[harvard] the enormity of the error

Harvard Business School in winter

You could be forgiven for thinking that Harvard had made a marvellous decision and is at the dawn of a new era of prosperity:

Despite the 50-50 leadership split at the Ivies, only 20 percent of US colleges and universities are run by women. Dr. Faust's appointment could have a lasting impact on the gender imbalance among faculty at Harvard, and in the leadership ranks across academia, experts say.

Note the little bit tacked on the end – ‘experts say’? Really and what’s the criterion for expertise in determining ‘gender imbalance’? That’s right – the feministi, at the ready with the free-of-charge-quote. Well let’s hear, for a change from real experts – women involved in the Ivy League.

First off, Sissy Willis has yet another quote from the woman who’s looking worse and worse as she goes along:

"The fascination with war can be 'almost pornographic in its combination of thrill and terror,'" wrote the ivory-tower-bound woman who would be President of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust, in a 2004 article in the journal Civil War History.

Dr. Fausta's own violent, shapeless and meaningless verbal assault on the honorable men and women who make this world safe for her to pursue her muse took our breath away. She is William Arkin with a PhD. It gets worse:

Thus we are the ones who give meaning to war - so it's up to us to come to terms with the power of war stories. "In acknowledging its attraction," she concludes, "we diminish its power" - we move from being part of the problem to part of the solution.

The arrogance is stunning.

Lest you feel that this is one biased lady with a chip on her shoulder, try this, from a Dymphna e-mail she’s kindly allowed me to quote from:

It's viscerally sickening. This stuff makes me feel impotent. These women are not going to just age out and retire – they have recruits who will follow in their footsteps.

Ever since that woman had to flee Larry Summers' speech because she was "so upset" I have been amazed at how the events flowed from that. She should have been laughed out of Harvard for being so emotional re a philosophical *inquiry* but instead Larry Summers let them nail his family jewels to a chair.

*He* should have left as soon as he started being mau-maued. Maybe he was too close to the situation to see that he was being stripped and the fems had their spike and hammer ready. I will never, ever understand why he stayed till the bitter end and kissed gluteus maximus for months. He sure didn't do real feminism any favors because now we're stuck with these nasty specimens.

Women like this don't get it ... it's a law of human culture that when women begin to dominate a field, men slowly drift away. Female undergraduates are in the majority now (but not in the sciences, of course). Makes you wonder where all the men are.

Also makes you wonder about the rising phenomenon of "mean girls." They're really increasing. The B and I had no idea or we'd have tried to arm the future Baron for those encounters. Girls sure have changed, and not for the better. I think it's a culture-wide happening. On both sides of the divide.

If I knew Larry Summers' address I'd send him a deeply-felt sympathy card.

Let’s look at the bona fides of the two women making these allegations. This is Sisu. A glance at her post titles says all that’s necessary about her capacity to reason. As for Dymphna, Gates of Vienna needs no comment from me. Plus these two are close to the action over there on an almost daily basis.

It's time we all woke up, from whichever country we blog from, as to what's going down here.