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Teaching Literary Feminism

Posted on | April 30, 2015 | 68 Comments

“Why invite the potential headaches of teaching a lesbian graphic novel in a religious institution?” asks Professor Scott A. Dimowitz in an essay published in an academic anthology this month. “In the course of several iterations of a class on Literary Feminism that I teach at Regis University, a Jesuit school in Denver, Colorado, I have used Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and selections from her long-running comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For to explain postmodern life narratives that incorporate nontraditional matter and a nodding acquaintance with Roman Catholic Church doctrine.”

Perhaps the disclosure of Professor Dimowitz’s curriculum is shocking to some alumni of Regis University and to Catholics who don’t realize how “postmodern life narratives,” including feminist gender theory, now pervade academia. As I previously explained (“Introduction to Feminist Theory”), “there are very good reasons why the proceedings in Women’s Studies courses are generally not discussed outside the classroom.” If parents and alumni were aware of what was being taught in these programs, and if voters understood how taxpayer subsidies to higher education are helping fund such ideological indoctrination on campus, we might expect a political firestorm to erupt. One can easily imagine a congressional committee hearing on what Professor Glenn Reynolds has called The Higher Education Bubble, where the “Your Tax Dollars At Work” aspect of this nonsense could be exposed to public scrutiny.

There are now Women’s Studies programs at some 700 U.S. colleges and universities, enrolling more than 90,000 students annually, and these programs are the intellectual command centers of the Feminist-Industrial Complex. Many thousands of professors are employed to teach courses in this interdisciplinary field. Carmen Rios, the self-described “raging lesbian feminist” who is Communications Coordinator at the Feminist Majority Foundation, has explained:

Is it Gender Studies? Women’s Studies? Women’s And Gender Studies? Sexuality Studies? Gender and Sexuality Studies? LGBT Studies? Queer Studies? Feminist Studies? . . . Women’s Studies remains an interdisciplinary field, making its name all the more difficult to decide on. Is it Women’s History and Theory, or is the program really Lesbo Recruitment 101?

She said that, not me. Regis University describes its program:

Women’s and Gender Studies examines the intersections of gender, race, and class, and also considers how gender roles are constructed in different global cultures and historical periods. Women have made important contributions in traditionally defined “male pursuits” (politics, science, art, etc.) Although traditionally understudied, women’s experiences and participation have led to the reexamination of long-held interpretations and conventional wisdoms in a wide variety of academic fields. Uniting all women and gender studies inquiries is the effort to understand and explain inequality between men and women, and to envision the possibility of new social practices that could bring about greater equality, mutual understanding, and human flourishing.

And also, lesbian comic books. Professor Dimowitz explains that he teaches Bechdel’s cartoons because this helps “defamiliarize traditional linguistic life narratives and form a uniquely productive site of tension and destabilization of students’ assumptions about gender, sexuality, and the very nature of what constitutes aesthetic merit, which few of the other traditional texts were able to achieve to the same extent.”

Exactly how does all this relate to the aims of a Catholic university? Professor Dimowitz is eager to explain:

To be clear about my own position . . . I was raised in a particularly strict form of Pennsylvanian, Croatian-immigrant Roman Catholicisim. . . . Years later I find myself teaching Catholic students, although Regis is a Jesuit university and Jesuits have always been more of a distinctly unconventional form of Catholicism. . . . As a specialist in postmodern literature and gender studies, I have an investment in engaging students in open discussions about representations of gender and sexuality in contemporary literature and culture.

Hmmm. So now the professor talks about his Literary Feminism class:

The course is offered as part of Regis University’s Integrative Core Curriculum, which was established in 2009, seeking to integrate juniors’ and seniors’ understanding of four key areas: (1) Diversity and Cultural Tradition, (2) Global Environmental Awareness, (3) Justice and the Common Good, and (4) The Search for Meaning. As a Diversity and Cultural Tradition course, Literary Feminism has two pragmatic goals, among others: (1) to introduce students to the idea of gender as a performative act, and (2) to understand the complexities and varieties of human sexual expression and representation. These goals reflect an overall tolerant approach to the study of gender and sexuality. . . .

