What I mean by the preceding paragraph is that some profs have a way of reaching out and pulling people in to the virtue of feminist theory, and others have a way of holding up the snarling logger-beast image of feminism that keeps people at bay, a bay the size of Hudson Bay. Ultimately however, the lecture, or lectures, or even semesters, come down to different variations of the same story. The following five step process chronicles what happens every time a class is introduced to feminist theory. As I said this is my third introduction which gives this research an accuracy rating of 95% three times out of twenty.
#1) Talk about how as a woman, you still like to do some of the things that the nuclear housewife would do. "One time I made my class brownies, and they were all so shocked, they couldn't believe I made them!"
#2) Slip in some kind of slander towards Stephen Harper and the Conservative party early in the lecture.
#3) A student will raise their hand and talk at length about how they have been reading about some country (usually a social welfare country in Europe) that is making great progress in the quest for woman-man equality. This observation will immediately be countered by other research that has shown that exactly the opposite is happening. In the case last week it was pointed out that affirmative action is putting more women in Scandinavian government than anywhere in the world. The comeback was that other research shows there are more women that report sexual abuse in these countries than anywhere in the world.*
In case there was problems understanding any of those five parts I have also prepared an equation to help
classroom male/female equality density =
(professor^/students) - {(conservatives X non-feminists)/progressive male student} + skewed facts
* There are two notes related to this. First, the person that raises their hand is almost always a guy that can’t wait to dazzle the class with his incredibly progressive views. This man is not sexually active, in any orientation. Second is that feminists will often grab on to some “fact” like this and ride it to death. Meanwhile it is easy to do a bit of research and discover some other literature that says the exact opposite.