Keili Bartlett reports from the cutting edge of Canadian academia:
Women should be heard first in the classroom, a forum on misogyny at Dalhousie University heard on Thursday. “Men should not be allowed to monopolise these forums,” management professor Judy Haiven said.
Readers are invited to see if they can spot any male persons on the non-monopolistic panel in question.
Her idea that women should always speak first in classroom discussions and at public events was brought up several times during the forum. Haiven said she already tries to apply this idea in her own classroom… “In the management department, women get to speak first.”
How chivalrous. Though of course the professor means male students aren’t allowed to speak first. Because gender condescension is the path to utopia.
Haiven’s idea was met by a round of applause,
Of course it was.
but not everyone agreed with her suggestion.
Oh, calamity. Do I hear a rumble of dissent?
“I think that women of colour should speak first in class,” [gender and sexual resource centre outreach co-ordinator, Jude] Ashburn said.
Whew. That was close.
Sadly, however, Total Ideological Correction™ remains just out of reach. Perhaps more panel discussions are needed. Panels in which stern and pious ladies confuse gender with temperament and depict women as timid, delicate creatures who struggle to raise their hands and can’t quite master speech. In a cosseting environment where women are a majority.
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