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Published last year by Hipatia Press and authored by Breanne Fahs, Arizona State University and Michael Karger, Arizona State University

Women’s Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism and the Projection of Danger

Quote:Inherently opportunistic, viruses exploit the vulnerabilities and
weaknesses of the systems they attack (Nathanson, 2007). Similarly,
women’s studies programs are allowed to settle into corporate universities
and regenerate themselves through the education of students and by
manipulating portions of the academy under their control. Using
interdisciplinary women’s studies coursework as a springboard, women’s
studies students are then “set loose,” much in the same way that lytic
replication (wherein cells reproduce viral components until the cell walls
rupture) causes a burst of new viruses into the system that then infect other
cells (Nathanson, 2007). Note that this model also assumes that students do
not merely receive information as in the more traditional disciplines but
instead that they utilize information and knowledge systems to develop
particular skills, intentions, and insurrectionary priorities; further, students
do form coalitions with professors and other students to promote
progressive fields and to enact institutional and social change

This is an interesting piece and a good read. Their conclusions are hard to refute. In fact the evidence is visible daily. Unsurprisingly, though, this is considered by the authors, to be a good thing!

Quote:These infectious students, carrying the
blueprints of feminist pedagogies, step into other programs and reconstitute
themselves through the work they submit and through interaction with
instructors and student peers. This infects the formerly isolated and
protected, traditional disciplines (e.g., history, mathematics, physics,
psychology, and so on) with principles of critical feminist analysis.

Unwittingly, then, the corporate university begins to integrate, bit-by-bit,
portions of feminist pedagogies into its own ideology. As the perpetual
expansion of the corporate university builds upon itself, it carries these
alien blueprints into new domains.

Unreal.

A long read, but if you like to keep an eye on your enemy (as you should), this is a good intel.

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That's the worst haiku I've ever read.

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This is exactly why women's studies needs to be refunded and denied grant money at all levels of government & governmental agencies.

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Ol' Dickie Dawkins basically made the same analogy in The Selfish Gene, although he generalized it to all ideas rather than just feminist ideology.

The frightening thought is that some idea complexes can actually confer survival benefit to their hosts while still being highly negative. Islam is basically a meme virus that orders its host to attack or infect others, and to breed like rabbits knowing the offspring will themselves be infected. Feminism operates similarly although it would be most similar to a plague that flashes through a population killing millions before burning itself out, simply because it primarily targets females and convinces them NOT to breed.

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The twist is the one writer is feminist.