Your new overlords

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Ophelia Benson

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Why are universities letting angry teenagers write their policies?

Naturally I was curious so I went to read it, and again found the familiar combination of aggressive ignorance and baseless assertion, rather than something composed by informed academics.

Then I went back a category, to the Learn More section of Edinburgh’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion whatever this is – instruction book, explanation, authoritative setting out of the facts – and found the all too predictable Forgotten Item indeed not there.

Nothing about women then? No need to worry about including women? Women not a subordinated set of people at all? Nobody hates women? Nobody disbelieves them? Nobody mistrusts them?

Why weren’t we told?

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4 responses to “Your new overlords”

  1. Blood Knight in Sour Armor Avatar
    Blood Knight in Sour Armor

    Not seeing sexuality either… then again the movement is inherently misogynist and perhaps to a lesser extent homophobic, so hardly surprising.

  2. Ophelia Benson Avatar
    Ophelia Benson

    Plus it takes so much more effort to ignore women, what with us being half the population and all.

  3. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    Plus it takes so much more effort to ignore women, what with us being half the population and all.

    Mind you, several millenia of practicing the skill can make it lot easier to do.

  4. Your Name's not Bruce? Avatar
    Your Name’s not Bruce?

    An excellent response to the university here: https://xxnetwork.co.uk/2021/01/16/response-what-is-transphobia/

    We are concerned that students may reasonably conclude that this information has been fact checked and approved by the university given its publication on the official website. We would recommend that a disclaimer is added above the article clarifying that the views expressed belong to the author and do not reflect the official views of the university. We also suggest that university managers investigate how the article came to be published in its current form, and take steps to prevent a re-occurrence.

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