This past June, University of Washington Professor Stuart
Reges penned an op-ed
in which he said that women generally aren’t interested in computer science.
What’s more, he stated, “Men and women are different, and they make different
choices.” Egads! Ready the guillotine!
This
simple statement of an obvious fact predictably sent many students and
professors into paroxysms of rage and indignity. The school will not be
summarily destroyed, however, as its officials did what university officials
always do: they immediately caved and went into full-fledged appeasement mode,
agreeing to numerous “grievance demands.” I will not list the full set of
“demands” the snowflakes and their enablers put forth. Suffice it to say there
was much talk of the school providing “inter-sectional diversity” training. The
university will also pledge to thoroughly scrutinize every aspect of its
computer science courses to ensure they promote diversity above all else.
University of Washington spokesman Victor Balta went so far as to say the
school will ensure that its “gateway courses are attractive and welcoming to
the broadest group of students.” Really? A S.T.E.M. course? Is it going to
provide beer? Cookies, warm milk and puppies? Free sex toys?
Professor
Reges is understandably troubled that his op-ed was deemed a form of
“harassment.” He told PJ
Media: “The graduate students are claiming that by merely
discussing ideas they dislike that I have committed gender harassment. This
would be an alarming precedent to establish.”
You
think? And they run for their safe spaces while chasing anyone to the right of
Che Guevara out of restaurants?
Leftists
accuse those who are pro-reality of assaulting their human dignity and of being
extremists. No, the extreme position
is averring that abortion is “health care for women” and that truth does not
exist or is unknowable. Their assertion that there are no set genders, but that
an infinite number of them exist is an affront to human dignity. If you refuse
to identify as either a man or a woman, you’ve made a mockery of all that came
before you, and essentially declared yourself a non-person, an anonymous
cyborg, a robot, artificial non-intelligence in a no-sex-bot form.
There
aren’t any magazines with centerfolds of Amoeba-like creatures who are unisex,
asexual or reproduce with just their own gender, i.e. themselves. There is a
reason for this. Would “yin and yin” be as good as yin and yang? Would “tonic
and tonic” be as good as gin and tonic? Would Sonny and Cher have been no
better than “Sonny and “Sonny?”
Men and
women are different. If they weren’t,
none of us would be here. If they weren’t, many of us wouldn’t care to be here. That this is somehow
controversial, that these are somehow “fightin’ words,” is proof positive that we
human beings are now literally sowing the seeds of our own destruction.
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