So here we find the postmodern “idea of gender as a performative act,” i.e., the social construction of the gender binary within the heterosexual matrix. One wonders what would be the reaction to Professor Dimowitz’s recitation of all this academic jargon, if you could present it to the devout priests who established this university, originally called Sacred Heart College, in the 19th century? One wonders, indeed, what the Pope must think of this, considering how he has twice in recent months condemned gender theory. In an interview with Italian journalists Andrea Tornielli and Giacomo Galeazzi, Pope Francis compared gender theory to the doctrines of the Hitler Youth and, on April 15, Pope Francis described “so-called gender theory” as “an expression of frustration and resignation that aims to erase sexual differentiation because it no longer knows how to come to terms with it.” Anyone who expects Catholic institutions of higher education to heed the Pope and fight against the nihilistic doctrine of gender theory, however, will be disappointed to discover what Professor Dimowitz is teaching at Regis University:

This graphic nature of the form is clear throughout Bechdel’s 2006 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, a darkly humorous coming-of-age memoir of Bechdel’s childhood growing up in a funeral home run by her father, a closeted homsexual who was also a high school English teacher with a penchant for seducing some of his male students.

(Feminist Literature is so wholesome and inspiring!)

The book cycles its meditations around the event of Bechdel’s father’s death, which she believes may have been a suicide. Juxtaposing her own coming out story as a lesbian against her father’s inability to lead an authentic existence. Bechdel in Fun Home metanarratively meditates on the nature of life writing. . . . The book is frank about sexuality and blunt about her father’s statutory rapes of high school boys, and the text even includes several panels in which Bechdel recreated imagined scenes of seduction of these students. Bechdel struggles to understand her ambivalent responses to her father’s death while trying to unify a life narrative out of the fractured collage of documents and memories.

Again: Why is this being taught in a Catholic university? Do the parents who are paying $33,060 a year to send their children to Regis University have any clue what is being taught there? Does anyone even care? Professor Dimowitz says 70 percent of freshmen at Regis “self-identify as Roman Catholic.” However:

Many incoming students . . . have a rather cavalier attitude toward Church orthodoxy, which is part of an overall movement in contemporary attitudes. In America, especially, belief in strict Vatican law is clearly trending away from dogma. . . . According to a 2011 Pew survey of Americans, clear majorities “across most demographic groups say homosexuality should be accepted by society” and not discouraged or ignored (which are the two other categories). Interestingly, Catholics, in general, favor acceptance at 64 percent, which compares positively to the overall population’s acceptance, which is only 58 percent.

Here it should be pointed out that the choices Pew offered — whether homosexuality should be “accepted,” “ignored” or “discouraged” — omit other alternatives, particularly “tolerated,” i.e., an attitude somewhere in the range of “live and let live” or ‘who the hell cares?” This kind of toleration of homosexuality has in fact been widespread in America for decades, even while gay activists have hyped up claims that America is gripped by “homophobia.” So, sure, given the three choices the Pew poll offered, most people would say “accepted,” particular because they know that’s the answer they’re supposed to choose. We return to Professor Dimowitz’s discussion:

This general trending toward acceptance [of homosexuality], especially among millennials, opens up a fertile space for dialogue with students of a traditional college age.

(Professor Dimowitz gets paid to have a “dialogue” about gayness with college kids, and he seems quite eager to do so.)

When asked in a survey, “How did you feel about our openly discussing homosexuality in a Catholic school?” the Regis students were overwhelmingly positive. . . . Of course, part of this positivity is perhaps a function of Regis University’s generally progressive Jesuit orientation, and the question might receive a different response from a far more conservative school.

The bottom line, then, is that Professor Dimowitz and the administration at Regis University are comfortable with the idea that moral issues should be determine by (a) public opinion polls, or (b) “progressive Jesuit orientation,” and certainly not by (c) that old-fashioned “Thou shalt not” stuff in the Bible. Any institutional resistance we might have expected Catholic educators to make against society’s drift toward nihilism has been swept away. A progressive devotion to radical egalitarianism (the heretical “liberation theology” that embraced Marxist revolutionary movements in Latin America during the 1980s) steadily replaces devotion to God at institutions like Regis University.

Being “conformed to this world,” they teach “doctrines of devils.”

“Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon. . . . He is a liar. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Damien, and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that — do not listen.”
— The Exorcist (1973)

Nobody believes in that kind of stuff anymore, I guess.





 

Category: Catholics, Education, Sex Trouble

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68 Responses to “Teaching Literary Feminism”

  1. Mike G.
    April 30th, 2015 @ 9:53 pm

    Dude! We really appreciate you digging through all this crap and translating it for us

    Thank the Good Lord that you have the stomach for it because I sure as hell don’t!

