Post subject: Women only want to be treated equal when it suits them...
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 12:59 pm
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LYNCHBURG, Virginia (AP) LYNCHBURG, Virginia (AP) -- Amid boos and shouts of "traitors" Randolph-Macon Woman's College officials announced Saturday that men would be admitted to the 115-year-old institution starting in 2007.
In the eyes of the board of trustees, going coed could help stabilize the school's finances as interest in all-women schools wanes.
But when officials floated the idea last month, it drew a sharp response. Online petitions and campus protests decried the move, angry e-mail flooded in, one alumnae group even hired a lawyer to try to discourage the board by citing legal concerns.
Saturday morning, an agitated crowd of some 400 students, alumnae and their supporters greeted the board's announcement by drowning out trustees president Jolley Christman as she tried to explain.
"Today we begin to heal. We begin to write the next chapter in our history," Christman said, barely audible over the shouting.
Christman said the 25-2 vote followed more than two years of study. The board determined coeducation was the best way to preserve the school's mission of high academic standards for undergraduate students and said a co-educational version of Randolph-Macon would emphasize global honors programs.
Interim President Ginger Worden told the students and supporters, "Do not, I implore you, turn your back on this college," but many in the crowd swiftly turned their backs on her in response.
"I'm sad. I'm really sad," said Gabriella Medina, a freshman from Puerto Rico. "If we can't reverse this, I guess I'm going to transfer."
Before Saturday's vote, supporters of single-gender education gathered on campus, many wearing yellow T-shirts distributed by the students' Coalition to Preserve Women's Education. A red-brick campus wall was lined with bedsheets turned into banners, one reading: "115 Years of Women Can't Be Wrong."
College officials expected resistance but said the move was necessary. Enrollment this fall was about 700, down from a student body of almost 900 in the 1960s.
Worden said the school has had to dip into its $140 million (€110.12 million) endowment for operations because of the large financial incentives required to attract good students.
Across the United States, only about 60 women's colleges remain, from nearly 300 in the 1960s, according to the Women's College Coalition.
To go coed, the school must now adopt a new name -- there already is a Randolph-Macon College, a former men's school in Ashland. Christman hoped a task force would have a name to suggest this fall.
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how pathetic...how come NOW and other groups that have demanded women be entered into mens institutions isnt sticking up for men in this case or what not
Post subject: Re: Women only want to be treated equal when it suits them..
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2006 4:20 pm
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Peeps wrote:
In the eyes of the board of trustees, going coed could help stabilize the school's finances as interest in all-women schools wanes.
It is a private institution. If they decided to go coed based upon a financial need, then that is their decision. They are, or at least should be, allowed to operate their university as they see fit. The market appears to be in decline for single-sex women's colleges, so they adapted because they depend on the market for their existance. Better to have a college there and be coed, then to close outright.
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This isn't about being treated equally. There is still a small market for all-women's colleges. So be it. If there were a market for all-men's colleges there'd be more of them left too.
The equality argument comes in when the exclusive school offers somethingthat is special and cannot be obtained at otehr institutions. Like a military-style education, or back in the 60's, the BEST education in the country.
If a man wants to go to a middling liberal-arts college in Virginia, there are plenty to choose from besides this place.
But nice try to create controversy where there isn't any, Peeps.
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But nice try to create controversy where there isn't any, Peeps.
bullshit
there are brownies for the cub scouts, theres softball for baseball. if there was an all male college and women were going to be let in, and men protested against it, they would be called every fucking name in the book
way to try to use your lawyerese where its absolutely fucking useless
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Peeps wrote:
if there was an all male college and women were going to be let in, and men protested against it, they would be called every fucking name in the book
Most likely "fags", like people here are calling teh women "dykes".
This is a private decision, by the college, not under pressure from any men's groups, and some alumni don't like it. Big fucking deal.
You're always looking for hypocrisy, and you usually fail miserably at pointing it out because your peepslogic of "nexus equals correlation" is intellectually deficient.
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if there was an all male college and women were going to be let in, and men protested against it, they would be called every fucking name in the book
Most likely "fags", like people here are calling the women "dykes".
This is a private decision, by the college, not under pressure from any men's groups, and some alumni don't like it. Big fucking deal.
You're always looking for hypocrisy, and you usually fail miserably at pointing it out because your peepslogic of "nexus equals correlation" is intellectually deficient.
if its anyone who is deficient, it would be you. you have stopped being friends with people simply cause of their political beliefs, you have made a backhanded shady deal with a user that was banned and then turtled up when you were called out on it, and the other mods threatend users if they brought it up, so seriously, dont through the word deficient around, you have a big heaping helping of it yourself
the point is, and im sorry if youre brain isnt able to comprehend it, is if and when women try to get into a club or organization that is soley men (such as augusta), the men are called pigs and neanderthals for not wanting women in it.
but when women dont want men to join their club, its called keeping their integrity
if there was an all male college and women were going to be let in, and men protested against it, they would be called every fucking name in the book
Most likely "fags", like people here are calling the women "dykes".
