Wednesday, April 27, 2005

This article describes "Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" at the University of California, San Francisco:
(T)he 9- and 10-year-old daughters are being invited to participate in 17 hands-on activities such as working with microscopes, slicing brains, doing skull comparisons, seeing what goes on in the operating room, playing surgeon, dentist or nurse for a day, and visiting the intensive care unit nursery, where they can set up blood pressure cuffs and operate the monitors.

They can learn about earthquake and disaster preparedness, how to use a fire extinguisher, how to operate several types of equipment - even fire a laser.
Wow, that's quite an agenda. Sounds like those little girls will have a blast. But what about the boys? Surely they will get to fire a laser, too, right? Wrong.
(The boys will) Learn about "gender equity in fun, creative ways using media, role playing and group games" - after which, the boys can get a bit of time in with a microscope or learn how the heart works.
That's rich. While the girls are running around discharging fire extinguishers and slicing brains, the boys will be lectured on "gender equity" by some angry feminist. And who sponsors this event?

The Center for Gender Equity, of course, and they cheerfully admit their event isn't intended as a career day:
"It's about dealing with effects of sexism on both boys and girls and how it can damage them," she said.

Hence, while the boys undergo gender sensitivity training, the girls focus on their capabilities -- be it handling a scalpel or microscope.

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So now the boys have their own gender sensitivity program, where "they learn about violence prevention and how to be allies to the girls and women in their lives," Levine said.
Now it occurred to me that it might be unfair of me to call Amy Levine an "angry feminist." So here's her picture. You can decide for yourself what gender sensitivity training might be like with this woman:



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