  2. RKae
    April 30th, 2015 @ 10:07 pm

    The youth who gleefully accept this cultural shift and pat themselves on the back for being so sophisticated appear to have NO IDEA that when the New Testament was written, the Apostles were knee-deep in the Roman Empire: a world filled with homosexuality, legal prostitution, temple whores, leaders committing incest, etc.

    They act like, “Oh, when the Bible was written they just weren’t aware of sexuality.”

  3. concern00
    April 30th, 2015 @ 10:16 pm

    “the possibility of new social practices that could bring about greater equality, mutual understanding, and human flourishing.”

    In typically Orwellian style, they actually deliver the opposite of the the three things that they purport to “bring about.”

  4. RS
    April 30th, 2015 @ 10:23 pm

    Religious institutions of higher learning were some of the first places to be infiltrated on the Progressive Left’s Long March through Education. The mission has been the same: destroy the Christian foundation of the institution’s mission. Certainly, most of the larger nominally Christian universities have gone off the rails and are Christian in name only.

  5. Daniel Freeman
    April 30th, 2015 @ 10:34 pm

    Every generation thinks they invented sex.

  6. Daniel Freeman
    April 30th, 2015 @ 10:50 pm

    My introduction to “social justice” was at a Jesuit high school around 1990, plus and minus. Although “liberation theology” had an influence, my understanding of it included such things as seeing how the improperly-constructed incentives of welfare programs were breaking up families. That was the government doing something that hurt people: a social injustice.

    For today’s SJWs, that would be seen as a feature, not a bug; what was a man doing walking around with his “f—ing rapestick” in the same house as women and children anyway? I would never use the term “social justice” now, since its meaning has become so Orwellian.

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  8. DeadMessenger
    April 30th, 2015 @ 11:22 pm

    You’re right about that. Not too long ago, I was considering taking a doctorate in Theology at Liberty, just for fun, and then I saw some distinctly un-Christian behaviors by some of their students on youtube. So I decided that if God wanted me to do that, He’d cover the tuition and give me a ride there.

  9. DeadMessenger
    April 30th, 2015 @ 11:40 pm

    They have no idea, because they weren’t taught it in their flippin’ schools. I don’t have personal info on this, but I’m guessing not even in Christian school.

    They are busy with their apps and games and music and messaging on their little iPhones, while my iPad (bigger print, ’cause I’m old) has Bible translations, commentaries, Strong’s concordance, historical atlases, Greek and Hebrew interlinears, etc.

    This differential is not entirely their fault. They’re kids; of course they’re idiots. But anytime I get a chance to talk about the amazingly cool stuff in the Bible to teens, they’re always agog – they had no idea. However, I seldom get a chance to talk to young’uns about the Bible. I’m just too “politically incorrect”, and parents don’t like it.

    But you don’t think I’m politically incorrect, do you, RKae? Wouldn’t you let me tell your kids or grandkids awesome stories about the Judge, Deborah? Or how historical documents have shown that during the time of David and Goliath, there were giant Nephilim in the Spartan army…one historian writing that one such soldier had a kneecap the size of a discus? Seriously, aren’t those cool things that people ought to know? And that kids would want to know?

  10. DeadMessenger
    April 30th, 2015 @ 11:43 pm

    Well, yeah, because our ancestors only “did it” as many times as they had kids. And they certainly didn’t enjoy it – that’s just gross.

  11. DeadMessenger
    April 30th, 2015 @ 11:52 pm

    You’re sure right about the term “social justice”. I would consider juries finding in favor of George Zimmerman and Darren Wilson to be “social justice”. But then, I guess that’s just “actual justice” and doesn’t count because it’s now frowned upon.

    But, you know, we’re starting to see “social justice” enacted upon innocent Christians, and we’ll see more of it exponentially when SCOTUS finds the words “same-sex marriage” in the Constitution somewhere.

  12. Finrod Felagund
    May 1st, 2015 @ 12:49 am

    Every generation invents new names for sex, it seems.

  13. Fail Burton
    May 1st, 2015 @ 1:33 am

    There’s probably more honesty and accurate info in S. Clay Wilson’s Zap Comix story Capt. Pissgums and His Pervert Pirates than Dimwitz and Bechdel’s views from inside their own insanity.

