Exclusive: College educations are becoming less and less objectively valuable all the time. I’m very pro-education, but let’s face it, “higher education” nowadays teaches little but woke propaganda. College graduates are usually less competent and less capable of critical thinking post-diploma than before they left for college. Supposedly “Catholic” Georgetown University’s “women’s and gender studies” (WGST) courses are a perfect illustration of exactly why spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an Ivy League education now is all too often a lousy investment.
For instance, below is the course description for WGST 141 - Intro to Sexuality Studies (emphasis added):
“This course provides an introduction to the vibrant and interdisciplinary field of sexuality studies. Sexuality studies examines the social construction of sexual desires, practices, and identities, and investigates the ways in which sexuality is connected to power and inequality. We will begin the course by exploring some key theories and concepts within the field, and situate them alongside the history of LGBTQ activism in the United States and elsewhere. We will then consider how these concepts can be applied to a variety of contemporary issues such as sexual identity and the state, same-sex marriage, representations of sexuality in popular culture and the media, transnational sexualities and sexual identities and consumerism. Throughout the course, we will examine how sexuality intersects with other social categories such as gender, race, class, nationality, age and ability/disability.”
The Catholic Church teaches that transgenderism and homosexual acts are inherently unnatural and therefore sinful. I wonder if Georgetown plans to teach from that perspective in the course?
And in case “gender studies” on its own isn’t woke enough for you, then you can take a class on how to mix unscientific climate alarmism with feminism in Population Gender &Environment WGST 247 (emphasis added):
“This course is designed to enhance the students’ understanding of the interrelation of population and the environment/agriculture in different world regions. . .The course will review current trends of population growth, main issues to attain sustainable development and its implications for environmental, agricultural and social. We will focus on production patterns with a gender lens to understand the role of men and women in rural societies and that of Indigenous Peoples, who play a central role in preserving biodiversity to achieve food security.
A module focused on Population, Health and Environment (PHE) will be presented and discussed with the participation of current project managers and practitioners (USAID, Conservation International, IUCN) who strive to further this field of study in developing countries (Comparative sites in Africa and Asia). We will review the impact of farming and natural resource management (NRM) in selected sub-regions. . .We will underlie the main causes of deforestation, soil erosion and biodiversity loss while reflecting on the implications of climate change and sound alternatives (mitigation and adaptation) to ameliorate its impact. An overview of gender analysis and resource management will be presented in order to understand conservation strategies, both individually and collectively and how males and females contribute differently to conservation and agricultural production efforts.”
What about what transsexual non-binary furries contribute to climate efforts? I wonder if the course will mention that climate alarmists have been consistently, repeatedly, and wildly wrong in their “climate change” predictions for decades.
There’s also the basics, of course, like WGST 200 - Feminist Thought 1 (emphasis added):
“This course will examine a variety of feminist theories--from eighteenth and nineteenth century writers such as Wollstonecraft and Mill through the radical feminist discourse of Ti-Grace Atkinson and Shulamith Firestone to contemporary writers and activists. The class will focus on central and recurring debates within feminist theory and practice: debates between essentialism and social constructionism; between liberal reformism and radical transformation; between the politics of sameness and the politics of difference. We will also examine how feminist theories have attempted to reckon with the challenges of poststructuralism and the critiques offered by women of color. The intersections of race/ethnicity and class with the category of gender will also offer a central analytic strand throughout the course.”
Thank goodness university students have ditched useless subjects like geometry and Shakespeare to study the politics of sameness and the intersectionality of race and gender!
Now they can absorb wisdom such as these quotes from Ti-Grace Atkinson: “Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice,” and “The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist,” and “Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.” Then there’s these genius comments from Shulamith Firestone: “Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature,” and “All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate – and I wish I could find one.” No wonder Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson are passé!
Georgetown’s “gender studies” students can also take cross-listed courses such as Hot Topics in Human Sexuality – PSYC 337, Witches – GERM 043, Sex & Power in the Arab Tradition – ARAB 412, and best of all Black Queer Diaspora Studies – AFAM 419.
Universities have become merely brainwashing mockeries of education.
Surprising that 'sudden death by climate change™️' has yet to become a subject of academic instruction. It does after-all seem a predictable by-product of, 'inconvenient intersections in policies of social propaganda'. They seem so slow to catch on.
It is a historical fact that no Church-run Inquisition had the authority to (or ever did) kill people. If anyone was executed, it was done by a civil authority. The only Inquisition that executed people was the Spanish one, which was run by secular authorities instead of clergy and was even condemned or critiqued by the pope and various clerics for its practices. The Catholic Church cannot only prove historically that it is the original Church, but it is impossible to interpret the Bible literally and be anything but Catholic. In fact, we would not know which books WERE in the Bible if the Church had not pronounced which were canon. It is undeniable that Catholics have made mistakes. So what are we to say of the dozens or even hundreds of persecutions carried out around the world by non-Catholic Christians against Catholics? Elizabeth I of England killed an estimated 1 million English and Irish Catholics combined during her religious persecutions