From: gcacademianetwork.org
"University should be where we are challenged - read more, learn more, know more, have arguments with people we agree with, disagree with, add to the culture, not detract from it...
"University should be where we are challenged - read more, learn more, know more, have arguments with people we agree with, disagree with, add to the culture, not detract from it...
...I have seen a shift in students ability to engage - in the last couple of years many students feel they have a right not to be offended. I find THIS offensive. "
"I suppose I have ended up being a gender critical feminist - I have always been a feminist, but I feel this must be another dimension to my feminism that I hadn't otherwise explored, partly in reaction to this lunacy. I was shocked by the trans student feeling that their...
...opinion should be weighted more valuably than any other student or teacher in the class - there is such a narcissism attached to this attitude - and it is really hard to know how to navigate it for the best. This student was 18 years old, by the way."
"when the idea that repeating the phrase "TW are women" will make it so, is offered up as a fact, when language to describe our experiences as women is being eroded by a bullying lobby that doesn't seem to actually understand language, meaning, and the history of women's rights"
"I have a supervisor who goes to great lengths explaining that woman doesn't just mean female etc etc at the start of her work *on women* (men, in contrast, are of course left unexplained)"
"I am increasingly being turned off the whole enterprise of feminist academia because the basic premise that 'woman' isn't an objective category just makes a mockery of entire disciplines which deal with logic and causal claims, and exposes the whole endeavour of feminist...
... research as fraudulent (if academics who don't think women objectively exist can nonetheless make an entire career out of talking off the backs of them, what sort of pointless racket is this?)."
"And just yesterday I saw that even the usually very sensible Chatham House has released a set of guidelines on gender research emphasising how important it is to recognise 'woman' can mean all manner of things. Should women scholars who don't subscribe to this idea...
...cancel their membership and stop submitting publications to them then, if this is the guidance?
I despair at how intellectually shallow all of this is becoming but more than anything else I feel a deep, rumbling sense of unease and alarm at the spectre of otherwise...
I despair at how intellectually shallow all of this is becoming but more than anything else I feel a deep, rumbling sense of unease and alarm at the spectre of otherwise...
...intelligent people essentially going along with the idea that women are not necessarily an objective human category (and with such speed and ferocity!)."
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