Feminist Ph.D. Blames @KatiePavlich for Patriarchy, Misogyny, ‘Rape Culture’?

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Meet @AngieLCarter, who plans to complete her Ph.D. in sociology this year at Iowa State University, and who apparently helped lead protesters Tuesday against author Katie Pavlich:

Twitchy reports on what went down in Ames, Iowa:

Townhall editor and Twitchy favorite Katie Pavlich spoke Tuesday night at Iowa State University on the topic of “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Conservative Perspective.” We’ve heard plenty of liberals give their take on campus sexual assault: some universities officially advise female students to blow a whistle, vomit, fake a disease or just use the buddy system and campus “safe zones” to avoid being raped.
By all means, though, women on campus should not arm themselves, for fear that they might mistakenly “feel” they’re in trouble when they’re actually not and “pop a round at somebody.”
Pavlich says that anti-gun protesters attended her speech, which is no surprise.

Go read the whole thing at Twitchy. Can you guess how reporter Gavin Aronsen spun the story in the local AmesTribune?

Controversial author: Fight
rape with guns on campuses
More than 200 people attended a lecture Tuesday evening at Iowa State University’s Memorial Union, many in protest, by a conservative author and Fox News political commentator known for her controversial views on sexual assault on college campuses. . . .
The speaker, Katie Pavlich, in a lecture titled “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Conservative Perspective,” castigated university administrators and liberals alike for what she said was their aversion to empowering women to defend themselves against rapists. . . .
“Because of these policies women are being turned into victims in order to uphold anti-gun political philosophies held by administrators. What can be a woman’s best defense against a sexual assault? A gun.” . . .
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, Iowa is one of 23 states where individual campuses can choose whether to allow guns on campus. ISU does not allow it.

Is it “controversial” to say that a woman with a gun is less likely to be raped? Is there nothing “controversial” about Iowa State University’s policy? May we inquire what Pavlich’s critics are teaching at ISU?

Angie Carter is a Sociology PhD candidate co-majoring in ISU’s Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture (GPSA). Her sociological areas of interest include symbolic interaction, narrative construction, inequality, gender, social change, agrifood systems, and the environment. Her research has studied community natural resource programs, farmland ownership and conservation adoption, and social justice in agrifood systems. While at ISU, Carter has participated in both the Preparing Future Faculty program and the Emerging Leaders Academy.
Carter’s dissertation is a multi-method analysis of the social processes related to farmland owner legitimacy in conservation decision-making and their relationship to gendered agricultural narratives. . . .
Additional research interests include the construction of masculinity in agriculture, the integration of justice within the sustainable agricultural paradigm, feminist pedagogical approaches, the symbolic uses of “human nature” and its connection to social inequality, the control and revision of cultural narratives, gendered organizations and institutional change, the privatization of the public university and the changing place of public science, and environmental justice social movements.
Upon graduation in May 2015, Carter plans to continue to integrate theory and practice through her research and teaching as a professor.

Yeah. There is this place called “the real world” — far, far away from this academic indoctrination center where Angie Carter is among the “Emerging Leaders” — and in the real world, farmers grow corn and raise hogs. Real farmers don’t have time to worry about “the construction of masculinity,” “gendered agricultural narratives” and “environmental justice social movements.”

The question is not why “controversial” Katie Pavlich was confronted by protesters at ISU. The question is: “Do Iowa taxpayers know what kind of lunatic gibberish is being taught at ISU?”

Fact: Women receive about 70% of bachelor’s degrees in sociology, and also receive nearly two-thirds of Ph.D.s in the field. Because sociology has become so dominated by women, and because women in academia are generally adherents of radical feminism, this field is now an ideological swamp of jargon and “theory” that teaches nothing useful about human society. Isn’t it time legislators in Iowa and other states begin exercising their authority as stewards of taxpayers’ money and investigate what citizens are getting for the millions of dollars that are pumped into Academic Nonsense Factories called “state universities”?

 

84 comments

  1. Some years ago, Zombie did a longish article on “food justice”, which is where I first encountered some of these ideas. I thought this complex of theories sounded like a short path to a holodomor.

    My opinion is reinforced every time I am forced to look at them again.

  4. Pol Pot would be proud of this one! I wonder if she even knows about him… Perhaps agrarian reform in “Democratic Kampuchea” is the subject of her doctoral dissertation…

  5. One would suppose you, in particular, are udderly offended at the notion of “gendered agricultural narratives”!

    I denounce myself…

  7. ”gendered agricultural narratives. . . .”
    So is that were the expression ”useless as tits on a bull” originated?

  9. Pol Pot would know exactly where people like her belonged in the grand scheme. Their skulls would be at the bottom of the piles of sculls in the fields and paddies.
    When the burning times come these people’s terminal uselessness will be, well terminal. The meek will probably not inherit the earth but even they will survive the catastrophically useless will not.

  10. Yet another unattractive gender ambiguous “he-she” looking twat. Just like most of the women in the Obama Regime and MSNBC (Maddow, Hayes, etc).

  11. Angie, nobody cares about your damn deconstruction and agri-gender, or any of that other foolishness. Take that bucket of feed out to the chicken pen. While you’re there, clean out the coop and collect the eggs. Then go clean out the horse stalls and feed the goats. When you’re done with that, take the tractor and go plow that field over yonder. Afterwards, go in and help your mama with dinner. Then y’all got some mending to do tonight.

