Another Breakthrough

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Mount Holyoke College in the US is actually quite a big deal; Women's College.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/03/mount-holyoke-trans...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Holyoke_College

One big leap for our side.

Joani

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Leigh Veritas's picture

I think this is amazing.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain.

Leigh Veritas

Discrimination is still exclusion

I'll applaud that the college is openly welcoming female presenting students through the front door, instead of the side or back door like red headed stepchildren. But college is by definition a place of learning. How can students learn if half the population is excluded from attending?

They don't seem to learn how

They don't seem to learn how to be assertive. I recently watched a video of a lecture given by Richard Dawkins at an all-female college somewhere in the US. When he invited questions, all but one or two came from male lecturers or male guest students.

I think the phrase they use in that neck of the woods is 'go figure'.

Ban nothing. Question everything.