cesspool our education system has become.
