{"id":2068431,"date":"2023-10-16T03:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-college-of-florida-nukes-anti-science-gender-studies-so-real-disciplines-can-thrive\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T03:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T07:45:36","slug":"new-college-of-florida-nukes-anti-science-gender-studies-so-real-disciplines-can-thrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-college-of-florida-nukes-anti-science-gender-studies-so-real-disciplines-can-thrive\/","title":{"rendered":"New College of Florida prioritizes real disciplines, eliminates anti-science gender studies."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-college-of-florida-nukes-anti-science-gender-studies-so-real-disciplines-can-thrive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2068431&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>I voted to abolish \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-walsh-does-it-again-with-no-1-womens-studies-bestseller-responds-in-classic-walsh-fashion\/\" title=\"Matt Walsh Does It Again With No. 1 \u2018Women\u2019s Studies\u2019 Bestseller, Responds In Classic Walsh Fashion\">gender studies program<\/a> at New College of Florida. Critics of the\u200d decision to \u2063eliminate \u200cgender studies have\u2062 since labeled it \u200dan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/23762357\/republican-attack-higher-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attack\u200b on education \u200ditself<\/a>. But as a matter of academic integrity and intellectual honesty, the board has \u2062a firm basis to remove \u2064gender studies as an area of concentration at the state\u2019s\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-cheers-for-hungary\/\" title=\"Hip hip hooray for Hungary!\">liberal\u200c arts<\/a>\u200d honors college.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Science \u2064Versus Self-Identity<\/h2>\n<p>Gender \u2062studies is\u2063 not a science.\u2063 Pretenses of\u2064 legitimacy\u2062 obscure its\u200c lack of scientific rigor and replicable research. When pressed on \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0031938422003420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biological facts<\/a> \u200c (such as male and\u200d female\u2064 differences in genetics, hormones, anatomy, \u200cand neurochemistry),\u2062 the answer is \u2063that what\u2063 leftists call \u201cgender\u201d is socially constructed and not\u200d a matter \u200bof natural science, something even the\u2064 World Health Organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/health-topics\/gender#tab=tab_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1017264612\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-03d40ed1f5894499036b9a8c70311013 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-03d40ed1f5894499036b9a8c70311013\"><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cNeither gender difference nor \u200bgender inequality is inevitable in the nature of things nor, more specifically, in the nature\u2062 of our bodies,\u201d<\/em> a highly acclaimed gender studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gendered-Society-Michael-Kimmel\/dp\/0199927464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">textbook<\/a> \u200cargues. Indeed, gender theorists deem the scientific method <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/027753959580031J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sexist<\/a> because it focuses on \u2062the facts of nature rather than \u200bclaims\u200d of personal\u2064 self-identity.<\/p>\n<h2>Political Doctrine,\u2063 Not Academic Discipline<\/h2>\n<p>At \u2064the\u2064 same time, the tendentious character \u2062of gender studies makes it more of a political \u200bmovement\u200c for social change than the proper subject \u2062of an\u2064 academic \u200bdiscipline. \u2062It does not stem \u200bfrom the liberal\u200c arts and falls well\u200b outside a \u200bhumanities focus. Though it is hailed\u200d as an interdisciplinary\u2064 field, gender studies doesn\u2019t do justice\u200b to the disciplines \u2062with which it engages;\u2064 instead,\u2063 it subverts them by cherry-picking whatever advances a gender studies agenda\u200b while largely \u200cignoring \u200canything\u2063 that would weaken its claims.<\/p>\n<p>The gender movement\u200c pays\u200c lip service\u2062 to critical\u200d thinking and freedom of speech even as it engenders closed-mindedness. Its experts <a href=\"https:\/\/quillette.com\/2018\/09\/07\/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/oct\/16\/academics-are-being-harassed-over-their-research-into-transgender-issues\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">harass<\/a> scholars (from\u2064 within \u2064and \u200cwithout \u200btheir field) who dare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/brown-u-scrubs-website-study-gender-confusion-pressure-transactivists-227093\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticize<\/a> gender theory\u2019s methods. Nothing could be further from the spirit of academic\u2064 inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>Ideological \u200cconformity within gender studies betrays\u200c the true \u2063nature of such programs. While dogmatically adhering to relativism\u2019s denial of objective truth, gender theorists\u2062 are always\u2063 eager to impose <strong>their<\/strong> truth on <strong>us<\/strong>. That is because gender theory grew from postmodernism\u2019s narrative of \u2062systemic oppression and its method of deconstruction.\u2062 Its proponents see advocacy, coercion,\u200c and even censorship as essential for social revolution along predetermined lines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8d0318faa704979608de14af1a960bdb fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8d0318faa704979608de14af1a960bdb\"><\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cOur field is inherently activist,\u201d<\/em> an Indiana University gender program <a href=\"https:\/\/gender.indiana.edu\/activism-resources\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proclaims<\/a>. <em>\u201cBecause we are\u2062 concerned \u200cwith the status of all \u200bmarginalized and oppressed groups, we\u2063 examine \u2064how gender, sex, and\u2063 sexuality are woven into the fabric of these groups and into social frameworks of power.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Turning Society into a Gender Studies Department<\/h2>\n<p>It is no coincidence that the recent proliferation of interdisciplinary studies about race and especially sex \u2014 feminist, lesbian, gay, queer, transgender \u2014 \u2063has metastasized beyond the faculty lounge\u200c to ravage the whole \u2064of higher education. The goal of programs\u200c such as gender studies \u2063is \u200cnot to discover knowledge\u200b but \u200bto remake the academy and society \u2063in its image. That\u2019s why the head\u200b of \u2064UCLA\u2019s gender program can confidently <a href=\"https:\/\/gender.