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Dunno how I feel about this one.
Technically it is just. Legally it is sound. Ethically it is proper.
But I don't know, it somehow seems like tearing down statues and rewriting history
Dumb take. Women outnumber men in education, get more scholarship opportunities, massively benefit from affirmative action, and are constantly sought out for diversity positions
I might be in favour of women-only scholarships -- despite the incomprehensible number of advantages that women and girls enjoy in K-12 and post-secondary education -- if there were a proportional number of men's scholarships. But there are effectively no male scholarships, so fuck 'em.
“Men in Liberal Arts” or, I dunno, “Men in English Lit”, or hell, “Men in Primary Education” just hasn’t got the same credo as “Women in STEM” or “Girls in Engineering and Physics”, now does it..?
They absolutely know this. They’ve known this for, I’m gonna guess, a couple of decades. And yet, we see zero effort, at a tertiary level, to “correct” that…
Hmm, I wonder why..?
Though fuck it, I fucked up and lost a scholarship (because I sort of lost myself, for a while there). I really don’t have the right to be too bitter about this shit. But… Facts are that this certainly only seems to go one way.
Sure, but at least in Ontario (where I'm from) there are more female students in law, medicine, veterinary school, and grad school than male students. Those fields have massive draw and competition, unlike "liberal arts" etc.
I mean, if it was “trans activists” that caused this, then yeah, I guess, but I don’t know if it was, so…
To use their own language, conditions “in the academy” have materially changed massively in that time. I honestly don’t think women are “disadvantaged”, any more, in college, in any way that this sort of program would help…
So… While this feels like a retrograde step, you could also argue that it just means… That it isn’t really necessary anymore.
Maybe it was once. Maybe it wasn’t. But it certainly doesn’t feel “needed”, now…
I'm under no illusion that they should be taken at their word that it would be for anyone other than women and the troons
That said, it's absolutely a statue being torn down
Loss of freedom of association.