This is a private decision, by the college, not under pressure from any men's groups, and some alumni don't like it. Big fucking deal.
You're always looking for hypocrisy, and you usually fail miserably at pointing it out because your peepslogic of "nexus equals correlation" is intellectually deficient.
if its anyone who is deficient, it would be you. you have stopped being friends with people simply cause of their political beliefs, you have made a backhanded shady deal with a user that was banned and then turtled up when you were called out on it, and the other mods threatend users if they brought it up, so seriously, dont through the word deficient around, you have a big heaping helping of it yourself
the point is, and im sorry if youre brain isnt able to comprehend it, is if and when women try to get into a club or organization that is soley men (such as augusta), the men are called pigs and neanderthals for not wanting women in it.
but when women dont want men to join their club, its called keeping their integrity
You're my archnemesis and all, but be careful. I'd miss you if you were gone...there'd be no reason for that batcave I built beneath my house.
I think the point here, and maybe I'm wrong but what do I care, is that when a men's organization, even a relatively small one, tries to avoid becoming co-ed it's frontpage material for newspapers and Newsweek. When a women's college does it, there's a small amount of nonjudgemental press and the end. But, really, this is a college...how long has it been since college attendees were actually people of any intellectual weight? Twenty years? Thirty? Forty?!?
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Peeps wrote:
punkdavid wrote:
Peeps wrote:
if there was an all male college and women were going to be let in, and men protested against it, they would be called every fucking name in the book
Most likely "fags", like people here are calling the women "dykes".
This is a private decision, by the college, not under pressure from any men's groups, and some alumni don't like it. Big fucking deal.
You're always looking for hypocrisy, and you usually fail miserably at pointing it out because your peepslogic of "nexus equals correlation" is intellectually deficient.
if its anyone who is deficient, it would be you. you have stopped being friends with people simply cause of their political beliefs, you have made a backhanded shady deal with a user that was banned and then turtled up when you were called out on it, and the other mods threatend users if they brought it up, so seriously, dont through the word deficient around, you have a big heaping helping of it yourself
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the point is, and im sorry if youre brain isnt able to comprehend it, is if and when women try to get into a club or organization that is soley men (such as augusta), the men are called pigs and neanderthals for not wanting women in it.
Those women should just join the all-women's Augusta National Golf club across town.
Comprehend that.
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but when women dont want men to join their club, its called keeping their integrity
I call it a private matter, just like Augusta.
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I can understand the alumni etc being upset because they chose that school because of what it stood for, and now that's fundamentally changing forever.
Other than that, I don't really see what the problem is.
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Is it a fully private organisation? That's pretty much all it comes down to, right? If I fund the formation of a 'people who like to wear their underpants on the outside' club, and not subject myself for public funding and have it on a strict membership basis, then why shouldn't I be able to discriminate against others?
first of all, humanity has been an all-boys club for so fucking long, and women have had equal stand with men for just a drop in the bucket of time.
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1776 Abigail Adams writes to her husband, John Adams, asking him to "remember the ladies" in the new code of laws. Adams replies the men will fight the "despotism of the petticoat."
1777 Women lose the right to vote in New York.
1780 Women lose the right to vote in Massachusetts.
1784 Women lose the right to vote in New Hampshire.
1787 US Constitutional Convention places voting qualifications in the hands of the states. Women in all states except New Jersey lose the right to vote.
1792 Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Vindication of the Rights of Women in England.
1807 Women lose the right to vote in New Jersey, the last state to revoke the right. Women Join the Abolitionist Movement
1830s Formation of the female anti-slavery associations.
1836 Angelina Grimke appeals to Southern women to speak out against slavery.
1837 The "Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts to the Congregational Churches Under Their Care" is promulgated against women speaking in public against slavery, it is mainly directed against the Grimke sisters.
1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other women barred from participating on account of their sex.
Women Begin to Organize For Their Own Rights 1848 First Women's Rights convention in Seneca Fall, New York. Equal suffrage proposed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton After debate of so radical a notion, it is adopted.
1850 Women's rights convention held in April in Salem, Ohio. First national women's rights convention held in October in Worcester, Massachusetts.
1850-1861 Annual Women's Rights conventions held. The last, in 1861, in Albany, New York lobbies for a liberalized divorce bill. Horace Greely opposes the bill, which loses.
1861-1865 Civil War. Over the objections of Susan B. Anthony, women put aside suffrage activities to help the war effort.
1867 Fourteenth amendment passes Congress, defining citizens as "male;" this is the first use of the word male in the Constitution. Kansas campaign for black and woman suffrage: both lose. Susan B. Anthony forms Equal Rights Association, working for universal suffrage.
Suffrage Movement Divides Over Black vs. Woman Suffrage 1868 Fourteenth amendment ratified. Fifteenth amendment passes Congress, giving the vote to black men. Women petition to be included but are turned down. Formation of New England Woman Suffrage Association. In New Jersey, 172 women attempt to vote; their ballots are ignored.
