For a little background, Wellesley is one of the traditional all-women's ivy-league colleges and is part of the "Seven Sister Schools" - Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College - all founded in the 19th Century. So you can imagine that they take their feminism really seriously. For the five school that remain "all woman", they now admit transgendered students - males who identify as female, females who identify as males and everything inbetween except males who identify as...well...male.
So here's the story. A female student who identified as male metriculated into Wellesley College as a freshman and asked to be referred to as "he" and as this NYT article indicates "he" was mostly accepted as a "he". So far so good until as a sophomore, he decided to run for the student-government position of the multi-cultural diversity coordinator who would be "responsible for promoting 'a culture of diversity' among students and staff and faculty members." That's when he suddenly found out exactly what happens to a white male who wants to run for a student government position at an all-women's college. When three others who signed up to run for the same position dropped out, the women at the college started a campaign calling for all to "abstain" from voting. And, dear Lord, this is what the leader had to say:
“It wasn’t about Timothy,” the student behind the Abstain campaign told me. “I thought he’d do a perfectly fine job, but it just felt inappropriate to have a white man [emphasis added] there. It’s not just about that position either. Having men in elected leadership positions undermines the idea of this being a place where women are the leaders.”Seriously, as if being transgendered isn't enough to prove one's street cred in diversity, he is now being discriminated against because he...is...a...white...man. It's feminist insanity at its best or worse. This poor "man" not only has to deal with negotiating a hostile, confused world as a transgendered person, but NOW he has to contend with man-hating femini-nazis too. Like I said, it just makes my head hurt...
As a side note: Hillary Rodham Clinton graduated from Wellesley in 1969. God help us.
Bev, the solution is simple:
ReplyDeleteAll he or she has to do is change his or her race.
Oh, and divvy up his or her white privilege among the rest of the students.
ReplyDeleteOh, who am I kidding? Leftist "logic" ain't supposed to make sense.
This reminds me of what Tom Clancy said when asked what is harder to write, fiction oe non-fiction.
Clancy replied, "fiction, because fiction must make sense."
USS Ben - I can see it now! The next new wave - "racial fluidity" We will be able to change our race just by saying we identify with whatever race we "feel" we are. Okay, now my head hurts worse...exploding in 3...2...1!
ReplyDeleteI've always felt like I was a poor Chinese lesbian.
ReplyDeleteYeah, "he" should call himself something other than white, then the issue goes away, right?
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, this is truly a sign of stupidity that they would be upset by this. No matter how much everyone wants to pretend, this person remains genetically a female. The end.
In any event, it does expose them for the bigots they really are.
I think most Americans view Transgendered people this way: "Weird but, hey, its a free country. Just use the right bathroom." In fact, most Americans allow weirdness as long as it does not involve preying on children, masturbating/sex in public, or hiding in the tanks of a women's port-a-potties as a form of "goddess worship" (true story).
ReplyDeleteBasically, "Whatever, free county."
Radical Feminism, however has a nasty anti-Trans streak as it views them as a threat to female identity (or whatever).
One nice quote (note, she is largely referring to biological male transsexuals):
"All transsexuals rape women's bodies by reducing the real female form to an artifact, appropriating this body for themselves .... Transsexuals merely cut off the most obvious means of invading women, so that they seem non-invasive." —Janice Raymond
Radical Feminist icon Mary Daly was viciously anti-transsexual as well.
Emphasis was mine, in the quote I used.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to be sick. They only good out of this is it shows the liberal idea of breaking everyone up into little groups fosters hate rather than understanding. Just to piss them off I would like to see a bunch of white males apply for Wellesley and then sue for discrimination. Even better Hispanics or blacks. That would be awesome.
ReplyDeleteKoshcat - I am not quite sure how they would get away with denying a qualified male application just because he is male. I thought this was the 21st Century and institutional sexism was forbidden.
ReplyDeleteHere's an interesting fact - several of the colleges (not Wellesley) are now co-ed. Smith College, the alma mater of Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Trisha Nixon, other notable Republican woman and even Gloria Steinem is now co-ed. Wellesley, the alma mater of Hillary Clinton is not and obviously apparently extremely hostile toward men to boot...
Kit - Feminist extremists are no better than any other extremists. I think it's classic Freudian penis envy. I am not sure what happened to some of these women to make them hate men so much. For the women who say "male-to female" transsexuals "by reducing the real female form to an artifact...", well that's just shoe envy. Who else would wear those 6" heeled platform shoes than a man who wants to be a woman?
ReplyDelete"Who else would wear those 6" heeled platform shoes than a man who wants to be a woman?"
ReplyDeleteThat is a quote for the ages!
Side-note: The only time in was ever "fashionable" for men to wear high-heels was the 17th-18th century. And they were about an inch high —at most.
Kit and Bev, You both forget the 1970s. Even normal people were walking the earth in platform shoes, bell bottom pants, and rhinestones.
ReplyDelete"You both forget the 1970s..."
ReplyDeleteYou know what's really sad? When the clothes you wore in high school are not considered "vintage".
Bev, I've reached that point too. Everything I grew up with is considered "ancient" by our girls. :(
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is always complaining that I like listening to "old" music. She actually rolled her eyes and complained to her friend when I turned up Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing.
ReplyDeleteNo, Andrew, I actually mean are categorized by fashion experts as "vintage" and sold in "vintage" clothing stores for lots of money! Now, I know what my mother must have felt in the '70's when there was that "50's nostalgia craze because of "Happy Days"...
