Boise State prof says women don't belong in med, law and engineering

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The point is that a speaker at a national conservative conference spoke about this. If the majority of conservatives don't hold this same opinion, then they would not have invited him.

I attend lots of conferences where they have speakers with varying viewpoints, sometimes on the same panel. The conference doesn't endorse one speaker or another just because they invite them.

The conference invites speakers whom they think the majority of their attendees want to hear from. Do you think they invited a liberal to present a different view about this?

You are trying really hard to distance your party from him, but it's too late. This is absolutely the direction of the R party. The R party is turned hard right.

too late for what?

too late to try to turn the R party back to becoming moderate.

-Former R, female

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Anonymous wrote:I'm of the opinion that, barring disability, if you get a tertiary degree in a competitive field with limited admission - you should be required to work in that field for 5-7 years full-time. Otherwise you are taking the opportunity away from someone who WILL use the degree and for the better of society. (And no I don't care if you were scholarship or full pay)

Far too many 'Mrs' degrees and proud SAHM/Ds blogs who say 'Oh I have a law degree from Harvard teehee but all I do all day is knit and change diapers'.

I'm of the opinion that in order to keep the primary childbearers and childraisers in fields where they might drop out, you either have to convince their spouses step up to bat or you make those fields more family friendly. Far too many men who don't care about how educated and competent and advanced in their career their wives are, they still see them as the ones to stay home when a child is ill or the one who should be deciding on dinner every night or the one who makes sure everyone gets to the dentist twice a year. And far too many bosses who think because an employee goes home by 6 in order to make dinner that means she isn't working as hard as the employee who stays until 8, even though the employee who goes home early gets on her computer to do several hours more work after the kids go to bed.

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Don't make special effort to recruit me to dance ballet, no matter how few men dance ballet and you think how much lack of equity for men on the ballet stage.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't make special effort to recruit me to dance ballet, no matter how few men dance ballet and you think how much lack of equity for men on the ballet stage.

Umm, they do heavily recruit men who are actually good enough dancers

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Anonymous wrote:Don't make special effort to recruit me to dance ballet, no matter how few men dance ballet and you think how much lack of equity for men on the ballet stage.

Very unfair to men

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My female dermatologist is the best, just saying.

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You know who goes to Boise State? Mormons who can’t get into BYU.

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Lol. CNN should have cited Aristotle’s view on women. The professor would look like a raging liberal in comparison

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He said a few other things too.

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article256193492.html

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Anonymous wrote:He's entitled to his opinions.

His opinions are discriminatory and he's not entitled to keep his job.

If he has tenure, he is.

People are entitled to have discriminatory opinions. I discriminate against tomatoes, for example. There’s something about the texture that makes me gag.

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Anonymous wrote:He's entitled to his opinions.

His opinions are discriminatory and he's not entitled to keep his job.

Not true.

You're allowed to have discriminatory opinions. So long as you don't actually discriminate.

So if he said men should not be pursuing engineering degrees and you are a male student in his class....you just have to suck it up? If he said black students should not be pursuing engineering, his black students just have to suck it up?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm of the opinion that, barring disability, if you get a tertiary degree in a competitive field with limited admission - you should be required to work in that field for 5-7 years full-time. Otherwise you are taking the opportunity away from someone who WILL use the degree and for the better of society. (And no I don't care if you were scholarship or full pay)

Far too many 'Mrs' degrees and proud SAHM/Ds blogs who say 'Oh I have a law degree from Harvard teehee but all I do all day is knit and change diapers'.

What a sad view of education.

I don't think you should disparage women who stay home and "change diapers". When women outsource this a nanny they are condemned and when they decide to stay home and look after their child they are condemned. Women cannot win. We have to consider the health of society as a whole and if all women abandoned their roles as mothers I think society would see a change for the worse. Women's careers often move in "season" according to the stages of their children and society needs to be more open to this. Sometimes women can work and sometimes they may decide it is better for their family to stay home. It does not have to be black and white and no women should be maligned for either decision.

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Anonymous wrote:He's entitled to his opinions.

His opinions are discriminatory and he's not entitled to keep his job.

Yes he is. Professors and students alike have academic freedom and the freedom to express their opinions. Boise State is a public university, so they are required to respect an individuals' free speech rights.

He obviously has discriminatory beliefs against women. He should not be in a position to issue grades to them if he cannot be objective. I would have a problem with him if he were my DD's prof and I'd be loudly letting the university know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's entitled to his opinions.

His opinions are discriminatory and he's not entitled to keep his job.

Yes he is. Professors and students alike have academic freedom and the freedom to express their opinions. Boise State is a public university, so they are required to respect an individuals' free speech rights.

He obviously has discriminatory beliefs against women. He should not be in a position to issue grades to them if he cannot be objective. I would have a problem with him if he were my DD's prof and I'd be loudly letting the university know that.

And before you come back with more "free speech" blathering, he wouldn't be fired for his speech. He'd be fired for not being able to perform his job functions in a nonbiased manner. His statements clearly indicate he cannot. Speech is free. But not free from consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's entitled to his opinions.

His opinions are discriminatory and he's not entitled to keep his job.

If he has tenure, he is.

People are entitled to have discriminatory opinions. I discriminate against tomatoes, for example. There’s something about the texture that makes me gag.

Tomatoes are not a protected class. An individual's sex and gender are.