{"id":1553,"date":"2005-05-16T11:31:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-16T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/16\/the-iwf-and-their-skills-of-exposing-the-evil-feminist-gender-switching-agenda-strikes-again\/"},"modified":"2005-05-16T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2005-05-16T18:31:26","slug":"the-iwf-and-their-skills-of-exposing-the-evil-feminist-gender-switching-agenda-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"The IWF and their skills of exposing the "evil feminist gender-switching agenda" strikes again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) is noted for their hysterical and sometimes very incoherent ravings against feminism and shameless “groupie” pandering towards the anti-feminist\/pro-Stepfordwives<\/em> conservative forces in the world of politics. Their constant and absurd accusation that feminism is all about creating a “genderless-androgynous utopian society<\/em>” is rich–not to mention woefully and willfully ignorant. I doubt any contemporary feminist would deny that there will always be some degree of “traditional” gender characteristics being expressed by both sexes. I really enjoy the IWF’s repeated and insidious charges against women’s only colleges who allegedly promote this “ideal” of creating a genderless-purely androgynous culture. Oh and let’s not forget the “man-hating” indoctrination too–that’s a classic. Their lastest charge against women’s only colleges; it turns girls transgender<\/strong>! <\/a><\/p>\n

But I thought this was a women’s college…<\/p>\n

A recent article in the Financial Times captured the gender confusion at Smith College:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

“Signing up for a beginner’s Italian class is usually a simple enough task, but for Sebastian, a second-year student at Smith College in the US, it proved complicated. Smith has always been a school for women, which is what Sebastian was when he began a bachelor’s degree there in 2001. But since then, he has become a man. At least that is how she thinks of herself. Himself. That is how his friends think of him, too, but it isn’t necessarily how a new Italian teacher would see him. And since Italian is such a gender-specific language, Sebastian needed to let the teacher know before the semester began that there would be a new studente in class, not a studentessa.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the kid’s transgender-so what? Well it’s a big deal to the IWF in their pitiful attempt to equate feminism and women’s only colleges as big brainwashing facilities. I’ve seen and heard better from neanderthals.<\/p>\n

The FT article isn’t available without an expensive (but almost worth it for this one story!) subscription, but to summarize: More and more women who attend Smith College are becoming transgender students. But you know the whole enterprise lacks seriousness — or why to they remain at a women’s college? Or maybe the whole thing is being taken too seriously…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, why are you taking this seriously and what’s wrong with women wanting to attend an all-women’s college?–nothing. I don’t see the IWF railing and ridiculing men who attend all-men’s colleges like Wabash College in Indiana.<\/p>\n

As the American Thinker notes in a wonderful article on this priceless piece:<\/p>\n

“Smith was founded to be exclusively for women, but now is taking seriously the claims of maleness of sexually confused people with two X-chromosomes. They must be addressed as males, a class of individuals not admitted to the college. Issues of bathroom usage, and even the proper form of gender-specific languages like Italian, rile the campus. The mental gymnastics involved are formidable, and the problems endless.<\/p>\n

“My favorite paragraph (among many hilarious examples) in the article reveals the utter self-absorption and lack of perspective of those who go off the ideological deep end:<\/p>\n

“Just as Herbert Marcuse’s theories were important on campus in his day, gender theory is important now,” says Paisley Currah, an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and a board member of the Transgender Law and Policy Institute.<\/p>\n

“Earth to Professor Currah: if you want your theoretical obsessions to be taken seriously, don’t choose to compare them to those of a man who has already returned to his default position of well-deserved obscurity. Marcuse is a joke to all but a handful of feverish radicals. The comparison is apt, given that future generations will scratch their heads in amazement as to how transgender theory could ever have been taken seriously, just as they today do over the onetime popularity of Professor Marcuse’s ‘repressive tolerance’ theories, which, come to think of it, just might apply to transgenderism in a way you do not intend.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can’t tell how bigoted they are against Queer theory and the academia as a whole can you? Anti-feminist attacks are one thing, but bashing a field of study and it’s focal community trying to create an understanding of Queer\/Gender issues and cite examples of how heterocentric\/sexist our society can be is beyond sophomoric and an example of reactionary ignorance. So what’s wrong with courses discussing Queer\/Gender issues and theories?–nothing. Just another incoherent cheap-shot against feminism, Queer issues, and the academia by the IWF. College is supposed to be about intellectual expansion–not a retraction to willful ignorance and narrow-thinking. And intellectual growth is what groups like the IWF fear students especially young women will experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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