  14. K-Bob
    May 1st, 2015 @ 2:32 am

    That’s disgusting. Which is why my brother and I used to read it.

  15. Steve Skubinna
    May 1st, 2015 @ 5:26 am

    It’s just as when you read anything proclaiming “I support free speech, but…” you can bet the next phrase will be a call to restrict or ban free speech.

  16. Steve Skubinna
    May 1st, 2015 @ 5:30 am

    Any time you find it necessary to modify a concept such as “justice” it’s a safe bet that what you’re really doing is eroding it. Justice is justice, whoever you are.

    Social justice is really special pleading. How else can you justify placing “Black lives matter” above “All lives matter,” and claiming that the latter is racist?

  17. Steve Skubinna
    May 1st, 2015 @ 5:37 am

    My all time favorite underground comics were the ones by the sadly short lived Vaughn Bode. Cheech Wizard, Junkwaffel, Deadbone and a few others.

    Dan O’Neill was also pretty good. I just checked Wikipedia and it claims he’s still drawing Odd Bodkins.

  18. robertstacymccain
    May 1st, 2015 @ 6:03 am

    Readers might not know that as a boy I had exhibited a talent for cartooning and, as a young teenager, became a huge fan of what were then called underground comics. “The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” were more or less my personal heroes when I was 15. At that time, however, nobody thought we should be using this stuff as educational curriculum. As teenagers, we read all kinds of books — including The Exorcist, The Godfather and Hell’s Angels — that were approved by neither our parents nor our teachers.

    Nowadays, I suppose, kids never read any book unless it is assigned as coursework, so it is necessary that the assigned texts indoctrinate kids in the Official Liberal-Approved Worldview.

  19. Zohydro
    May 1st, 2015 @ 6:07 am

    In the snow, with little food and no “protection”, with painful and disfiguring skin conditions… And they were grateful!

  20. robertstacymccain
    May 1st, 2015 @ 6:08 am

    Youth today generally know nothing of history. Try to find anyone under 50 who has read Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

    Education today doesn’t teach facts. It’s about indoctrinating kids with the appropriate attitude which (surprise!) is the same liberal attitude that their (Democrat-voting, union-organized, government-employed) teachers embrace.

  21. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:29 am

    If there is a “Cliff’s Notes” for the book, it isn’t likely they will even read the book.

  22. Squid Hunt
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:29 am

    You need to find an independent baptist church. You’re in Florida. There should be about 30 within an hour of you. Look for one that has fundamental and King James only. They’ll let you teach all the Bible. 😉

  23. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:31 am

    The term “Social Justice Warrior” (SJW) has become pejorative as no word of the term applies to them. SJWs hate the term, making it even better.

  24. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:33 am

    Liberty generally does not allow unchristian behavior and will discipline the miscreants if caught. I’ve known a number of their products and wouldn’t hesitate to go there myself.

  25. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:34 am

    Shack!

  26. Gunga
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:35 am

    You should get Amazon to package your book with Gibbon’s…it would be a like a one-two punch to the face of Post Modernism. If Post Modernism had a face it would be the one pictured above, btw.

    Also, I keep noticing the parallels between your feminuts articles and the arguments of the hot/cold/wet/dry kooks. It’s like two sides of the same coin…minted by totalitarian, control-freak, nut jobs…

  27. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:38 am

    I would stay far away from the KJO crowd. We don’t use the KJ exclusively, but we don’t back down from any of it. I use the NKJV and much of my church uses the ESV. I don’t like the ESV because of some of it is just awkward (I don’t like the what Dr. Letis called the “Scholarly” text either), even more so than the KJ. NKJV also lets me use pretty much the same study aids, and NKJV and ESV are also available for ESword.

  28. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:39 am

    I fear for his mental balance, however. While there is a need for what he’s doing, such things can have bad effects in a man exposed to such lies.

  29. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:41 am

    That package would be HUGE. I doubt 1 in 10 would read it even then. Plus, Gibbon had a thing about Christianity. he blamed the Church for the fall of Rome. That’s a vile calumny as the Church had no real influence until after the fall of Rome was pretty much a certainty.

  30. Squid Hunt
    May 1st, 2015 @ 7:45 am

    The point was she wanted to teach without worrying about PC. King James only will get her that in Florida. I’ve never had an issue reading or teaching King James, though. It’s been praised as one of the most elegant books ever written. Don’t know where you get awkward.

