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This nationwide trend is getting worse. Public school unions are dominated by feminists who have weighted teacher compensation in a way that is more attractive to women than men, i.e., toward generous retirement packages rather than better salaries based on merit, especially for teaching the more difficult subjects.

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She specifically wrote that, if passed, it would mean that men could not be excluded from women's washrooms.

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Is President George W. Bush a feminist, or is he just a typical gentleman who is intimidated by feminists and unable to cope with their unreasonable demands, tantrums and rudeness? When it comes to public policy and personnel appointments, the result is the same.

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Please try to relax.

P.S. I helped *write* the policy.

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[ 30 April 2006: Message edited by: Reality. Bites. ]

I should know by now that this board has different rules depending on whether your really part of this community or merely someone who occasionally posts.

My fault I will ask in the future whether the poster is an exempt "real" Babble poster and has carte blanche to post what they like because everyone knows they are good and true Babblers.

People often post anti-feminist articles in the feminism forum in order to share the icky stuff that's out there with other feminists. Maybe it wasn't immediately obvious that writer was being sarcastic in her opening post, but I think most people could figure it out in a few moments.

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Yeah, because having a penis makes you better at teaching the more difficult subjects.

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Originally posted by Timebandit:

Yeah, because having a penis makes you better at teaching the more difficult subjects.

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Not to defend the author, but I think the reasoning is more that men are more competitive whilst women seek more security. So the retirement package would attract more women because they plan ahead for their old days whilst men get bored because they aren't rewarded for being better teachers (or teachers of more difficult matters), so they're repusled by the working conditions.

Now, I don't agree with such reasoning, but I think that this is what was meant.

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Nor do we hear anything about spending taxpayer funds to force universities to attract more men into the soft Liberal Arts subjects that now have a big majority of women students.

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Interesting that the standard changes here. For the rest of the article the comparison is male/female teachers but when it comes to "soft" Liberal Arts, the comparison is male teacher to female students. Why?

FWIW the English Lit profs at my BA university were all male. And viciously sexist to boot. They didn't consider Hemingway novels a "soft" subject matter.

With regards to "The Bush Administration is now getting ready to apply this same mindless mentality to math and science departments, which are predominately male because men are more interested in those fields than women and score significantly higher on math and science aptitude tests" and "There isn't a shred of evidence that women are discriminated against in math and science; there are no separate tracks for men's math and women's math" she seems completely oblivious to the ways women are gendered or engineered if you will from birth to like certain things. Conservatives in general like small government that has no involvement in social issues- another reason I'm NOT a conservative- it is the government's job to care for ALL its people, and this means seeking equality for women in society. The author of this article seems to see all those poor patriarchal institutions are being victimized- which is nice and ironic given that it's the oposite.

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Originally posted by Pride for Red Dolores:
Conservatives in general like small government that has no involvement in social issues- another reason I'm NOT a conservative- it is the government's job to care for ALL its people, and this means seeking equality for women in society.

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