The millitary practicing affirmative action for women

You see that feminists have still not given up on the notion that a woman is just a short man without a penis. They see no difference between the sexes, because a big woman can surely do more than a small man, so why not hire her as a fire fighter, jackhammer operator, or cannon fodder?

When I got out of college I pretty much had bought into this crap. By the way, when Prager talks about leftwing ideas being promulgated in college, this is one of the more prominent and one of the most dearly cherished ideas. There are leftists who would deny that leftwing ideas are promoted in colleges with few exceptions. They are either leftwing themselves, and faced only ideas that made them happy they assumed they were faced with normative, middle-of-the-road ideas; or they were not paying attention and assumed that these leftwing ideas were merely common sense and that any intelligent person would accept them.

Anyway, back to my experiences at UCLA. Many many many of my classes had literally been handed over to specialty departments, most prominently the women's studies department. The professor would come into the class, climb up to the stages as if to address his class of five hundred students (all of them were at least 300 students), and announce that today's class would be taught by two women from the department of feminist studies, and then repeat the announcement ten or fifteen days in a row. Then we would be indoctrinated in the sameness of women's and men's natures, social pressure, indoctrination, psychological pressure, the gross inequalities between women and men in patriarchal societies, the magnificent glories of matriarchal societies,

I especially absorbed the malarkey that the only reason men and women grew up to be different was that their parents pressured their kids into being that way. Mothers in Sparta did that sort of thing (as did all patriarchal societies) and we their descendants have been following in their footsteps ever since.

We were given numerous anecdotal studies involving little boys who lost or were born without penises and then were brought up as girls, and how thouroughly girlish and happy they were. Never were we told about the endings to the stories, how the boys had always felt "wrong" or "out of place" until their secret was discovered and they decided to be male after all.

Through the Eighties I heard again and again about colleges that were shoving this stuff down their students' throats. Orientation at many colleges involved forcing the incoming male students into seminars where they would be bullied and raged at until they confessed to being "a potential rapist". I don't just mean a dozen oddball colleges that had gone nuts, I mean a huge number of them, so that it was getting harder and harder to find one that might leave you to your own beliefs and not try to rescue you from them.

And that leaves me to a whole different subject area, critical thinking ...