  31. Steve Skubinna
    May 1st, 2015 @ 8:07 am

    My pioneer grandmother once killed a bear with her Sybian.

  32. Steve Skubinna
    May 1st, 2015 @ 8:10 am

    Some years ago my sister gave me a Kindle for Christmas. I was agnostic at first until I realized what a boon it is for travel. Books that I already have on the shelf but won’t lug around in my suitcase can be had free or for a pittance. I downloaded both Gibbon and Theodor Momssen for a total of $1.99. You can get Suetonius, Thucydides, Tacitus, Herodotus for next to nothing.

  33. Gunga
    May 1st, 2015 @ 8:39 am

    Q – Don’t big packages from Amazon make you smile?

    Gibbon gives a pretty accurate go at Roman capacities for excess…which make youth look absolutely prim by comparison. The special snowflakes really need to know that what they think is “brand new” is actually covered in ancient finger prints, crusty scabs and millions of ruined lives pointing the way back from destruction.

    Also, I think it’s an error to confuse the power of early Christianity with the power of the Church, but we can discuss that over a pint sometime…my treat.

  34. darthlevin
    May 1st, 2015 @ 9:07 am

    The list of so-called Catholic universities is dwindling rapidly. I’m about two more incidents from banning Childe the Eldeste from getting what passes for higher education.

  35. Durasim
    May 1st, 2015 @ 9:25 am

    We thank Mr. McCain for undertaking the dark burden of reading Alison Bechdel’s so-called “work.”

    On the subject of Bechdel, I honestly wonder how many people except lesbian-feminists or persons studying lesbian-feminism actually bother to read her “comics” or “graphic novels” or whatever else she calls it.

    People who have any experience of popular culture today probably have a passing awareness of something called the “Bechdel Test.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test

    This is probably because intellectuals, pundits, commentators, social justice warriors and the like dutifully chirp and disseminate it over whatever medium they can. But as a result of this dissemination, even conservatives or people who resent feminism probably have some general idea that this “Bechdel Test” is some kind of feminist ideological metric applied to books, films, shows, other works of fiction, etc.

    Compared to people who know about the “Bechdel Test,” how many people have actually read the works of Alison Bechdel? My guess is that the amount is microscopic in comparison.

    The fact that Bechdel has already achieved a level of cultural currency for her “Test” while her supposed works remain obscure should demonstrate something. Just like Lindy West is supposedly a comedian, yet nobody can actually recall any notable joke, punchline, stand-up routine, or anything funny that she has done. If anybody knows anything about Lindy West, it is probably something about her grievance columns in which she denounces something for being sexist and misogynistic and demands that it conform itself to feminist precepts.

    Persons like Bechdel and West have a function, which is not to actually create art or content. Their function is to denounce, police, confine, and edit such content in the name of an ideology. If by some chance Alison Bechdel or Lindy West are remembered beyond this age, they will not be remembered as “artists” or “writers.” They should be remembered as something akin to the Goskomizdat or Goskino, decreeing whether a work will be permitted as sufficiently “progressive” or denounced for being “reactionary.”

  36. ChandlersGhost
    May 1st, 2015 @ 10:05 am

    Christianity Incorporated appears to be dying. Good riddance.

  37. RS
    May 1st, 2015 @ 10:09 am

    The KJV Bible is one of the three things–along with Shakespeare and Greek mythology– which all Americans used to have in common. The problem with newer translations is, in order to get a copyright, there must a substantial number of changes to the prior text. Many of those changes are theologically unsound.

  38. RS
    May 1st, 2015 @ 10:11 am

    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are a good read, as well.

  39. RKae
    May 1st, 2015 @ 10:42 am

    There should be no copyright on it – translation or otherwise. It’s supposed to be beyond that.

    If someone thinks he OWNS the Bible… woe betide that fool!

  40. RKae
    May 1st, 2015 @ 10:43 am

    I’m King James all the way, baby! None of this modern translation nonsense for me! Growing up with KJV made Shakespeare completely understandable.

  41. K-Bob
    May 1st, 2015 @ 11:25 am

    Gilbert Shelton and R. Crumb were probably the best known in the “comix” world centered on the San Francisco scene. (Shelton used to live and work in Austin, Tx. I went to Austin and visited the bar/venue that Shelton made famous by making some of the most awesome posters in the history of music.)

