Some Animals Are More Excludable...
If treating men like they don't matter (or don't even exist) is your version of equality, you were never for equality -- you were for discrimination. You just needed to be in power to start doing the discriminating.
Adam Kissel writes for James G. Martin Center about discrimination against men at North Carolina universities:
The University of North Carolina has been coed only since 1963. African American men had been admitted eight years earlier. Wake Forest University had already been admitting women since 1942, and Duke University since 1897--60 years after its founding as a male-only preparatory school.Sometime between 1963 and today, however, sex discrimination at UNC has turned in the opposite direction. This is not due to numbers--UNC has 1.4 women undergraduates for each man, and it has 1.2 women on its faculty for each man. Disparate outcomes are not clear evidence of discrimination. But the university does maintain many programs that actively discriminate against men by providing opportunities exclusively for women.
While discrimination on the basis of race might remain legal, for a while, in the area of college admissions, there is no excuse for discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs. Universities themselves ban this kind of discrimination, and so do city, county, and state laws. At the federal level, sex discrimination violates Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity at any university that receives federal financial assistance. Sex discrimination involving faculty and staff also likely violates labor law.
Unfortunately, UNC is far from the only university in North Carolina that discriminates unlawfully. The three largest public universities (and the two largest private universities) in the state maintain dozens of discriminatory programs, as discussed in this report.
Tens of thousands of male students, staff, and faculty members at those five universities alone are limited in their access to education programs and activities that are for women only. Some of these programs even discriminate in favor of girls and against boys in the local community.Accordingly, I have filed discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Charlotte, North Carolina State University, and Wake Forest University.
AWESOME!
And yes, I say that as a woman.
If you're for individual rights, you're for the individual rights of all people.
Some examples of sex discrimination:
At least a dozen UNC [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] programs discriminate on the basis of sex. These programs mainly involve business programs and STEM (science, technology, engineering, or math) programs that are for women--but not men.• UNC's Center for Faculty Excellence holds a monthly"Women ADVANCE Leadership" educational program, "a workshop series to encourage and support mid-career women faculty."
• UNC's Womxn of Worth Initiative "creates and sustains a community for womxn of color and womxn who identify as members of underrepresented racial and ethnic populations [but not other races and ethnicities, and no men] that will promote academic preparedness, holistic student wellness and success, identity development, and sisterhood."
• Carolina Women in Business(CWIB), in UNC's business school, has a mission "to create a lasting impact for women in the workplace [not similarly situated men] by providing opportunities for career and personal development." The program states, "We create events that bring value to women [not men] in their current pursuits and future careers."
Others at the link.
Adam's concluding remark:
This report examines just five of North Carolina's largest universities. It seems likely that other universities in the UNC system follow the same pattern, providing evidence that systemic sexism is rampant across the entire system. Those discriminatory programs probably violate not just federal nondiscrimination law, but also state and local nondiscrimination laws and the universities' own nondiscrimination policies.In the name of diversity, equity, and inclusion, North Carolina universities have often chosen inequity and exclusion.








Womxn? Seriously?
If you ever needed hard proof that these people, despite their academic credentials, are trivial thinkers, this is it.
Conan the Grammarian at December 10, 2020 5:42 AM
Good. I'm glad someone is willing to put in the work to improve this.
Ben at December 10, 2020 5:48 AM
Tried arguing this with someone who claimed to be in the business of studying such discrimination. He was proud of how much they had shifted it. Their shifting of goalposts was basically that anti male discrimination isn’t that big a issue if you include community colleges, and soon they may need to add in trade school faculty to keep the numbers showng anti woman discrimination.Pretty much ended any communications. Since that much goal post shift showed there was never a goal of equality in universities.
Joe j at December 10, 2020 6:33 AM
I have filed discrimination complaints with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Charlotte, North Carolina State University, and Wake Forest University.
Good luck with that. I don't know whom is going to be appointed to head DOE, but I suspect the "Dear Colleague" letter will be resent shortly after 20 January 2021.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 10, 2020 7:52 AM
As Instapundit has noted: when the public loses it's appetite for funding higher ed, that sentiment will be blamed on anti-intellectualism.
I R A Darth Aggie at December 10, 2020 7:53 AM
While women-only groups are prima facie evidence of discrimination, the ratio on campus in general would be the result of one of two things; positive discrimination in admissions, or differing interest into a four year degree.
The former likely can be discovered in discovery.
The latter....hard to pin on any one thing.
Vicious Title IX actions no doubt discourage some guys. They might even be students who see something like this and then quit.
Some anecdata: Some time back, had a heating/air/conditioning guy out to fix something or other. He mentioned he and his daughter ride both western and dressage. And compete. I believe that's expensive.
Talking to the guy who was pumping out our septic about driving truck and managing trailers and so forth. He drives wreckers on the weekend. Said he has to really anticipate the facilities--can you get out of a particular gas station--when he and his family are traveling with their thirty-five foot travel trailer.
I wonder if either of them regret the financial opportunities they missed by not going to college.
Let's say they didn't spend $100k on the process. Figure compounding at four percent, it's probably more than twice that now, guessing their age.
Richard Aubrey at December 10, 2020 4:17 PM
gUrls in skOOl .
Crid at December 10, 2020 10:58 PM
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