will the last womyn's studies student please turn out the lights

**MAUS** · 8th-February-2008

This from the UK Telegraph today:

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The death of feminism at British universities
By Harry Mount
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 08/02/2008

Quietly, without much fanfare, women's studies has disappeared from British universities.

In the 70s, 80s and 90s, thousands of students across the country took the subject.

Over the last five years, numbers have dropped by 75 per cent and only 35 students are doing it this year. This summer, the last place offering the course, London Metropolitan University, is stopping women's studies altogether.
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The main feminist struggles have been won, and the more ludicrous ones - bra-burning, the insistence that all men are oppressors - have been quietly dropped.

I know no man under 40 who insists that his wife give up her job and cook him dinner every night. Who's now surprised to have a female boss or a female doctor? And there's not much point in studying, say, women's politics rather than just politics, when a woman has been the most powerful Prime Minister ever.

With feminist victories absorbed into mainstream thought, hardly anyone calls themselves a feminist these days. It's as dated as drenching yourself in patchouli or tie-dyeing your jeans.

Students have begun to realise, too, that women's studies is useless for getting you a job. It's no coincidence that the subject's collapse coincided with the introduction of tuition fees. The moment you start paying for something is the moment you consider whether it's really worthwhile.

When commentators ridiculed the course at its height as "Wimmin's Studies" the feminist movement could rejoice in furious disapproval by their enemies. When the students themselves started referring to it as "Cosmo Studies" - as students at Warwick University used to call it - the subject was doomed."

I understand that here in Canada the billiards franchise "Velvet Underground" is still hiring womyn's studies graduates as full time ball breakers.

**bachelor tom** · 8th-February-2008

Good riddance to bad rubbish

**Marx** · 8th-February-2008

Poor dears...

But that makes me feel:

**bobx23456** · 8th-February-2008

That is good news. I wonder if US universities are trending in the same direction. The local Uni here still has Womyn Studies majors.

A degree in "women studies" is not only not much help in getting a job, but is viewed as a strong negative by many employers. Females majoring in hate-men don't do well to socialize at work and are a big risk for "harassment" costs.

May the die in peace. May they be soon forgotten. Time to begin the work of repealing female suffrage.

Blessings
Bob

**Feminist_Scum** · 8th-February-2008

Got a link to the article?

Also, I hate the way they claim all young men don't want women in the kitchen. That's where women belong!! Sure, if women don't want to be in the kitchen, fine, let them do what they want, but that is their natural place.

**bobx23456** · 8th-February-2008

Do you have a URL for that Telegraph article?

thanks

Bob

**bobx23456** · 8th-February-2008

I found the article. The comments point out that "women's studies" is no where near as dead in the UK as the article claims.

Harry Mount information on the 'demise of' women's/ gender studies is ill informed. He presents opinion rather than fact. At least 9 London Universities offer women's/ gender degrees in London: LSE, UCL, SOAS, London Metropolitan, Goldsmiths, City University, East London University, Brikbeck University. Outside of London the list does on...Edinburgh, Essex, Sussex all offer gender/women's studies degrees. This does not mark the 'subject's collapse' as Mr Mount leads us to believe.

Academically the UK remains a strong centre for gender studies. Active women's rights groups are thriving. The Pro Choice (02/2008) and Reclaim the Right (11/2007) protests are packed with support.

And this one

Women’s Studies continues to be offered at the University of Westminster – the first institution to provide a certificated course in Women’s Studies in 1978 - as part of the combined studies programme in Social Sciences.

Several other comments seem to think that feminism is alive and well throughout the whole university, not only in a particular department.

Blessings

Bob

**Kim** · 8th-February-2008

There are still many universities that offer women's studies. I think the positive aspect of the article is that,

Over the last five years, numbers have dropped by 75 per cent

While not dead, there's been a notable decrease in demand.

**bobx23456** · 8th-February-2008

Quote from Kim

There are still many universities that offer women's studies. I think the positive aspect of the article is that,

While not dead, there's been a notable decrease in demand.

I wonder if the decline in demand is related to the older feminists whining about how they can't find a man. We've seen several of those articles lately. The more hate they learn, the less men want them.

Blessings

Bob

**Alexandra** · 10th-February-2008

Quote from Feminist_Scum

Got a link to the article?

Also, I hate the way they claim all young men don't want women in the kitchen. That's where women belong!! Sure, if women don't want to be in the kitchen, fine, let them do what they want, but that is their natural place.

My husband doesn't care about that so long as we have something to eat. Besides, if I'm in the kitchen ALL the time, how am I going to get laundry done?

**celtish** · 10th-February-2008

This is the link ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../08/do0806.xml

**Percy** · 11th-February-2008

The degree is not useless. It is a primary qualification for zozhal verkers.

While I am happy to see the programs decline, it is the damage done that is the problem. It will take a generation to get rid of its effects.