    I liked the Cheech Wizard stuff. Bode made it to the big time with the full color stuff in National Lampoon. I suspect Bode was a major inspiration to the Heavy Metal (and Metal Hurlant in France) glossy magazine comics. His art was closer to folks like Moebius (Jean Giraud).

  42. Prime Director
    May 1st, 2015 @ 11:35 am

    The social revolution of the twenty first century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future.

    It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past. The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smother their own content. The revolution of the twenty first century must let the dead bury their dead in order to arrive at its own content.

    Who needs western civ? The social justice solons are writing revolutionary history today.

  43. Zohydro
    May 1st, 2015 @ 11:59 am

    My grandmother built Liberty ships with her Hitachi!

  44. Prime Director
    May 1st, 2015 @ 12:04 pm

    if you want to have a good laugh about the origins of communism, read Murray Rothbard’s “Karl Marx as Religious Eschatologist.”

    My parents are both old-school Cold Warriors; and every now-and-then, if one of them is feeling down and needs a good laugh, I’ll read aloud from “Communism as the Kingdom of God on Earth: From Joachim to Muntzer” to “Communism as the Kingdom of God on Earth: The Takeover of Münster”.

    Muntzer, Matthys and Bockelson are the three stooges of the early communism.

    My favorite part:

    At that point, the great Peasants’ War erupted throughout Germany, a rebellion by the peasantry in favor of their local autonomy, and opposing the new, centralizing, high-tax rule of the German princes. In the process of crushing the feebly armed peasantry, the princes came to Muhlhausen on May 15, and offered amnesty to the peasants if they would hand over Müntzer and his immediate followers. The peasants were tempted, but Müntzer, holding aloft his naked sword, gave his last flaming speech, declaring that God had personally promised him victory, that he would catch all the enemy cannonballs in the sleeves of his cloak, and that God would protect them all.

    At a climactic moment in Müntzer’s speech, a rainbow appeared in the heavens. Since Müntzer had adopted the rainbow as the symbol of his movement, the credulous peasantry naturally interpreted this event as a veritable Sign from heaven. Unfortunately, the Sign failed to work, and the princes’ army crushed the peasantry, killing 5,000 while losing only half a dozen men. Müntzer himself fled and hid, but was captured soon after, tortured into confession, and duly executed.

  45. Dana
    May 1st, 2015 @ 1:20 pm

    Our esteemed host documented:

    There are now Women’s Studies programs at some 700 U.S. colleges and universities, enrolling more than 90,000 students annually,

    Really? That’s an average of 128.57 students per program!

    So, for programs which prepare students to do exactly one thing, go to graduate school to try to get your Mistress degree or PhD in Wimmins studies, to try to become a professor of womyn’s studies, to compete for maybe three professorships every ten years at these universities, there are 128.57 students enrolled in the programs?

    Their motto? Cum fricta velis?

  46. RKae
    May 1st, 2015 @ 2:13 pm

    Have a nice time with Atheism Incorporated and Shrieking Loony Queers Incorporated!

    Bound to make for a bee-ay-YOOO-ti-ful world!

  47. Fail Burton
    May 1st, 2015 @ 2:35 pm

    The best satire offers the most stark truths. What feminism claims to satirize and critique is more or less hollow. Were that not so I might be a feminist. Feminism, like all conservative constructs, has no ability to mock itself. You will never see these people create something like a screwball lesbian comedy. They are incapable of it.

  48. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 4:41 pm

    Don’t make the mistake of conflating the Church with the Roman Catholic Church. Augustine is seen by many as the founding theologian of the Roman Catholic Church and he died as the Vandals were pouding on the gates of Hippo. So, the only Church that could have played any part in the fall of Rome was the Church that existed prior to the early division between east and west.

  49. K-Bob
    May 1st, 2015 @ 4:42 pm

    http://www.theragblog.com/wp-content/uploads/blogger/_HyyDHyAwI6k/S5VqYSVy6jI/AAAAAAAAIX0/ydT4XDHzHA8/s400/franklin%2Btruckin.gif

  50. Quartermaster
    May 1st, 2015 @ 5:25 pm

    The translation, as long as it is a good translation made by someone, or a group, that truly wishes to communicate God’s word in the vernacular, will not require PC.

    KJV is awkward because of the archaic dialect and some sentence structure.