ReplyDeleteCarol Costello attacks Fox News when one of their co-hosts jokes about Domestic Abuse. And rightfully so.
ReplyDeleteThen recently segues into the audio recording of Bristol Palin recounting the fight she was involved in by saying this:
"I'm just gonna come out and say it. This is the best minute and a half of audio we've ever come across."
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Worst. Segue. Ever.
Now, this pisses me off for two reasons:
(1) The hypocrisy: She lectures Americans on domestic violence but finds it hilarious and is actually gleeful when it is towards someone she doesn't like.
(2) She is forcing me to defend the Palin family. That really ticks me off.
By the way, here is a snippet of what Carol Costello, who had a month-and-a-half ago recounted her own experience w/ domestic violence, found so funny:
"I walk back up. “Did you push my sister?” And some guy gets up, pushes me down on the grass, drags me across the grass. “You slut, you fucking cunt, you fucking this.” I get back up, he pushes me down on the grass again. And I have my five year old, they took my $300 sunglasses, they took my fucking shoes, and I’m just left here?"
So, we've had our first unverified case of possible Ebola in NYC!!! Woo-hoo!! A young doctor who just returned from working in the hot zone for Doctors Without Borders. He self-quarantined himself when he started developing systems after 10 days back in NYC. He is now at Bellevue Hospital in quarantine.
ReplyDeleteKit - So a young woman is assaulted in front of her 5 year old child and that sorry excuse for newscaster thinks that it's amusing?? Wow...there's a reason that why CNN is tanking. The very least the Palin family should demand that Costello publicly apologize and then beat the snarky eye-roll out of her...oh, wait maybe not that last part
ReplyDeleteThat is a weird story.
ReplyDeleteI remember something similar happened with my college's version of the black female students' union. In my last year of college they split into two groups when the newly elected leader decided to induct her white male gay best friend with the dubious justification that he liked sleeping with black men so he was a sister in spirit :0.
Carol Costello issued a statement to several news sources and on twitter:
ReplyDelete"Over the past few days I have been roundly criticized for joking about a brawl involving the Palin family. In retrospect, I deserve such criticism and would like to apologize."
Don't expect to see her say this on CNN, however.
Carol Costello may be an ass, but let me point out that what the Palin family did ain't dun by normals. I guess they got their paws on some bad moonshine.
ReplyDeleteOh, and let me issue an apology in advance. I should not be mocking genooine conservatives like the Palin/Honey Boo Boo families, who so represent the values which made this country great.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, that still does not excuse mocking assault...
ReplyDeleteBristol and her younger sister probably should not have been at the party, and neither should she have probably brought her 5-year old son.
ReplyDeleteBut the way Carol Costello jokes about Bristol's description… did she even hear it?
About a month ago, in the aftermath of the Ray Rice scandal, she was saying that no one should ever, ever, ever make fun of violence against women.
Yet, here she is, smiling and laughing, calling the audio of Bristol Palin's description of it "is the best minute and a half of audio we've ever come across… sit back and enjoy."
Bev, Since she's on the left, I am horribly outraged. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't be mocked. It's like some trashy youtube video of a fight at a wedding.
ReplyDeleteWell, we have our first confirmed case of Ebola in NYC. As David Burge (IowaHawk) tweeted earlier - "NYC: world's highest concentration of hypochondriacs. What could go wrong?" Let the irrational panic begin...
ReplyDeleteI cannot WAIT for the NY Post headline tomorrow morning. It will be one for the Hall of Fame, I am sure. I for one will no longer allow anyone to vomit on me in the subway anymore...;-)
Whoa! Terribly late to the conversation. I actually came across this story befor Bev's article went up. I'd say my initial reaction was about the same.
ReplyDeleteAll the worst stereotypes of women are embraced by feminism as power. It is pure damselling to say that women can only hold leadership in the absence of male leaders. More so when the "man" in question is really a woman.
As far as that last bit goes, the difference between "identifying" as something you're not versus merely pretending is who and how many are pretending along with you. Frankly, I have to side with the feminists against gender fluidity, not that it matters in practical terms to me. As Kit said, it's a free country. Identity only matters when it confers special privileges.
Bev,
ReplyDeleteI am issuing an invisible subpoena to you to require you to post a picture of today's NY Post headline. Either one you've taken or found online.
Kit - Sadly, I was disappointed. the NY Post was almost entirely panic-free. With a simple in 3" letters. "EBOLA HERE!"
ReplyDeleteMaybe tomorrow they will lead with "E-BOWLING" (credit to David Burge/IowaHawk) since the infected doc took the subway from UWS to Brooklyn to go bowling the day before his fever hit...
Tryanmax - Yeah, you know, the Wellesley situation just proves that no matter what one purports to be, one can still harbor prejudices. It's human. though in this case, it's makes my head hurt at the hypocrisy of it all.
ReplyDelete"We condemn Bigotry and Discrimination except when we do it, we are justified." kind of stuff. In this case you're a woman and we support you until you say you're a man and then we can hate on you.
HAPPY ST. CRISPIN'S DAY! On this day in 1415, 499 years ago, King Henry V defeated the French army at Agincourt.
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WESTMORELAND. O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING. What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin, Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires.
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England.
God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more methinks would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man’s company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is call’d the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say “To-morrow is Saint Crispian.”
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say “These wounds I had on Crispian’s day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.