'Gender Studies': do they do warp the minds of our future wives?

Question

No gentleman would go to such a class, so what is their point? I fear that those Studies try to divide two genders who are made for mutual love Or am I missing something?

Blimey! What a lot of answers! I admit that I have never attended 'Gender Studies' (that's why I asked the question), but the aggressive tone of many answers imply that it does not increased love and respect between men and women, just as I suspected.
I have often wondered whether the USA argued itself into a Civil War in 1861 by too clearly defining the difference between North and South.

Blimey! What a lot of answers! I admit that I have never attended 'Gender Studies' (that's why I asked the question), but the aggressive tone of many answers imply that it does not increase love and respect between men and women, just as I suspected.
I have often wondered whether the USA argued itself into a Civil War in 1861 by too clearly defining the difference between North and South.

Sorry, I pressed the wrong button and repeated myself. Typical man, eh?

Is love today defined as oppression, and self-sacrifice as a waste?
In a country that endured seccession
And ruined all nobility in its haste?
Can we not all come together,
Black and white and yellow
In any sort of weather
And say: 'You are like me, a decent fellow, a gentleman of taste?'

Can we now please all agree
That our nation may yet advance?
And prosper by beer and liberty
And water leave to France?

Answer 1

What exactly are you worried about when you say "warp the minds"? That your future wife might actually think for herself?

I hate people like you.

Answer 2

I love everything about women so don't take this as my opinion on anything. I just wanted to give you an anecdote for your question. I was majoring in philosophy at UCLA in the early 90s and took a joint class with the womens studies department on philosophy and womens studies. The woman professor opens up with a speech on the first day of class about how this class is not going to use logic or reason because those have been the masters tools to repress women throughout history. We philosophy students in the back row gave one another silent looks back and forth about what an interesting class this was going to be. It turned out to be a lot of fun, but that was the point of view taken throughout the entire class.

Answer 3

:) I haven't taken a class specifically on gender studies but gender differences were focused on alot in my interpersonal psychology class. I found it interesting but I not anything that was all that important. I can see where some of it would be useful in understanding the opposite sex or in making changes for the future and understanding why things have changed over time. However, I do see your point about it warping your future wife. Most of what my book mentioned was (for lack of better words) taking the women's side. The most interesting thing I got out of it was that the vast majority of all medical research has been done on men!!!! How retarted is that?

Answer 4

What Gender Studies? My lady cats and I never took no stinkin' Gender Studies class. Experience has always been our best teacher. Graduated from Hard Knocks U, summa c@m laude, and damn proud of it. Please know that I'm not a "militant, angry lesbian"just someone who's seen a lot. I hope that in the 21st century the lack of respect traditionally shown women ( murders and sex crime included) will be replaced by compassion. And that in time there will be no more need for Gender Studies classes.

Answer 5

Why is it that no gentleman would go to such a class? If they did they would understand better the thighs, the bodies and everything that has to do with women. And maybe you would understand them a bit more. They don't warp their minds, they teach what society and chauvinism tries too hard to conceal. that we are different genders therefore we have different needs but we complement each other and men are not superior. We were not put on this earth to be your servants, whores, or anything more than you companions.

Answer 6

It's a safe bet that most of the students who have been indoctrinated into the radical thinking of some Women's Studies professors will grow out of it post-grad.

Answer 7

What may be dividing you from any other gender is your ridiculously serious attitude to life.

You obviously have no idea what gender studies entails so why don't you enroll and find out.

As for being a gentleman, and what he would do, once again you display total ignorance, or you would know, that tolerance of others, is one of the attributes a gentleman should show.

Answer 8

My roommate's girlfriend majored in Women's Studies at UC Santa Barbara, and would frequently come back from class saying things like: "Did you know over 1/3 of college men are rapists?"

And I would ask: How do you get those numbers when there were only 3 cases of rape last year, not just at UCSB (>20,000 students) but in the whole city?

And she responded: "Almost all of them go unreported."

It just makes you think--how did they get these numbers then? Turns out, they passed out questionaires to a bunch of women. Is this reliable?

Here's another. Did you know the average woman has a salary that is $15,000 less than the average man? But again, how did they get their data?

Their studies don't take into account that women and men do not enter certain professions with the same frequency. For example, way more men become truck drivers than for example, secretaries.

Also, many women take part-time jobs because they are comfortable with their husbands salary -- or they may be out a quarter of the year for pregnancy and childbirth; etc. There are so many variables they don't take into account...

And then they just presume that there must be a glass ceiling, and that its all due to discrimination against women. The classes don't even debate whether or not that is the case; they get right into asking "how has this affected your lives?" and sometimes even: "What can we do as a society to get rid of it?"

What the hell? Students are very impressionable, and if you ask enough questions like that, many of them just sort of assume that it must be the case... then these kids go on to be college professors, and teach the next class.

And this attitude bleeds to the other academic disciplines. For example, In the writing department, my roommate was docked points for using the word "mankind" in his term paper. The teacher circled it and put "Sexist". In the history department, they wanted to create a parallel "HER-story" which acknowledges women were just as great as men, and told from a female-centric perspective.

Teachers are supposed to teach kids how to think, not what to think. Maybe there are good profs at other universities, but speaking for my own... simply terrible.

Answer 9

a) Define warp minds
b) what would be harmful in studying the history, literature, and cultural contributions to society bywomen?
c) How should women be, exactly? Should there be one type of woman? If you think so, you've missed the point of gender studies. In a male dominated culture, women need an outlet to be free to study.
d) Lastly, do you think women exist to be baby factories or do you think they have the freedom to choose their destinies in life?

Just some stuff to consider. If you're really puzzled, ask a professor at your local university who teaches gender studies. You never know, you might find it interesting and could meet a future wife in the process. :)

Answer 10

You could take gender studies, black studies, Native american studies, sports history, and few other featherweight classes, and come out a very understanding person.

You'll get along wonderfully with all your neighbors in refrigerator boxes under the expressway overpass.

Answer 11

You are missing something...actually a lot of things.

Plenty of men attend women's studies classes. Women's studies/gender studies classes explore the roles that gender plays in our and other societies and how and why they have developed they way that they have.

From what I have experienced, there is no attempt to divide--if anything most classes are developed to help everyone understand the value of all gender and gender roles and to dispel the myth that any one gender must conform to any one societal gender role.