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Textploitation - political correctness for students : Comments

By Ben-Peter Terpstra, published 5/10/2007

History wars: our students are encouraged to marinate in the West’s sin.

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In the 70’s, as an undergrad believing in equal rights for women (indeed for all), I joined a feminist group. However, I found some of their ideas increasingly ludicrous, and left. A number of feminists emulated the very things they damned about men. Being married with children, and refusing to wear bib’n’brace overalls with men’s singlets, and go bra-less, I was on the outer. However, I did have a good friend, intelligent and reasonable; she had a tattoo on her shoulder of a sickle with testicles dangling from it.

Later, when Keating did a sweet-heart deal with a Catholic Independent member from Tasmania, the condition being that no birth-control teaching nor birth-control methods be sent to third-world countries, not one feminist group spoke out. Keating was their darling. This was a terrible betrayal of what feminism was supposed to represent.

The result was that maternal mortality, obstetric fistula, and still-births rocketed in these countries; especially among child wives.

From the Fistula Foundation.
“Less than 6 in 10 women in developing countries give birth with any trained professional, such as a midwife or a doctor.  In Ethiopia, only 1 in 10 women have a trained attendant.  When complications arise, as they do in approximately 15% of all births, there is no one available to treat the woman, leading to disabling injuries like fistula, and even death.”
http://www.fistulafoundation.org/aboutfistula/faqs.html

An obstetric fistula is a rupture in the birth canal, the result of prolonged labour, leaving girls/women with chronic bowel and bladder incontinence; they are isolated from their villages; even hospitals will turn them away. Invariably the baby is stillborn.
Posted by Danielle, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 7:27:56 PM
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cont ...

A gay friend described the latest feminist workshop. They painted pictures with their menstrual blood - each had brought her own collected in a container. One supposes, a post-menopausal woman could paint from a younger woman’s jar ... surely they don’t practice ageism.

When I was younger, political correctness, would have fallen under courtesy and consideration for another’s feelings; indeed, accepting the other as equal, whatever race, religion, etc ...

Political correctness can be “innocently” offensive. I was outraged at being corrected by a colleague, that I was “vertically challenged”, not “small” as I had stated.

Many deaf do not consider themselves “challenged”; they regard “learning to lip-read/ speak” as learning a different language. To say they are “challenged” is to get a rapid response of many hand-signs - the meaning only all too clear. Indeed, a culture exists among a few, that it is a “sell out” to learn to lip-read/speak.

Political correctness appears to be a sacred sanctum, the adherents of which ignore reality, time and place. I regret to say, “expediency” comes readily to mind, and as for historical facts ..
Posted by Danielle, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 7:29:52 PM
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What's with the "Whitesville sucks" caper, baby?
Ow! That's a bring down, man! A real drag!
What's your story?

Whitesville's the utmost.

Whitesville gave us the Enlightenment. What a gas!

Whitesville gave us Democracy. The living end!

Whitesville gave us the Industrial Revolution. Outta sight!

That's the kind of scene that I dig, baby.

Isaac Newton. In the Groove!

Charles Darwin. Lay your racket on me, Charlie!

Florence Nightingale. She's a blip!

Henry Ford. Get in there!

Joan of Arc. She's too much!

Sigmund Freud. Nutty!

Louis Pasteur. That's a hard spiel!

Mary Shelley. She's a gasser, so help me!

Thomas Jefferson. He's got his boots on!

What a bunch of real gone cats!
Crazy, man. CRAZY!

Whitesville's where it's at.
It's what's happenin'!

It's the ginchiest!

Can ya dig it, Daddy-O?
Posted by Shockadelic, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 10:37:15 AM
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