Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Gender neutral housing temporarily neutered at Yale

Yale University has delayed the implementation of "gender-neutral" student housing so the school can "study" the idea some more. Stupidity apparently becomes more appealing after it has been researched and analyzed:
A proposal to offer gender-neutral housing for Yale upperclassmen in fall 2009 has been tabled, the Yale Daily News reports. School officials say they need more time to form a task force and study the implementation of similar programs at peer schools.
It would probably be a mistake for anyone to think that the members of the school's administrative staff have suddenly turned into vertebrates. If they actually had backbones, they would tell the students that the reason they are students is because they are ignorant and the reason their parents are paying Yale exorbitant amounts of money is to relieve them of that ignorance. Instead, they are going to affirm their ignorance by giving it some kind of scientific credibility by "studying" the issue.

The impetus behind the change is coming from the gay and transgendered "community", who are none to pleased with the fact that the administration hasn't gotten word that college administrations always give in to student demands, no matter how utterly ridiculous they are:
The decision also prompted students to hold a "sleep-in," during which more than a dozen students camped in the middle of campus to, as one said, "protest the type of metaphorical displacement we, and by we I mean the [ gay and transgender] community and allies, are faced with by this decision."
"Metaphorical displacement"? First intolerance, then persecution, and now ... "Metaphorical displacement."

It's a cruel world.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

"If they actually had backbones, [administrators at Yale] would tell the students that the reason they are students is because they are ignorant and the reason their parents are paying Yale exorbitant amounts of money is to relieve them of that ignorance."

So students at one of the most selective colleges in the nation are too stupid to even arrange their own housing, but you think every 9th grader is fully qualified to evaluate the last 150 years worth of scientific research on evolution.

Logic: U R DOIN IT RONG!

Martin Cothran said...

Hormone-ridden 18 year olds? Not able to determine their own corporate sleeping arrangements? Why would anyone think they couldn't do that?

Maybe this is the answer to teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease the left has settled on.

Also, I'm trying to find the post where I advocated that 9th graders are fully qualified to evaluate 150 years worth of scientific research on evolution, and I give up. Maybe you could point me to it.

Anonymous said...

I could cite any of your numerous attacks on the legal judgment in Dover. The side you defend advocated giving 9th graders discredited creationist attacks on evolution so that they could make up their own minds about evolution.

The judge found that position improper. You disagree. I conclude that you support the Dover policy.

I wonder whether you think it would be OK for "hormone-ridden 18 year olds" to rent their own apartments and to choose their roommates freely. Perhaps there's some distinction between renting housing from a university and renting it from a different corporate landlord that you are failing to draw clearly.

Lee said...

> The side you defend advocated giving 9th graders discredited creationist attacks on evolution so that they could make up their own minds about evolution.

What other subjects should we teach in such a manner that school kids ought not be permitted to make up their own minds?

To ask the question is to answer it: only those subjects that have been settled.

All you're saying here is you think the evolution issue is settled.

Not everyone shares that opinion.

Which is why two opinions may be more helpful than one.

Now, by all means, proceed to overstate the case against Intelligent Design.

Martin Cothran said...

Anonymous,

How does disagreeing with the legal ruling in Dover logically commit you to agreeing with the Dover School District's policy? It's this kind of simplistic reasoning that makes so many people suspicious of the scientific establishment on this issue.

The Dover ruling went far beyond the legality of the policy, which was one of the reasons it wasn't a very good legal decision.

Give me one comment I made that logically commits me to the position that 9th graders should receive "discredited creationist attacks on evolution so that they could make up their own minds."

You said you could produce them, so why don't you produce them?

I criticized the decision for oversimplifying the demarcation question as to the definition of science and for contradicting itself in its argument that, whether or not it actually is, ID is not science.

I realize that oversimplification and misrepresentation are the stock-in-trade of the Creationist Plot mentality, but it doesn't lend any credibility to your position.