In my time in academia, I've found that the people who teach gender studies are nearly universally based, and only become more based the further up into academia you go (which is usually not the case imo), but the intro through like junior year students are all Tumblr/Twitter liberal feminists, who make the classes nearly unbearable to sit through to people with any other social sciences background, let alone conservative.
I mean one of the first things that my intro teacher tried to beat into our heads was that gender is a method of culturally expected expression and not a monolithic culture, and yet I'm pretty sure 80% of the class didn't get it as much of the time they just used the class to complain about whatever annoying thing their boyfriend did and then assign it to 'masculinity' (which was self defeating because if you say that whatever annoying thing is masculine then you only encourage that behavior from guys who want to be perceived as masculine).
But yeah, the idea that gender studies is taking over schools as opposed to business school mentality (you know the majors that tend to run the colleges finances) is hilarious.
In my time in academia, I've found that the people who teach gender studies are nearly universally based, and only become more based the further up into academia you go (which is usually not the case imo), but the intro through like junior year students are all Tumblr/Twitter liberal feminists, who make the classes nearly unbearable to sit through to people with any other social sciences background, let alone conservative.
I mean one of the first things that my intro teacher tried to beat into our heads was that gender is a method of culturally expected expression and not a monolithic culture, and yet I'm pretty sure 80% of the class didn't get it as much of the time they just used the class to complain about whatever annoying thing their boyfriend did and then assign it to 'masculinity' (which was self defeating because if you say that whatever annoying thing is masculine then you only encourage that behavior from guys who want to be perceived as masculine).
But yeah, the idea that gender studies is taking over schools as opposed to business school mentality (you know the majors that tend to run the colleges finances) is hilarious.