benny tea - also OT.

So, are you an "uppity" student or a "stupid commoner"?

Sounds like your own personal beliefs are being challenged, and you are taking offense.

It would be nice for university students to think beyond their upbringing - but most don't, as you have amply demonstrated.

Those that do (tende ad astra), well ... they most often go on to contribute in a constructive and meaningful way, for the benefit of the whole society. The university, of course, has got nothing to do with it, has it?

benny tea, the French Revolution was prefaced by 'honest debate and intellectual freedom (being) strangled to death' by the right-wing aristocracy.

It seems you have a lot to learn about freedom ... of thought, action and the written word.

Q&A,
While universities are fond of calling themselves an "export industry", they are also fond of calling for more taxpayer money. Funny that.

If they are an export industry, they can stand on their own two feet without the taxpayer.

We have more that enough arts students and social science students (many of whome will later live off the taxpayer), but not enough people who are actually producing something that can be sold and exported to help pay for all the imports.

I don't believe any member of the public should be funding an orgabisation that routienly denigrates 50% of Australia's population (ie. an academic feminist) and then spends as much as it can posiibly spend of taxpayer funding on imports. But that is an Australian university.

Start shutting Australian universities down. Find something better.

There has been lots of comment on this post firmly based on total ignorance of university finances. Most universities will spend about 75-80% of their annual funds on wages and salaries. Clearly this money will be largely spent in Australia. Of the remaining funds much will be spent on imported materials such as advanced technological items, books and journals, consumables etc. Most of these are not available from local industry and must be imported. Universities do 'export' education through enrolling overseas students . The fees from these students are welcome sources of funds but go nowhere near matching the money from publicly funded local students, the major source of university revenue. Shutting down the universities might be an answer to some of the difficulties some people have with them. However, it will also serious damage many regional areas where universities are the major employer.

The proposition that university faculties in the humanities are full of male denigrating feminists is among the more ludicrous allegations made on this post. That committed feminist women occupy teaching posts in universities is well known. They have no need to hide their beliefs. That they allow this to bias their teaching is, in my experience, false. As background I am male and have held senior academic posts in the sciences. I have recently completed a BA in history as a retirement project. I know bias when I see it and hear it. None of the able female lecturing and tutoring staff I met displayed any anti-male propagandist tendencies whatsoever. That these sorts of allegations are made is simply the triumph of prejudice over fact. It's much easier to remain ignorant than to seek knowledge.

AyJay
You're suggesting that arts and humanities courses are not heavily corrupted by male denigrating feminists? Consider the following:

“also gives succour to all the men bashing their wives in teleland: they can all imagine themselves to be rugged, adventurous “risk takers”, just like Inglis. It’s a win-win strategy for all men, rich or poor”

“Men all over Australia would be given reason to think that their violence against women might actually have lasting consequences.”

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9320

The above are typically generalised and discriminatory statements made about the male gender by a pHD candidate from the University of Melbourne.

The pHD candidate has not said one positive word said about males in their article on males, but of course their statements would not apply to any male inside the arts and humanities department of the University of Melbourne. Their statements would only apply to ALL MALES outside of the arts and humanities department of the University of Melbourne. This now includes yourself.

Did you know that you are a woman basher?

The pHD candidate is just regurgitating feminist doctrine, but the question is: “How can a pHD candidate get so far in their university education while having such bigoted, myopic and negative opinions of the male gender”.

Answer is: “Because the university system is so heavily corrupted by bigoted, myopic feminists with negative opinions only of the male gender”.

While lying that they are an “export industry”, universities continually ask for more taxpayer money, and ignore the fact they have created a $14 billion HECS debt that has to be paid off by the public at some time in the future.

Instead of helping to develop Australian industry, many university staff spend every cent they can spend of taxpayer funding on imports, which is the laziest way of purchasing something.

While portraying themselves as being wonderful individuals helping to eliminate bigotry and prejudice, many university staff routinely carry out bigotry and prejudice towards 50% of Australia’s population.

Start shutting the archaic, elitist, expensive, feminist corrupted, debt ridden, lying and rather useless Australian university system down. Establish something better.

Well I am very disappointed. I have been purposely placing spelling errors in my last few posts to see if any arts and humanities devotees would find them and make comment.

None have.

Their has been a gradual removel of maths and science out of universities, (because such subjects are just “too male”), and in the future there may be the gradual removal of English as well.

Students will have to “feel” their way through their socialist and feminist orchestrated subject material, being ever so mindful of who they denigrate, and then ask for more money.