Broads' Studies

Ever wonder what "Womens' Studies" was all about?

I thought it was a degree where one got to watch a lot of faux lesbian porno films. Well, many of the instructors are lesbians, but they are certainly people you would never want to see naked - much less watch in faux porno films. Anyways, I got over that a long time ago - it's been about a decade since I watched any porno film, so I really do not have that sicko mindset, but I just wanted to give my thoughts. And the instructors are people who really want to deal with in any case.

Women's studies is nothing more than applied Marxism. It is for people too stupid to understand real Marxism anyway, so colleges have to provide a dummed-down version - then since people of today cannot understand concepts without a media patina, like an ice-cream shop, the colleges have to provide some flavors of their dummed-down Marxism - like women's studies, black studies, gay studies, or whatever other "studies" are in vogue. These students would easily get lost in the real stuff that Marx wrote, such as "Communist Manifesto," much less "Das Kapital" and "Philosophical and Dialectical Manuscripts."

Russell Kirk put it simply - almost everyone today is schooled; few are truly educated. In a future post I will put my ideas about education, and you will see why I call this blog "Iconoclast."

Here is an example of what I mean of what I mean. My mother, for mother's day (about five years ago), gave my grandma a book of famous women - found in the "Womens' Studies" section of the bookstore. It included such women as Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Carol Mosley-Braun, Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Steinem, Eva Peron (basically a slut), and Doctor Ruth Westover (?!?!?!?). The author had to add Maggie Thatcher, too, since she was the first woman leader of Great Britain, but however, she can soon be forgotten. And if a few years would have held out, she probably would have removed Golda Mier, since the intelligentsia hates Jews so much today.

What this book did not include were such women like Ayn Rand (who wrote the greatest, and best selling, novel of the 20th century), Phyllis Schaffer (who defeated ERA and was very instrumental in helping to create the conservative movement), Dixie Lee Ray (the first women governer (of my state, Washington) who despite being a Democrat was quite a conservative), Laura Schlessinger (the top rated female talk show host), and if a few more years would have been around, Ann Coulter (the heir-apparent to be head of the conservative movement) and Condi Rice. There are others I cannot name. Basically, most of these women were/are ardent proponnents of the free market philosophy - Ayn Rand was probably the mother of the ideology of capitalism - and since the dimwits in women's studies departments are far too closed minded to see that actually markets work, they cannot promote anybody with a free market ideology, even if they are great women.

In any case, I came across this one night, when finishing my blog. I looked to see if it would pop up, one of them that came up was "The Greatest Blog Ever," and since the author was obviously wrong (because this is truly the greatst blog ever) I had to check it out. Well, while my is way better, this is a pretty darned good blog. This author, which you can find at, jackiethegreatest.blogspot.com/, wrote up this excellent piece on Women's Studies programs. I think it is almost better than what I wrote above. Here it is:

Women's Studies
A gem from the Bucknell website from the women's studies department home page:
Chief Benefits of the Program
· Women's and Gender Studies students are led to new critical perspectives on frameworks, concepts, and methods across several disciplines. (Yes, because prior to coming into the program, most people aren't used to bashing men and hating America as much as radical feminists wish they were!)
· The program is designed to enable students to better understand concepts of gender, race, ethnicity, class, health, and age in the past and in the contemporary world, thereby achieving an understanding of the complexity and wholeness of human experience. (Hmm, can't you understand the complexity and wholeness of the human experience without this degree? Isn't that just called "living"??)
· Small-class settings contribute to a personalized yet collaborative learning environment. Classes provide many opportunities for discussion where students can hone their speaking and thinking skills. (This is a nice way of saying, "Not many people major in women's studies, so at least your classes will be small.")
· Our courses offer multiple opportunities for personal reflection on life experiences. (So do journaling and talking with friends, yet nobody gets degrees for those...)
· A major in Women's and Gender Studies provides the first stage for graduate work in a number of disciplines. (The real discipline will come when you graduate and find yourself unemployed for ten years.)
· Women's and Gender Studies offers a background for careers in fields such as journalism, law, international affairs, teaching, personnel management, public and private corporations, and local and state agencies addressing the needs of girls and women. (In other words, somewhere out there, there just might be a use for your degree, although we have no idea what that would be unless you want to join our cult!)
Conclusion: A degree in women's studies is worthless.