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Tuesday, March 3. 2015

Beyond parody: The "identity" segregation circus at Wesleyan

Boola Boola. College sure has changed:



These include Womanist House, Women of Color House, Malcolm X House, La Casa (Latinos), Turath House (Arabs, Muslims), Buddhist House, Asian/Asian American House, Light House (Christians), Bayit (Jews), Japanese Hall, Chinese House, and Open House, which is for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderfuck, Polyamourous, Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism (LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM) communities and for people of sexually or gender dissident communities.” Missing from this protected list: hetero males who wish to live with other hetero males in a fraternity.


Posted by The Barrister at 14:29 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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I've heard Wesleyan is a "good" school and I've worked at a lot of places with a lot of professional people. But I've never once met a Wesleyan grad. Where do they all go? Back into academics? Are they prepared for anything else?
#1 NJSoldier on 2015-03-03 15:31 (Reply)
My high school usually sent 1-2 of its grads to Wesleyan every year. Some of the occupations they ended up in: executive often w an artsy touch, "activist," journalist. I know of only one professor- and a business school prof at that. Then there was the Merit Finalist who drank himself out of Wesleyan his freshman year. Don't know of any Wesleyan STEM grads- though the guy who drank himself out of Wesleyan did STEM at StateU.

I suspect that the current crop of Wesleyan students will not end up doing as well as previous generations, having drunk too deeply the lefty kool-aid. Though Wesleyan was always lefty.

Bill Belichick is a Wesleyan grad, where he played football.
#1.1 Gringo on 2015-03-03 18:03 (Reply)
In that long list "privileging" sexual orientation over all other aspects of personality, I am betting that the Asexual students are going nowhere near the place. The last thing they are going to want is to discuss endlessly the subtle nuances of the 1% of outliers.
#2 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2015-03-03 15:41 (Reply)
Most normal guys are happily-semi-repressed hetero -polyamorous scoundrels.

We are oppressed by capitalist society.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2015-03-03 16:17 (Reply)
I must rise to protest the micro-aggression of having the letters FAG appear in order in the acronym of what is supposed to be a welcoming and open house. Clearly this is the work of the heteronormative patriarchy and must be denounced by all right thinking (OOPS...I denounce myself for badthink) make that proper thinking persons. Immediately.
#3 Watchman on 2015-03-03 19:59 (Reply)
The perennial cellar of the Little Three.
#4 Jim on 2015-03-03 20:27 (Reply)

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