Except that you can check out any time you like. All you need to do is realize that you're trapped in a small, deeply religious box filled with things that you know that 'just ain't so'. Professor Christina Hoff Summers talking about our institutions of "higher" learning.
The Millennials have been cheated out of a serious education by their Baby Boomer teachers. Call it a generational swindle. Even the best and brightest among the 20-somethings have been shortchanged. Instead of great books, they wasted a lot of time with third-rate political tracts and courses with titles like “Women Writers of the Oklahoma Panhandle.” Instead of spending their college years debating and challenging received ideas, they had to cope with speech codes and identity politics. College educated young women in the U.S. are arguably the most fortunate people in history; yet many of them have drunk deeply from the gender feminist Kool-Aid. Girls at Yale, Haverford and Swarthmore see themselves as oppressed. That is madness. And madness can only last so long. So, I plan to continue writing books and articles, making my Factual Feminist videos and lecturing at as many campuses and laws schools as I can. American colleges have been described as islands of repression in a sea of freedom. I want to encourage rebellion among the islanders.
However I do take exception with the characterization of Oklahoma Panhandle writing. Any woman writing from Guymon, the cow fart capital of the world would have some very pungent if not interesting things to say.
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