Their women what? The suspense is killing me!

I really doubt it's because of their women.

Apparently, subby felt English was an irrelevant study as well. In grammar school.

vygramul: Apparently, subby felt English was an irrelevant study as well. In grammar school.

F*ck. I deserved that.

By all means, let's greenlight and reward voluntary retardation.

Howie Spankowitz: By all means, let's greenlight and reward voluntary retardation.

/steps up to chopping block

Bring me to their women.

The English Major: Howie Spankowitz: By all means, let's greenlight and reward voluntary retardation.

/steps up to chopping block

You are forgiven if you bring their woman to us.

Bradshaw said she felt that when questioned by the tenure board. "They wanted to know how many men were in my classes," she said. "You wouldn't ask that of a male professor."

How many men do you find teaching 'woman's studies'? And given the rep for most of the woman teaching that subject, i'd say the question was valid.

Women's Lesbian Studies and Gender Tranny Studies

FTFE

Four professors are denied tenure at DePaul university, claim it's because their women.

didn't put out?

Mentat: Four professors are denied tenure at DePaul university, claim it's because their women.

didn't put out?

Have you ever met anyone with a degree in woman's studies? I don't think you'd WANT them to put out....

You mean they don't offer home-ec?

"Bradshaw, a founder of DePaul's minor in the Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender/Queer Studies Program -- an unusual, perhaps unique, offering for a Catholic university."

She deserves cockpunch just for that.

FlukeBoy: Your handle is The English Major???
that's gotta sting.

/points for manning up, though.
//especially with that handle.
///I wouldn't have.
////slashie pyramid!

Trust me. It's not the first time. The worst offense is in my profile. And there have been others. There have been others.
Hoisted on my own petard and all that.

baka-san: "Bradshaw, a founder of DePaul's minor in the Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender/Queer Studies Program -- an unusual, perhaps unique, offering for a Catholic university."

She deserves cockpunch just for that.

Exactly. There's absolutely no need for that in a major university. You get an education to make a living.

+ 1 for the English Major for manning up...

And for the issue: It's obvious that the University has got discrimination problems. If your department committee think you deserve tenure, if several groups have come to the conclusion your method of Tenure is false and you statistically deny women the job in comparison to the men, then you have a major malfunctions

This article touches on one of the problems with modern universities (and one of the reasons students are ass-raped by costs): too many university departments exist solely to perpetuate themselves... they do not provide research for the greater-good of the school (or society), they do not provide in-depth analysis that one couldn't learn from a month at the library, and they are a net drain on a university's finances.

The fact that DePaul has a group that oversees tenureship, and makes decisions ABOVE each department, is a good thing. These schools need more engineers, chemists, and mathematicians, not more women's studies professors. Sorry, if that's "sexist," then perhaps we should force universities to provide courses in beer drinking, football, and getting laid (you know, "men's studies").

Now, if they aren't giving tenure to women simply because they are women, that's bad.

/but if they come with a choice of topping, that's good

That's the beauty of college these days, Tommy. You can major in Game Boy if you know how to bullshiat.

R.A.Danny: baka-san: "Bradshaw, a founder of DePaul's minor in the Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender/Queer Studies Program -- an unusual, perhaps unique, offering for a Catholic university."

She deserves cockpunch just for that.

Exactly. There's absolutely no need for that in a major university. You get an education to make a living.

Dude, if I could make a living studying lesbians, I would.

/Constantly.

Cog: What about their women dumbfarkmitter?

...they're loose out of desperation.

Oh, and after looking further into the article, they actually DO think they're comparably deserving of a job as a sciences professor that brings (possibly) hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in research grants to the school (not to mention the high amount of donated monies from those who earned degrees in the sciences).
I'm sorry, but again, that's a major flaw with the modern American university system.

My favorite, though, is how she completely glosses over the idea that, perhaps, the board that refused this woman's tenure MAY actually believe the sexism is not with them, but with her course:
Bradshaw said she felt that when questioned by the tenure board. "They wanted to know how many men were in my classes," she said. "You wouldn't ask that of a male professor."

She has no reason to make that insinuation... if "football coaching 101" was a course, chances are, it would have a male professor, and an almost entirely male body... and I'm sure a school may be curious to know if a gender-biased course actually has a huge disproportion of a certain gender. It's not an unreasonable question at all... women's studies courses don't have a reputation for sexism for no reason.

Best thread ever. Finding out that The English Major submitted this is delicious.

Darth_Lukecash: R.A.Danny: baka-san: "Bradshaw, a founder of DePaul's minor in the Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender/Queer Studies Program -- an unusual, perhaps unique, offering for a Catholic university."

She deserves cockpunch just for that.

Exactly. There's absolutely no need for that in a major university. You get an education to make a living.

Dude, if I could make a living studying lesbians, I would.

/Constantly.

Pretty much the point, become an engineer and you can afford to study lesbians.

Sexism hurts everybody. Especially broads.

Weaver95: Mentat: Four professors are denied tenure at DePaul university, claim it's because their women.

didn't put out?

Have you ever met anyone with a degree in woman's studies? I don't think you'd WANT them to put out....

Oh please. They play up the stiff man-hating thing, but get a few jello shots in them and look out!

Who among us has never made a mistake in a fark thred?

brainiac-dumdum: A pox on all your houses; may your livestock die and your crops wither in the field. I, the haggard, wizened crone across the way curse you all for your sexism and my lonely relegation to life as a spinster.

You sound hot.

Weaver95: Mentat: Four professors are denied tenure at DePaul university, claim it's because their women.

didn't put out?

Have you ever met anyone with a degree in woman's studies? I don't think you'd WANT them to put out....

Nowadays women's studies is ripe with adorable, petite, pale, cat-eye glasses wearing girls who wear only the trendiest of thrift store style clothes and typically have sensitive, skinny jean-wearing boyfriends with fashionable facial hair.

The guys are kinda douchy but the girls are cute as hell.

/works at a university

It's pretty clear that the question about men in her classes was intended to bring out the fact that these courses tend to overwhelmingly enroll women, and in fact tend to have a "cadre" of students and professors who will brook no debate, no dispute of their version of the "truth" about gender, sexism, patriarchy, et al. ad nauseam.

The cool thing is that to get an A in those courses, all you have to do is absolutely toe the ideological line in your papers and class contributions. And if you're a dude, to survive you should quickly claim to be antisexist, antirape, and with a deep seated resentment/hatred of your own penis. Interestingly, this will get you laid. By penis-hating women who will Hoover that thing like an anteater at a termite mound. But they won't admit it in public.

shanrick: Who among us has never made a mistake in a fark thred?

oh ho oh oh me! me! me! em!

brainiac-dumdum: puffy999: men's studies

It's called history

In fourteen hundred and ninety two
Columbus nailed a squaw of two

The English Major:
Trust me. It's not the first time. The worst offense is in my profile. And there have been others. There have been others.
Hoisted on with my own petard and all that.

/just not your day
//Billy Shakespeare is coming over to kick some ass