    Go on now! Don’t just stand there with your mouth hanging open, time’s a wastin’!

    Can’t believe I gotta explain this to somebody from Iowa.

  12. I thought this complex of theories sounded like a short path to a holodomor.

    It is.

    Progressive energy policies are about limiting your access to electricity and fuel.

    Progressive family policies are aimed at underming your family.

    Progressive healthcare is about rationing your healthcare.

    Progressive education is designed to make your kids stupid.

    Progressive taxation is there to rob you.

    Progressive food policies are aimed at starving you.

    Who will rid us of these turbulent progressives?

  13. “@KatiePavlich claims guns are a woman’s best defense against rape.”

    And also against assault and battery, murder, rabid dogs, rampaging black bears and great white shark bites. And if you hand me my 9mm over there, I’ll show you how an actual farmer’s daughter deconstructs a rapist’s masculinity.

  14. Too late. We should’ve rid ourselves of them 100 years ago when you could still lynch traitors.

    Should’ve paid attention when Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened.”

  16. The 2nd amendment will take care of them, when they come to invade your property and try to impose their ideals on you.

  19. If there were never another reason to eliminate agricultural subsidies totally and forever, it would be worthwhile to ensure that ditzy cluck never got a penny of taxpayer money.

    Iowa must be nuts. Free range, fair trade, patriarchy-free, organic nuts.

  21. Angie Carter needs to deconstruct her own masculinity, she looks like a he/she. Sociology today is just about figuring out what will work to brainwash the masses to give up their rights on the road to communism.

    Recently there was a young contestant on Jeopardy. As Alex Trebek does, he asked her about herself. She said she majored in poetry. Alex asked if she can make a living, have a career in poetry. She said she could fantasize about having a career in poetry. And we need more people going to college for this crap?

    College will be the next bubble to crash, and the sooner the better.

  24. I am given to understand that at least the H&K .45 will fire underwater. Though I fear that it might only work with the first magazine. I haven’t heard the experiment was repeated beyond that.

  25. If she actually knows the parts of speech and how to use them, she is employable.

    She can write poetry and not be a starving artist. Win-win.

  26. I swear that looks like art for a fanfic crossover melding Peanuts with “A Boy and his Dog”.

  27. It’s been a while since I’ve been to the Hawkeye State, but it always struck me as roughly divided between sensible small-town/rural folk and batshit crazy over-educated idiots in the two college towns.

  30. Our esteemed host wrote:

    Fact: Women receive about 70% of bachelor’s degrees in sociology, and also receive nearly two-thirds of Ph.D.s in the field.

    And their actual employment rate in sociology is . . . ?

  33. If my wife of 41 years gave such crazy talk at the farm, like the the Carter PhD ,the animals would stampede and trample my corn rows!
    She knows how to shoot vermin, her Dad taught her at the farm…BTW, she says that all that the Feminist need is some blind and drunk guy to bed them…WDYT?

  34. Well, interestingly enough, on the road to Penn State, you pass through State Pen on the way. 🙂

    Seriously!State Correctional Institution – Rockview is a medium security facility and prison farm, located on both sides of I-99 between Bellefonte and State College, and there are road signs letting you know that You Are Now Entering Rockview State Correctional Institution. There are security fences, of course, but another eight miles down the road and you are looking at cute coeds.

  39. The problem is that the people making this argument aren’t thinking of the same thing gun advocates are when they say “rape”.

    A gun is very useful when being attacked by a stranger in a dark alley, if you know how to draw it quickly and aren’t afraid to use it; this is what most gun advocates think of as “rape”. It’s a lot less useful if, in the process of sobering up enough to decide you really shouldn’t have started taking your clothes off with this guy you barely know from class, you realize you don’t know where your purse is in the dark and aren’t strong enough to push the guy off you to go looking for it, even assuming you remembered to bring your gun to what your friends assured you was “just a harmless little party” in the first place.

    It’s this second kind of rape that feminism considers really outrageous, because it’s so much more common and so much easier to dismiss as “the victim’s fault”. Which is exactly why old-style standards of courtesy and behaviour disapproved strongly of young women getting drunk around young men without benefit of chaperone. But you can’t have hookup culture with chaperones, so guess what got ditched?

  44. “Regrets don’t mean you were raped.”

    No, but the fact that you started making out with someone doesn’t mean you don’t get to say, “this far and no farther,” either. But by that point most people have left their firearms elsewhere.

    The real problem is that responsible firearm ownership and use is incompatible with the carelessness needed to enable the casual promiscuity that modern libertinism so treasures. Being asked to pick up a gun isn’t the problem; being asked to become a more careful, cautious and responsible person is.

  45. Girlfriends mom has a Ph.D in sociology, and if you’re not a tenured professor, which she, and most grads aren’t, you’re doing something else. She became a real estate agent.

  46. I’m waiting for gender studies applied to bookkeeping or better yet quantum mechanics, I’m sure some of those particles are gay!

  50. I don’t believe watermelons are gendered. That’s what makes Angie Carter’s take on agriculture so dangerous. If Dingbats like her ever achieve actual significance in agri policy and or production, billions will starve to death. This obviously brings up the question, what do we do with these people and do we wait until it’s too late?

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