1869 Frederick Douglass and others back down from woman suffrage to concentrate on fight for black male suffrage. National Woman Suffrage Association formed in May with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as president. American Woman Suffrage Association formed in November with Henry Ward Beecher as president. In England, John Stuart Mill, economist and husband of suffragist Harriet Taylor, publishes On the Subjugation of Women. Wyoming territory grants first woman suffrage since 1807.
Civil Disobedience Is Tried 1870 Fifteenth Amendment ratified. The Grimke sisters, now quite aged, and 42 other women attempt to vote in Massachusetts, their ballots are cast but ignored. Utah territory grants woman suffrage.
1871 The Anti-Suffrage Society is formed.
1872 Susan B. Anthony and supporters arrested for voting. Anthony's sisters and 11 other women held for $500 bail. Anthony herself is held for $1000 bail.
1873 Denied a trial by jury, Anthony loses her case in June and is fined $100 plus costs. Suffrage demonstration at the Centennial of the Boston Tea Party.
1874 Protest at a commemoration of the Battle of Lexington. In Myner v. Happerstett the US Supreme Court decides that being a citizen does not guarantee suffrage. Women's Christian Temperance Union formed.
1876 On July 4, in Philadelphia, Susan B. Anthony reads The Declaration for the Rights of Women from a podium in front of the Liberty Bell. The crowd cheers. Later, the suffragists meet in the historic First Unitarian Church.
1878 Woman suffrage amendment first introduced in US Congress.
1880 Lucretia Mott, born in 1793, dies.
1882 The House and Senate appoint committees on woman suffrage, both report favorably.
1884 Belva Lockwood runs for president. The US House of Representatives debates woman suffrage.
1886 Women protest being excluded from the dedication ceremonies for the Statue of Liberty. Suffrage amendment reaches the US Senate floor, it is defeated two to one.
1887 Utah women lose right to vote.
1890 The NWSA and the AWSA merge to form NAWSA. The focus turns to working at the state level. Campaign loses in South Dakota.
1893 Matilda Joslyn Gage publishes Woman, Church and State. After a vigorous campaign led by Carrie Chapman Catt, Colorado men vote for woman suffrage.
1894 Despite 600,000 signatures, a petition for woman suffrage is ignored in New York. Lucy Stone, born in 1818, dies.
1895 Elizabeth Cady Stanton publishes The Woman's Bible. Utah women regain suffrage.
1896 Idaho grants woman suffrage.
Suffrage Activism Enters the 20th Century 1900 Carrie Chapman Catt takes over the reins of the NASWA.
1902 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, born in 1815, dies.
1906 Susan Brownell Anthony, born in 1820, dies.
1907 Harriet Stanton Blatch, Elizabeth's daughter, forms the Equality League of Self Supporting Women which becomes the Women's Political Union in 1910. She introduces the English suffragists' tactics of parades, street speakers, and pickets.
1910 Washington (state) grants woman suffrage.
1911 California grants woman suffrage. In New York City, 3,000 march for suffrage.
1912 Teddy Roosevelt's Progressive Party includes woman suffrage in their platform. Oregon, Arizona, and Kansas grant woman suffrage.
1913 Women's Suffrage parade on the eve of Wilson's inauguration is attacked by a mob. Hundreds of women are injured, no arrests are made. Alaskan Territory grants suffrage. Illinois grants municipal and presidential but not state suffrage to women.
1916 Alice Paul and others break away from the NASWA and form the National Women's Party.
1917 Beginning in January, NWP posts silent "Sentinels of Liberty" at the White House. In June, the arrests begin. Nearly 500 women are arrested, 168 women serve jail time, some are brutalized by their jailers. North Dakota, Indiana, Nebraska, and Michigan grant presidential suffrage; Arkansas grants primary suffrage. New York, South Dakota, and Oklahoma state constitutions grant suffrage.
1918 The jailed suffragists released from prison. Appellate court rules all the arrests were illegal. President Wilson declares support for suffrage. Suffrage Amendment passes US House with exactly a two-thirds vote but loses by two votes in the Senate.
1919 In January, the NWP lights and guards a "Watchfire for Freedom." It is maintained until the Suffrage Amendment passes US Senate on June 4. The battle for ratification by at least 36 states begins.
1920 The Nineteenth Amendment, called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, is ratified by Tennessee on August 18. It becomes law on August 26.
that took 144 years. methinks you are forgetting your history.
this is what i would have posted yesterday if i were not busy watching football:
PunkDavid wrote:
The equality argument comes in when the exclusive school offers somethingthat is special and cannot be obtained at otehr institutions. Like a military-style education, or back in the 60's, the BEST education in the country.
and he is exactly right. take an institution like curves. it is all women because they want it that way. there are other gyms for men to go to, so there is no reason why they need to go co-ed. additionally, there is nothing special about curves that would make a mn say, "hey, i want in on that".
finally, i went to a college that was all women until the year i started. it is a highly respected teaching college that offers something unique: once you go though the curriculum and graduate, you do not need to take the National teachers exam. There was no huge deal about letting men in, they were right to want access to this exclusivity, and we welcomed them.
you're just really stretching on this one.
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