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declare<\/a>, <em>\u201cWe will\u2062 continue to prepare students to become anti-colonial, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-college-of-florida-nukes-anti-science-gender-studies-so-real-disciplines-can-thrive\/\" title=\"New College of Florida prioritizes real disciplines, eliminates anti-science gender studies.\">anti-racist critical feminist thinkers ready<\/a> and able \u200cto confront\u2063 the immense\u2064 challenges of our\u200d times.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following these professed experts, powerful institutions warmly embrace the delusion that\u200d men can \u2063become women and\u2063 vice versa. And now we see this \u2062radical theory \u2062spreading throughout\u2062 society with\u2064 predictable results. Dissent is swiftly crushed.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/opinions\/a-major-blow-to-parental-rights-1668030235\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Indiana<\/a>, <strong>two parents lost \u200bcustody of\u2063 their child when they refused to deny their son\u2019s sex<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/proposed-hate-speech-law-in-michigan-threatens-first-amendment-rights-conservatives-warn-5329978\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michigan<\/a> nearly passed \u2064a\u200b bill that would have\u200b criminalized speech that \u201cmisgenders\u201d \u200dsomeone, with penalties ranging from\u200b a $10,000 fine to five \u200byears in prison.\u2062 In <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/roundups\/oregon-says-christian-mom-unfit-to-adopt-1683055346\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon<\/a>, the state deemed a prospective mother unsuitable to adopt or foster because she refused to support a child\u2019s transgender exploration. A court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/not-a-fundamental-right-maryland-court-strikes-down-parents-request-to-opt-kids-out-of-lgbt-curriculum\/?utm_source=email&#038;utm_medium=breaking&#038;utm_campaign=newstrack&#038;utm_term=32501252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryland<\/a> says parents do not have a fundamental right \u200cto remove their \u200bchildren from Montgomery County\u2019s\u200d gender curriculum, even if it conflicts with their religious views.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-24c9d9c4906d18e269755cb165f5c86e fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-24c9d9c4906d18e269755cb165f5c86e\"><\/div>\n<h2>Opening Inquiry by Ending Gender Studies<\/h2>\n<p>The immediate\u200c objection is that the Board of Trustees\u2019 decision to exclude\u200b a gender studies program from New College\u2019s liberal arts curriculum muzzles discussions of prominent social issues in the \u2063classroom. \u200dOn the contrary, this\u2064 decision will create a more thoughtful, mature, and rigorous consideration \u2063of such questions. Any\u200b substantial \u2063topic concerning sex \u2063can be addressed within existing academic fields \u2063\u2014 biology, \u200chistory, philosophy, and politics, to\u2062 name\u200c a few \u2014 and\u200d would \u200bbenefit from the\u200c scholarly attention and intellectual objectivity of those long-established disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200b the words of\u2062 John Henry Newman, <em>\u201cThe purpose of a university should be to train the mind to think, to think widely and deeply, to think inquisitively and originally.\u201d<\/em> Gender studies, with its preordained worldview,\u2064 insistence \u200bon ideological\u2063 conformity, and aim of social activism, is far removed from this educational ideal. By disbanding its gender studies program, New \u2062College of Florida has taken a significant step to safeguard the integrity of its liberal arts mission and\u200d academic work and to reaffirm its commitment to educational excellence and \u200cintellectual \u2062freedom.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-87f2eb4b56bd52f59391e640742bf96b fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-87f2eb4b56bd52f59391e640742bf96b\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the misallocation of resources affect the gender studies program at universities?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2062 Ul\/2021\/feb\/16\/why-did-the-university-of-chicago-censor-my-article&#8221;>suppress<\/a> research and viewpoints that challenge its dogma. This is not the behavior of a true academic discipline, but rather that of\u2063 a political ideology seeking to silence\u200b dissent and enforce \u200bconformity.<\/p>\n<h2>Misallocation of \u2064Resources<\/h2>\n<p>One of the main arguments against gender studies\u200d is the misallocation of resources. With limited funding and budget constraints, universities must prioritize disciplines that have a greater impact and provide measurable benefits to students and society. Gender studies, with\u200d its lack of scientific rigor and questionable intellectual\u2064 foundations, fails \u2064to\u200c meet this criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the job market for gender \u200cstudies\u2064 graduates is extremely limited.\u200b The\u200d skills\u200b and knowledge gained from gender \u200bstudies programs do not align with the \u2064demands of the labor market, resulting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/large-democrat-run-cities-lag-nation-in-job-recovery\/\" title=\"Large Democrat-Run Cities Lag Nation In Job Recovery\">high unemployment rates<\/a> among gender studies\u200c graduates. By eliminating gender\u2063 studies, universities can reallocate resources to programs that have higher demand and provide students with better\u2063 career prospects.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>The\u2063 decision to abolish \u200cthe gender studies\u200b program at \u2062New College of Florida is rooted in academic integrity and the responsible allocation of resources. Gender\u2064 studies, as a discipline, lacks scientific rigor and relies on political\u200c doctrine rather than academic principles. It fails\u2064 to meet \u200bthe standards of a legitimate academic discipline and diverts resources from more impactful and valuable programs. Critics may label\u200d it as an attack on education, but in reality, it is \u2063a necessary step towards ensuring a quality and relevant education for students.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I supported ending the gender studies program at New College of Florida. 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