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Harvard professor: Department is bastion of sexism

Parents of America - this is where your tuition dollars are going.

Let's read this paragraph from cnn together, and see if we can detect everything that is wrong with it, shall we?

"BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- A Harvard University professor who accused the school of gender discrimination has withdrawn her resignation, but said Thursday that the school's landscape architecture department remains a bastion of sexism".

1. Accusation of 'gender discrimination'? What the hell does this mean? Did spanky and alfalfa reform the 'He man woman haters club'?

2. It's serious enough to resign and serious enough to report breathlessly, but not so much that you really mean to leave the job. Must not be all that bad if you ask me.

3. In the 'landscape architecture department'? At Harvard? Whats the semester cost for going to Harvard? So you can study wheres the best place to put the ficus? I guess the ESP and telekinesis department lost its credibility and all those folks had to go somewhere.

4. "Bastion of Sexism" sounds like the name of a terrific bar or a great garage band but it does not sound like the haunt of college professors - especially those in the "landscape architecture department".

5. These words leave you with the impression that our poor put-upon female college professor has been forced to get the men of the departent coffee and was ordered to pick up their shirts at the dry cleaners. However, parsing through the article you discover that 'professor cinderella' has been teaching at Harvards "landscape architecture department" since 1992 while she developed a world renoun and internationally known landscape architeture practice on the side. Oh, the horror and indignity of it all. All those years forced under the servitude of men, it mustve driven her to the madness of practicing free market capitalism and moved to the hard stuff of starting her own business.

The poor thing, I'm surprised she didnt stand on a table in the professors lounge and hold up a piece of carboard with the word UNION on it, as the thugs from the regents office dragged her away to meet her doom.

Posted @ January 21, 2007 11:12 AM | Current Affairs